Re: [PATCH] Fix two Python calls that don't check for errors

[Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>]

Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

> PyModule_AddObject steals a reference on success, but not on error,
> which is why we have gdb_pymodule_addobject.  I found one spot still
> calling the former, which could in theory leak memory on failure.
> This patch fixes this.
>
> In the same function I found an unchecked call to
> PyDict_SetItemString.  This patch fixes this as well.

Thanks for fixing this.

Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Andrew

> ---
>  gdb/python/py-disasm.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/python/py-disasm.c b/gdb/python/py-disasm.c
> index 0af089f6b3e..6f0fed137e6 100644
> --- a/gdb/python/py-disasm.c
> +++ b/gdb/python/py-disasm.c
> @@ -1647,11 +1647,15 @@ gdbpy_initialize_disasm ()
>    gdb_disassembler_module = PyModule_Create (&python_disassembler_module_def);
>    if (gdb_disassembler_module == nullptr)
>      return -1;
> -  PyModule_AddObject(gdb_module, "disassembler", gdb_disassembler_module);
> +  if (gdb_pymodule_addobject (gdb_module, "disassembler",
> +			      gdb_disassembler_module) < 0)
> +    return -1;
>  
>    /* This is needed so that 'import _gdb.disassembler' will work.  */
>    PyObject *dict = PyImport_GetModuleDict ();
> -  PyDict_SetItemString (dict, "_gdb.disassembler", gdb_disassembler_module);
> +  if (PyDict_SetItemString (dict, "_gdb.disassembler",
> +			    gdb_disassembler_module) < 0)
> +    return -1;
>  
>    for (int i = 0; i <= (int) dis_style_comment_start; ++i)
>      {
> -- 
> 2.40.1