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bpo-21983: Fix a crash in ctypes.cast() in case the type argument is a ctypes structured data type. #3859

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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions Lib/ctypes/test/test_cast.py
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Expand Up @@ -82,5 +82,18 @@ def test_wchar_p(self):
self.assertEqual(cast(cast(s, c_void_p), c_wchar_p).value,
"hiho")

def test_bad_type_arg(self):
# The type argument must be a ctypes pointer type.
array_type = c_byte * sizeof(c_int)
array = array_type()
self.assertRaises(TypeError, cast, array, None)
self.assertRaises(TypeError, cast, array, array_type)
class Struct(Structure):
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I don't know if cpython does this, but linking to the bug number in the test might be nice.

_fields_ = [("a", c_int)]
self.assertRaises(TypeError, cast, array, Struct)
class MyUnion(Union):
_fields_ = [("a", c_int)]
self.assertRaises(TypeError, cast, array, MyUnion)

if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()
2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-02-21-02-14.bpo-21983.UoC319.rst
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Fix a crash in `ctypes.cast()` in case the type argument is a ctypes
structured data type. Patch by Eryk Sun and Oren Milman.
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c
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Expand Up @@ -5319,7 +5319,7 @@ cast_check_pointertype(PyObject *arg)
if (PyCFuncPtrTypeObject_Check(arg))
return 1;
dict = PyType_stgdict(arg);
if (dict) {
if (dict != NULL && dict->proto != NULL) {
if (PyUnicode_Check(dict->proto)
&& (strchr("sPzUZXO", PyUnicode_AsUTF8(dict->proto)[0]))) {
/* simple pointer types, c_void_p, c_wchar_p, BSTR, ... */
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