segfaults with unexpanded $Revision$ id's in release candidate tarballs

[doko42]

BPO	12221
Nosy	@birkenfeld, @doko42, @vstinner, @benjaminp, @skrah

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2011-06-01.01:52:21.065>
created_at = <Date 2011-05-31.08:47:43.236>
labels = ['build', 'type-crash']
title = "segfaults with unexpanded $Revision$ id's in release candidate tarballs"
updated_at = <Date 2011-06-01.01:52:21.064>
user = 'https://github.com/doko42'

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actor = 'python-dev'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2011-06-01.01:52:21.065>
closer = 'python-dev'
components = ['Build']
creation = <Date 2011-05-31.08:47:43.236>
creator = 'doko'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 12221
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message_count = 5.0
messages = ['137347', '137349', '137404', '137406', '137411']
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nosy_names = ['georg.brandl', 'doko', 'vstinner', 'benjamin.peterson', 'skrah', 'python-dev']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'crash'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue12221'
versions = ['Python 3.1', 'Python 2.7', 'Python 3.2']

[doko42]

Modules/pyexpat.c (get_version_string) has:

static PyObject *
get_version_string(void)
{
    static char *rcsid = "$Revision$";
    char *rev = rcsid;
    int i = 0;

while (!isdigit(Py_CHARMASK(*rev)))
    ++rev;

which segfaults, or has unexpected results. -O2 builds don't show the segfaults, but at least debug builds on sparc, ARM, powerpc, m68k.

>>> pyexpat.__version__
'0\x05'

seen with all the current release candidates for 2.7.2, 3.1.4 and 3.2.1
2.5.6 and 2.6.7 don't have this issue.

other occurrences:

./setup.py:version = "$Revision$"
./Demo/scripts/newslist.py:# Newslist $Revision$
./Demo/scripts/newslist.py:rcsrev = '$Revision$'
./configure.in:AC_REVISION($Revision$)
./Tools/webchecker/websucker.py:version = "$Revision$"
./Tools/webchecker/webchecker.py:version = "$Revision$"
./Tools/world/world:version = '$Revision$'
./Parser/asdl_c.py: # Value of version: "$Revision$"
./Parser/Python.asdl:module Python version "$Revision$"
./Modules/pyexpat.c: static char *rcsid = "$Revision$";
./Lib/tkinter/init.py:version = "$Revision$"
./Lib/pickle.py:version = "$Revision$" # Code version
./Lib/xml/parsers/expat.py:version = '$Revision$'
./Lib/pydoc.py:version = "$Revision$"
./Lib/tarfile.py:version = "$Revision$"

[skrah]

See also: bpo-11439

[python-dev]

New changeset 9c1116e582e3 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7':
simply use the Python version for pyexpat.__version__ bpo-12221
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9c1116e582e3

New changeset 9c23efa3f5c7 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.1':
simply use the Python version for pyexpat.__version__ bpo-12221
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9c23efa3f5c7

New changeset f2f74b8d6767 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.2':
merge 3.1 (bpo-12221)
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f2f74b8d6767

New changeset d1291e048163 by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'default':
merge 3.2 (bpo-12221)
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d1291e048163

[benjaminp]

I've fixed the pyexpat.__version__ from segfaulting. The other ones are harmless and can be removed later.

[python-dev]

New changeset f3553d5083f8 by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'default':
remove __version__s dependent on subversion keyword expansion (closes bpo-12221)
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f3553d5083f8