On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Elmir.
>
> I would say that it should work, however, subtle bugs are a bit expected.
>
> Cool! We should try to fix the bug!


> I'm happy to help you debug it, let me know how I can reproduce it.
>


The bug is pretty simple to reproduce, basically doing this query will show
the bug:

l = ldap.initialize(SERVER)
l.simple_bind()
res = l.search_s(BASE_DN,
                 ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE,
                 FILTER,
                 ["uid", "cn"]) # <-- these string will be mangled

Here is the complete script which shows the bug:
https://gist.github.com/elmirjagudin/6d7aadaa1825901ed73d

The error happens in the python-ldap C code that converts ["uid", "cn"]
array to char **.

In this file:
http://python-ldap.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/python-ldap/python-ldap/Modules/LDAPObject.c?revision=1.91&view=markup

in function attrs_from_List() there is this code (lines 289-290):

289:     attrs[i] = PyString_AsString(item);
290:      Py_DECREF(item);

On line 289 the assigned string is correct, however after executing line
290, the string will be corrupted.

I have noticed that under cpython, the refcount for 'item' is larger then
1. However under pypy it is always 1, and I guess after decreasing it, the
'item' is freed, and attrs[i] pointer becomes invalid.

I don't know enough about python extension C API to know if this is a
problem in python-ldap C code, or in the pypy code. Any help is appreciated!

A general question, does pypy strive to be compatible with the API defined
here: https://docs.python.org/2/c-api/ ?

Thanks in advance,
Elmir

>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Elmir Jagudin <el...@unity3d.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to run an application under pypy that authenticates user with
> > LDAP.
> >
> > It is using python-ldap module and it fails to lookup the users. The
> problem
> > is in python-ldap's c extension code. When it converts the LDAP search
> query
> > from python format to C, parts of the query are corrupted.
> >
> > Is python-ldap supposed to work under pypy? How compatible is the python
> C
> > API between cpython and pypy?
> >
> > Right now I can't figure out if this is a bug in python-ldap code or an
> > compatibility with Pypy C API.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Elmir Jagudin
> >
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