[3.12] gh-108987: Fix _thread.start_new_thread() race condition (#109135) #110342
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…n#109135) Fix _thread.start_new_thread() race condition. If a thread is created during Python finalization, the newly spawned thread now exits immediately instead of trying to access freed memory and lead to a crash. thread_run() calls PyEval_AcquireThread() which checks if the thread must exit. The problem was that tstate was dereferenced earlier in _PyThreadState_Bind() which leads to a crash most of the time. Move _PyThreadState_CheckConsistency() from thread_run() to _PyThreadState_Bind(). (cherry picked from commit 517cd82)
This was referenced Oct 4, 2023
…e using raw memory allocator (python#109808) (cherry picked from commit 1b8f236)
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Fix _thread.start_new_thread() race condition. If a thread is created during Python finalization, the newly spawned thread now exits immediately instead of trying to access freed memory and lead to a crash.
thread_run() calls PyEval_AcquireThread() which checks if the thread must exit. The problem was that tstate was dereferenced earlier in _PyThreadState_Bind() which leads to a crash most of the time.
Move _PyThreadState_CheckConsistency() from thread_run() to _PyThreadState_Bind().
(cherry picked from commit 517cd82)