gh-96821: Fix undefined behaviour in _testcapimodule.c (GH-96915) (G…

…H-96927) * gh-96821: Assert for demonstrating undefined behaviour * Fix UB (cherry picked from commit cbdeda8) Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Matthias Görgens <[email protected]>
python · Oct 22, 2022 · 9e008fe · 9e008fe
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-09-18-08-47-40.gh-issue-96821.Co2iOq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2022-09-18-08-47-40.gh-issue-96821.Co2iOq.rst
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+Fix undefined behaviour in ``_testcapimodule.c``.
diff --git a/Modules/_testcapimodule.c b/Modules/_testcapimodule.c
@@ -5576,8 +5576,10 @@ meth_fastcall_keywords(PyObject* self, PyObject* const* args,
     if (pyargs == NULL) {
         return NULL;
     }
+    assert(args != NULL || nargs == 0);
+    PyObject* const* args_offset = args == NULL ? NULL : args + nargs;
     PyObject *pykwargs = PyObject_Vectorcall((PyObject*)&PyDict_Type,
-                                              args + nargs, 0, kwargs);
+                                              args_offset, 0, kwargs);
     return Py_BuildValue("NNN", _null_to_none(self), pyargs, pykwargs);
 }