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authorDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2010-07-05 20:40:33 +0100
committerDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2010-07-14 23:06:17 +0100
commit4c74a7df3242aa95d62dcfbcc231b8a55cc03c59 (patch)
tree40e1d5a912f0d7cfb9868075dda2ee1c5dcfcb7a /hv.c
parente3d2b9e76ba8553f994404cc1438760e83dd8b76 (diff)
downloadperl-4c74a7df3242aa95d62dcfbcc231b8a55cc03c59.tar.gz
protect CvSTASH weakref with backrefs
Each CV usually has a pointer, CvSTASH, back to the stash that it was complied in. This pointer isn't reference counted, to avoid loops. Which can leave it dangling if the stash is deleted. There is already protection for the similar GvSTASH field in GVs: the stash has an array of backrefs, xhv_backreferences, pointing to the GVs whose GvSTASHes point to it, and which is used to zero all the GvSTASH fields should the stash be deleted. All this patch does is also add the CVs with CvSTASH to that stash's backref list too.
Diffstat (limited to 'hv.c')
-rw-r--r--hv.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hv.c b/hv.c
index f94d6d45dd..b47b83a185 100644
--- a/hv.c
+++ b/hv.c
@@ -1709,7 +1709,7 @@ S_hfreeentries(pTHX_ HV *hv)
HE *entry;
struct mro_meta *meta;
struct xpvhv_aux * const iter = HvAUX(hv);
- SV *const av = iter->xhv_backreferences;
+ AV *const av = iter->xhv_backreferences;
if (av) {
Perl_sv_kill_backrefs(aTHX_ MUTABLE_SV(hv), av);