[2.7] bpo-31675: Fix memory leaks in Tkinter's methods splitlist() and split() (GH-3866) (#3876)

when pass a string larger than 2 GiB.

Decrease memory requirements for Tcl's bigmem tests..
(cherry picked from commit 27c623c8)

Lib/test/test_tcl.py

@@ -705,25 +705,25 @@ class BigmemTclTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.check_huge_string_builtins(value)
 
     def check_huge_string_builtins(self, value):
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.tk.getint, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.tk.getdouble, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.tk.getboolean, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.eval, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.evalfile, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.record, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.adderrorinfo, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.setvar, value, 'x', 'a')
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.setvar, 'x', value, 'a')
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.unsetvar, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.unsetvar, 'x', value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.adderrorinfo, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.exprstring, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.exprlong, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.exprboolean, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.splitlist, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.split, value)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.createcommand, value, max)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.deletecommand, value)
+        tk = self.interp.tk
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.getint, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.getdouble, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.getboolean, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.eval, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.evalfile, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.record, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.adderrorinfo, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.setvar, value, 'x', 'a')
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.setvar, 'x', value, 'a')
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.unsetvar, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.unsetvar, 'x', value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.exprstring, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.exprlong, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.exprboolean, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.splitlist, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.split, value)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.createcommand, value, max)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, tk.deletecommand, value)
 
 
 def setUpModule():

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-03-15-06-24.bpo-31675.Nh7jJ3.rst

+Fixed memory leaks in Tkinter's methods splitlist() and split() when pass a
+string larger than 2 GiB.

Modules/_tkinter.c

@@ -2332,7 +2332,11 @@ Tkapp_SplitList(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "et:splitlist", "utf-8", &list))
         return NULL;
 
-    CHECK_STRING_LENGTH(list);
+    if (strlen(list) >= INT_MAX) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError, "string is too long");
+        PyMem_Free(list);
+        return NULL;
+    }
     if (Tcl_SplitList(Tkapp_Interp(self), list,
                       &argc, &argv) == TCL_ERROR)  {
         PyMem_Free(list);
@@ -2394,7 +2398,11 @@ Tkapp_Split(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "et:split", "utf-8", &list))
         return NULL;
-    CHECK_STRING_LENGTH(list);
+    if (strlen(list) >= INT_MAX) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError, "string is too long");
+        PyMem_Free(list);
+        return NULL;
+    }
     v = Split(list);
     PyMem_Free(list);
     return v;