New submission from John-Mark Bell:
In low-memory scenarios, the Python 2.7 interpreter may crash as a result of
failing to correctly check the return value from mmap in new_arena().
This changeset appears to be the point at which this issue was introduced:
Changes by Ned Deily n...@acm.org:
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http://bugs.python.org/issue21810
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Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 012b5c9c062d by Charles-François Natali in branch '2.7':
Issue #21810: Backport mmap-based arena allocation failure check.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/012b5c9c062d
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Charles-François Natali added the comment:
Thanks for the report.
The patch introducing mmap() to limit memory fragmentation was applied
initially only to the Python 3 branch (3.2 at that time IIRC). This problem was
spotted a couple days later, and fixed:
