[BUG] Segmentation fault when running pylint via prospector and importing cartopy

[pmav99]

When using pylint on a module that imports cartopy, prospector throws a segmentation fault. Running pylint on its own finishes without problems:

$ python --version
Python 3.8.6

$ cat foo.py 
import cartopy.crs as ccrs

$ python foo.py && echo "OK"
OK

$ pylint foo.py 
************* Module foo
foo.py:1:0: C0102: Black listed name "foo" (blacklisted-name)
foo.py:1:0: C0114: Missing module docstring (missing-module-docstring)
foo.py:1:0: W0611: Unused cartopy.crs imported as ccrs (unused-import)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Your code has been rated at -20.00/10 (previous run: -10.00/10, -10.00)

$ prospector -t pylint foo.py 
[1]    200876 segmentation fault (core dumped)  prospector foo.py

pyproject.toml

cat pyproject.toml 
[tool.poetry]
name = "pylint_bug"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["Panos Mavrogiorgos <pmav99@gmail.com>"]

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "^3.8"
prospector = {version = "^1.3.1", extras = ["all"]}
Cartopy = "^0.18.0"

[tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]

[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

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[pmav99]

I used a debugger to find out where the segmentation fault happens. It seems that pylint follows a different code path when it is being run on its own VS when it is being run under prospector.

When prospector is used, an instance of Proj4Error is created here:
https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/blob/869b851169150de2d9208741504d267a43a190ac/astroid/raw_building.py#L248
Creating an instance of Proj4Error does throw a segmentation fault and this is a cartopy bug. I opened a ticket for that on cartopy's bugtracker.

Nevertheless, that line is not executed when using plain pylint, at least not for Proj4Error, and the different execution paths might indicate some problem in prospector too.

[carlio]

Thanks for the detailed investigation!

Out of curiosity - does prospector also segfault if you run it only with pylint? (prospector -t pylint). That'd help figure out if other default tools are conflicting in some way or if it's specific to prospector's use of pylint.

[pmav99]

@carlio yes it does.

[carlio]

@pmav99 I just tried to reproduce this locally and it does not seem to happen for me, using the exact requirements.txt you provided. Are you still having this issue? I will close it as it's quite old now (I'm doing some tidying up) but if it's still broken for you please just re-open.

[carlio]

Never mind just managed to repro it!

[carlio]

Ok, tracked the issue down. The fix will go out with the 1.7.1 release shortly.