BUG: Fix use-after-free in _HelperInputVoidPtr properties#1629
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Might be worth a comment if possible, so that humans and bots don't think this code is dead code.
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Backport failed for Please cherry-pick the changes locally and resolve any conflicts. git fetch origin 12.9.x
git worktree add -d .worktree/backport-1629-to-12.9.x origin/12.9.x
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* BUG: Fix use-after-free in _HelperInputVoidPtr properties * Revert cptr ref * Apply suggestion from @mdboom
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While working on #1616, I discovered a use-after-free bug in how
void *properties are handled by one of our generators (affecting driver/runtime/nvrtc).If a
void *property value is set to a Python buffer, the reference to that buffer is not held, so if the buffer is independently free'd elsewhere, the pointer becomes dangling. The new unit test here hopefully illustrates the problem.There is a related bug in
_HelperInputVoidPtrPtrthat references to each of the individual buffers are not held so could also get freed early. That bug is less critical since we don't currently use them as properties, only as variables within function calls, so it's actually hard to trigger that bug from the outside. But I thought we should fix it while we are here so it isn't a latent bug if we ever do add support forvoid **properties.