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This change must not merge before #9600. Copying traceback or copying or clearing cause and context can release values whose finalizers reenter the same exception; the current setters drop those values while holding their locks. #9600 moves those releases outside the locks. The combined source has been independently reviewed; this dependency remains until #9600 is actually merged.
Summary
Derive a nonempty subgroup whenever the group itself does not match, including when every child matches. A direct match on the group still returns it unchanged.
Release the source notes reference after copying and before assigning the copy, matching finalizer ordering.
Copy exception-group metadata through the shared derivation helper: preserve traceback, copy or clear cause and context, and copy sequence notes to an independent list. This also affects split(), which uses the same helper.
Reproduced the reported subclass behavior on the verified CPython 3.15.0 runtime. Additional CPython checks confirmed derive call order, direct whole-group identity, independent notes copying, and clearing of a custom derive result's cause and context.
Compared the implementation with CPython 3.15.0 Objects/exceptions.c; independent source review covered recursion guarding, empty and direct-match cases, metadata, subclass behavior, and the shared split path.
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Rebuild nonempty subgroups when the group itself does not match, even if all of its children match. Copy the original group metadata when deriving.
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Review comments at @crates/vm/src/exception_group.rs:
- Around line 492-493: Update the metadata replacement used by
derived.base.set_context and derived.base.set_cause so any replaced value is
released only after its write lock has been dropped. Apply the change in the
corresponding setters, preserving their existing assignment and suppression
behavior.
Walkthrough
Subgroup processing now derives a group when matching exceptions exist instead of returning the original group when children were unchanged. Derived groups also copy traceback, context, cause, and sequence-valued notes.
Changes: Exception group behavior
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Subgroup derivation and attributes crates/vm/src/exception_group.rs
Subgroup processing no longer returns the original group based on whether children changed. It derives a group when matches exist. Derived groups receive traceback, context, and cause values, including absent values, and copy notes when they are sequences other than dicts.
A custom exception-group subclass can hang subgroup() or split() when replaced metadata runs a finalizer that accesses the same group. Release replaced metadata outside the locks before merging.
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The title "Derive matching exception subgroups" is related to the main change. The PR makes BaseExceptionGroup.subgroup derive a new group when some children match, even if the group itself does not m…
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Linked issue #9576 is the only active direct target. Its coding requirements are: (1) when the group itself does not match, subgroup() must rebuild the group through derive() if any leaf matches, even…
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All changes are in crates/vm/src/exception_group.rs. Each change relates to the issue or to the PR's stated objectives:
1. Removal of the modified flag and early return in subgroup(). This is the…
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The title "Derive matching exception subgroups" is related to the main change. The PR makes BaseExceptionGroup.subgroup derive a new group when some children match, even if the group itself does not match, and it also changes the shared derivation helper that copies metadata. The title names the core behavior (deriving subgroups for matching exceptions) without listing files, and it is short and specific. It does not mention the metadata-copying change, which is a secondary aspect of the PR.
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Linked issue #9576 is the only active direct target. Its coding requirements are: (1) when the group itself does not match, subgroup() must rebuild the group through derive() if any leaf matches, even when all leaves match; (2) a direct match on the group must still return the group unchanged; (3) subgroup() and split() must rebuild matching nested groups consistently.
Evidence at head 5f04095: the modified flag and its early return Ok(zelf.into()) are removed from subgroup() in crates/vm/src/exception_group.rs. The direct match check at the top of subgroup() still returns zelf_obj unchanged (requirement 2). When matching is non-empty, subgroup() calls derive_and_copy_attributes, so a fully matching nested subclass group is rebuilt (requirement 1). split() already calls the same helper for match and rest parts, so both paths now use the same derivation (requirement 3).
Tracing the reproducer from #9576 against this code: inner.subgroup(ValueError) reaches the derive path, and MyEG does not override derive, so the result is a base ExceptionGroup. The split() path produces a new ExceptionGroup at m.exceptions[0], not inner. This matches the expected output in the issue.
Unresolved: the author did not build the crate or run test_exception_group. Compilation of the new calls (set_traceback, set_context, set_cause, extract_elements_sized, sequence_unchecked) was not verified in this review. The PR also states it must not merge before #9600. That is a merge gate, not a coding requirement of #9576, so it was not assessed here.
