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authorAnton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>2020-06-15 22:58:49 +0200
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2020-06-16 08:02:02 -0300
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python/notmuch2: do not destroy messages owned by a query
Any messages retrieved from a query - either directly via search_messages() or indirectly via thread objects - are owned by that query. Retrieving the same message (i.e. corresponding to the same message ID / database object) several times will always yield the same C object. The caller is allowed to destroy message objects owned by a query before the query itself - which can save memory for long-lived queries. However, that message must then never be retrieved again from that query. The python-notmuch2 bindings will currently destroy every message object in Message._destroy(), which will lead to an invalid free if the same message is then retrieved again. E.g. the following python program leads to libtalloc abort()ing: import notmuch2 db = notmuch2.Database(mode = notmuch2.Database.MODE.READ_ONLY) t = next(db.threads('*')) msgs = list(zip(t.toplevel(), t.toplevel())) msgs = list(zip(t.toplevel(), t.toplevel())) Fix this issue by creating a subclass of Message, which is used for "standalone" message which have to be freed by the caller. Message class is then used only for messages descended from a query, which do not need to be freed by the caller.
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