https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/01157e0cdff1321a065b0a00c5a97460f52af07e
commit: 01157e0cdff1321a065b0a00c5a97460f52af07e
branch: main
author: Petr Viktorin <[email protected]>
committer: encukou <[email protected]>
date: 2025-09-30T16:43:49+02:00
summary:

gh-139116: tracemalloc: Detach thread state when acquiring tables_lock 
(GH-139449)

* gh-139116: tracemalloc: Detach thread state when acquiring tables_lock

This prevents a deadlock when:

- One thread is in `_PyTraceMalloc_Stop`, with `TABLES_LOCK` held, calling
  `PyRefTracer_SetTracer` which wants to stop the world
- Another is thread in `PyTraceMalloc_Track`, just attached thread state, 
waiting
  for `TABLES_LOCK`

Detaching the thread state while waiting for `TABLES_LOCK` allows
`PyRefTracer_SetTracer` to stop the world.


Co-authored-by: Peter Bierma <[email protected]>

files:
A 
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-09-30-14-57-19.gh-issue-139116.nlVf40.rst
M Python/tracemalloc.c

diff --git 
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-09-30-14-57-19.gh-issue-139116.nlVf40.rst
 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-09-30-14-57-19.gh-issue-139116.nlVf40.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..00692e97c44fb5
--- /dev/null
+++ 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-09-30-14-57-19.gh-issue-139116.nlVf40.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Prevent a deadlock when multiple threads start, stop and use :mod:`tracemalloc`
+simultaneously.
diff --git a/Python/tracemalloc.c b/Python/tracemalloc.c
index 7066a214f1065b..7a0853b6a07f55 100644
--- a/Python/tracemalloc.c
+++ b/Python/tracemalloc.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static int _PyTraceMalloc_TraceRef(PyObject *op, 
PyRefTracerEvent event,
    the GIL held from PyMem_RawFree(). It cannot acquire the lock because it
    would introduce a deadlock in _PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent(). */
 #define tables_lock _PyRuntime.tracemalloc.tables_lock
-#define TABLES_LOCK() PyMutex_LockFlags(&tables_lock, _Py_LOCK_DONT_DETACH)
+#define TABLES_LOCK() PyMutex_Lock(&tables_lock)
 #define TABLES_UNLOCK() PyMutex_Unlock(&tables_lock)
 
 

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