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All changes are in crates/vm/src/exception_group.rs. Each change relates to the issue or to the PR's stated objectives:
Removal of the modified flag and early return in subgroup(). This is the core fix for #9576.
derive_and_copy_attributes now sets traceback, context, and cause through typed setters. It copies __notes__ when the value is a non-dict sequence, and it releases the source notes reference before assigning the copy. This helper is shared by subgroup() and split(), so the metadata change follows directly from the derivation path that #9576 targets. The PR objectives state this metadata behavior explicitly.
The linked issue does not itself require the metadata changes. They align the helper with CPython's exceptions.c behavior, as the PR describes. No change was found that is unrelated to the subgroup or split derivation path. No test files were changed.
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Land lock-safe setters before unconditionally clearing metadata
If a custom derive() returns a globally retained group whose context or cause is the last reference to an exception with a reentrant __del__, these new unconditional clears can deadlock the default threaded interpreter. PyBaseException::set_context and set_cause in crates/vm/src/exceptions.rs:750–757 still drop the replaced exception while holding the field's write lock, so a finalizer that reads the derived group's same attribute blocks forever during split() or subgroup(). The previous helper skipped these setters when the source field was None, so clearing introduces a new path to this failure. Include the lock-safe setter prerequisite, or move the replaced values' destruction outside their locks, before enabling these clears.
Add a regression test for nested subclass subgroup() derivation.
When every leaf under a nested exception-group subclass matches, subgroup() now calls that subclass's derive() instead of returning the nested group unchanged. No current test in Lib/test/test_exception_group.py would fail if the unchanged-group shortcut returned. The split_exception_group helper checks types, leaves, and metadata, but not identity or derive() calls. The derive() override test asserts code only on split() results, and the original and derived nested groups both have code 101. The top-level and passthrough tests do not reach this path.
Add a test with a nested exception-group subclass whose derive() records its calls and returns a new instance. Call subgroup() on a group where all nested leaves match, then assert that the nested result is the instance derive() returned.
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Review comment at @crates/vm/src/exception_group.rs at line 139:
Add a regression test in the exception-group tests for nested subclass
derivation through subgroup(). Use a nested exception-group subclass whose
derive() records and returns a new instance, call subgroup() with every nested
leaf matching, and assert the nested result is the instance returned by
derive(); ensure the test fails if subgroup() takes the unchanged-group
shortcut.
Release replaced exception metadata after the write lock is released.
Hunk-3 now assigns __context__ and __cause__ even when the original has none. This clears any value the derived group already holds. The setters drop that value while the write lock is held, so a finalizer that reads the same group blocks.
Suggested fix
pub fn set_traceback(&self, traceback: Option<PyTracebackRef>) {
- *self.traceback.write() = traceback;+ let old = std::mem::replace(&mut *self.traceback.write(), traceback);+ drop(old);
}
pub fn set_cause(&self, cause: Option<PyRef<Self>>) {
- let mut c = self.cause.write();
self.set_suppress_context(true);
- *c = cause;+ let old = std::mem::replace(&mut *self.cause.write(), cause);+ drop(old);
}
pub fn set_context(&self, context: Option<PyRef<Self>>) {
- *self.context.write() = context;+ let old = std::mem::replace(&mut *self.context.write(), context);+ drop(old);
}
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Review comment at @crates/vm/src/exception_group.rs around lines 492 - 493:
Update the metadata replacement used by derived.base.set_context and
derived.base.set_cause so any replaced value is released only after its write
lock has been dropped. Apply the change in the corresponding setters, preserving
their existing assignment and suppression behavior.
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Dependency: do not merge yet
This change must not merge before #9600. Copying traceback or copying or clearing cause and context can release values whose finalizers reenter the same exception; the current setters drop those values while holding their locks. #9600 moves those releases outside the locks. The combined source has been independently reviewed; this dependency remains until #9600 is actually merged.
Summary
split(), which uses the same helper.Fixes #9576.
Verification and scope
Objects/exceptions.c; independent source review covered recursion guarding, empty and direct-match cases, metadata, subclass behavior, and the shared split path.git diff --checkpassed. No tests were edited.test_exception_group.subgroup()/split()override dispatch differs from CPython's internal recursion and is not addressed here. Existing canonical tests cover related split and metadata behavior but do not isolate every scenario inExceptionGroup.subgroup()returns a fully matching nested subclass group unchanged instead of callingderive()#9576.AI assistance: OpenAI Codex assisted with implementation and source review.
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Nonewhen no exceptions match and derives a group from matching exceptions.