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gh-159739: Preserve ctypes base metadata when cloning fails - #160174

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When creating a ctypes structure subclass, cloning its layout initially copied pointers to buffers owned by the base class. If a later allocation failed, cleaning up the subclass could free those buffers, leaving the base with invalid metadata and potentially causing a crash. Detach the owned pointers until their copies have been allocated. Backport to 3.15 and 3.14.

When creating a ctypes structure subclass, cloning its layout initially copied pointers to buffers owned by the base class. If a later allocation failed, cleaning up the subclass could free those buffers, leaving the base with invalid metadata and potentially causing a crash. Detach the owned pointers until their copies have been allocated. Backport to 3.15 and 3.14.
@JelleZijlstra JelleZijlstra added needs backport to 3.14 bugs and security fixes needs backport to 3.15 bugs and security fixes labels Oct 22, 2026
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Thanks @jelle-openai for the PR, and @JelleZijlstra for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.14, 3.15.
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GH-160293 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.15 branch.

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GH-160294 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch.

@bedevere-app bedevere-app Bot removed the needs backport to 3.14 bugs and security fixes label Oct 22, 2026
JelleZijlstra pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 22, 2026
…H-160174) (#160293)

When creating a ctypes structure subclass, cloning its layout initially copied pointers to buffers owned by the base class. If a later allocation failed, cleaning up the subclass could free those buffers, leaving the base with invalid metadata and potentially causing a crash. Detach the owned pointers until their copies have been allocated. Backport to 3.15 and 3.14.
(cherry picked from commit 7c87319)

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle@openai.com>
JelleZijlstra pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 22, 2026
…H-160174) (#160294)

When creating a ctypes structure subclass, cloning its layout initially copied pointers to buffers owned by the base class. If a later allocation failed, cleaning up the subclass could free those buffers, leaving the base with invalid metadata and potentially causing a crash. Detach the owned pointers until their copies have been allocated. Backport to 3.15 and 3.14.
(cherry picked from commit 7c87319)

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle@openai.com>
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