bpo-33623: Fix possible SIGSGV when asyncio.Future is created in __de…

…l__ (GH-7080)

(cherry picked from commit 35230d0)

Co-authored-by: Yury Selivanov <yury@magic.io>

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-23-14-58-05.bpo-33623.wAw1cF.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix possible SIGSGV when asyncio.Future is created in __del__

Modules/_asynciomodule.c

@@ -501,7 +501,13 @@ future_init(FutureObj *fut, PyObject *loop)
     if (is_true < 0) {
         return -1;
     }
-    if (is_true) {
+    if (is_true && !_Py_IsFinalizing()) {
+        /* Only try to capture the traceback if the interpreter is not being
+           finalized.  The original motivation to add a `_Py_IsFinalizing()`
+           call was to prevent SIGSEGV when a Future is created in a __del__
+           method, which is called during the interpreter shutdown and the
+           traceback module is already unloaded.
+        */
         fut->fut_source_tb = _PyObject_CallNoArg(traceback_extract_stack);
         if (fut->fut_source_tb == NULL) {
             return -1;