sqlite crashes with converters mutating cursor

[sir-sigurd]

BPO	36073
Nosy	@berkerpeksag, @sir-sigurd, @erlend-aasland
PRs	bpo-36073: Raise ProgrammingError on recursive usage of cursors in sqlite converters #11984 gh-80254: Disallow recursive usage of cursors in sqlite3 converters #29054

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created_at = <Date 2019-02-22.07:44:47.863>
labels = ['extension-modules', '3.7', '3.8', 'type-crash']
title = 'sqlite crashes with converters mutating cursor'
updated_at = <Date 2021-10-19.09:48:51.905>
user = 'https://github.com/sir-sigurd'

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[sir-sigurd]

It's somewhat similar to bpo-10811, but for converter function:

In [197]: import sqlite3 as sqlite
...: con = sqlite.connect(':memory:', detect_types=sqlite.PARSE_COLNAMES)
...: cur = con.cursor()
...: sqlite.converters['CURSOR_INIT'] = lambda x: cur.__init__(con)
...:
...: cur.execute('create table test(x foo)')
...: cur.execute('insert into test(x) values (?)', ('foo',))
...: cur.execute('select x as "x [CURSOR_INIT]", x from test')
...:
[1] 25718 segmentation fault python manage.py shell

Similar to bpo-10811, proposed patch raises ProgrammingError instead of crashing.

[erlend-aasland]

After #72071 (bpo-44976) there is no longer a segfault.

I suggest to expand the test suite with the reproducer Sergey provided.

[erlend-aasland]

Er, a little bit too fast there. There is still a crash, but it is of course postponed bco. bpo-44976. New reproducer:

import sqlite3 as sqlite
con = sqlite.connect(':memory:', detect_types=sqlite.PARSE_COLNAMES)
cur = con.cursor()
sqlite.converters['CURSOR_INIT'] = lambda x: cur.__init__(con)

cur.execute('create table test(x foo)')
cur.execute('insert into test(x) values (?)', ('foo',))
for row in cur.execute('select x as "x [CURSOR_INIT]", x from test'):
print(row)