Release PickleBuffer outside its lock by youknowdot · Pull Request #9587 · RustPython/RustPython

youknowdot · 2026-11-03T11:54:57Z

Summary

Detach the owned PyBuffer while holding the PickleBuffer write lock, then drop it after releasing the lock. Dropping its final share can invoke a Python __release_buffer__ hook; a hook that reenters the same PickleBuffer would otherwise try to acquire the held lock and deadlock.

Existing shares cloned before release remain alive, and a concurrent access after the take observes the released state. The change does not address the separate PickleBuffer GC-traversal expected failure.

Behavior difference

This is a narrow deadlock fix, not exact CPython callback-state parity. CPython 3.15's PyBuffer_Release invokes the exporter hook before clearing view.obj. This change publishes the released state first, so a reentrant raw() or buffer acquisition observes a released PickleBuffer and another release() is inert. Reconstructing a usable acquisition during the callback is not known to be safe with RustPython's final-share release latch and would need separate ownership work.

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Independently source-reviewed for last-share release, reentrancy, and concurrent get/release ordering.
prek run --files crates/stdlib/src/pickle.rs, normal commit hooks and git diff --check passed.
Native RustPython compilation and execution were not run locally; hosted CI is required. Existing test_picklebuffer.test_release covers basic release and idempotency, but no existing test identified directly exercises release-hook reentrancy. That behavior remains an execution-coverage gap.

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Bug Fixes
- Buffer release now completes its state update before cleanup callbacks run, helping avoid interference between buffer cleanup and other operations. The buffer is marked as released before its final cleanup, so subsequent operations can observe the updated state even while cleanup is in progress.

Detach the buffer under the lock and drop it afterward so a final-share Python release callback can reenter without deadlocking. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex:model version not exposed

coderabbitai · 2026-11-03T11:55:04Z

Walkthrough

PyPickleBuffer.release now takes the buffer out of its write lock and drops it after the lock is released. This marks the buffer as released before a possible __release_buffer__ callback runs.

Changes: Pickle buffer release

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release the buffer outside the lock `crates/stdlib/src/pickle.rs`	`PyPickleBuffer.release` takes the buffer while holding the write lock, then drops it after releasing the lock. The released state is set before a possible `__release_buffer__` callback runs.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

CPython 3.15 pickle-semantics update — This change updates PickleBuffer release handling, which is one part of the broader standard-library update.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to ea3c4

The change prevents release hooks from deadlocking when they reenter the same PickleBuffer. It is mergeable after normal checks; a regression snippet would help preserve this behavior.

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codspeed · 2026-11-03T15:03:54Z

Merging this PR will not alter performance

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Add a snippet for a reentrant final-share release.

120-121: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Add a snippet for a reentrant final-share release.

PickleBuffer.release() in crates/stdlib/src/pickle.rs:117-122 takes the buffer under the write lock and drops it after the lock is released. A __release_buffer__ hook that calls release() or raw() on the same PickleBuffer depends on this ordering. No checked-in Python test references PickleBuffer. A change that drops the buffer under the write lock would therefore not fail a checked-in test. On RustPython, the regression would hang the snippet instead of failing an assertion.

Add a file under extra_tests/snippets/. The harness runs every snippet on CPython and RustPython. Guard the nested assertions with sys.implementation.name == "rustpython", as existing snippets do. The nested raw() result reflects RustPython's released-state behavior, which differs from CPython 3.15.
Snippet sketch
import pickle
import sys

events = []
pb = None


class Exporter:
    def __init__(self):
        self.data = bytearray(b"abc")

    def __buffer__(self, flags):
        return memoryview(self.data)

    def __release_buffer__(self, view):
        events.append("hook")
        if sys.implementation.name == "rustpython":
            pb.release()
            events.append("nested release")
            try:
                pb.raw()
            except ValueError:
                events.append("nested raw ValueError")


pb = pickle.PickleBuffer(Exporter())
pb.release()
assert events[0] == "hook"
if sys.implementation.name == "rustpython":
    assert events == ["hook", "nested release", "nested raw ValueError"]
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Review comment at @crates/stdlib/src/pickle.rs around lines 120 - 121:
Add a Python snippet exercising reentrant final-share release for
PickleBuffer.release: have an exporter’s __release_buffer__ hook call release()
and raw() on the same PickleBuffer. Guard RustPython-specific nested assertions
with sys.implementation.name, and verify the hook and released-state behavior
without requiring CPython’s raw() behavior to match.

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Detach the buffer under the lock and drop it afterward so a final-share Python release callback can reenter without deadlocking. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex:model version not exposed

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