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Reuse the existing fallible assignment_value path for ctypes scalar initialization, .value assignment and generic from_param conversion. Remove the duplicate validator and byte writer that repeated Python callbacks and could turn conversion failures into zero.
Keep __new__ allocation-only with zeroed storage; __init__ converts the optional positional value once and ignores keywords, as CPython does.
Reuse ArgIntoFloat for float conversion, including float-subclass handling and __index__ fallback.
Preserve conversion exceptions while supporting _as_parameter_ fallback through existing optional-attribute and recursion machinery.
Build native-endian CArgObject values directly instead of allocating a temporary scalar wrapper.
Strict threading VM library Clippy and default-feature VM library compilation passed on base c8991a5bcf.
Formatting, diff checks and independent source review passed, including the resized-buffer correction.
Independent CPython 3.15.0 probes covered once-only protocols, error/fallback behavior, float subclasses, allocation/init separation, characters, swapped storage, None ownership and resized scalars. These are reference observations, not RustPython runtime tests.
Local validation is compile/source-only. RustPython runtime, full-workspace and C-API tests were not run locally. Existing Lib/test/test_ctypes coverage is unchanged. Windows wchar/BSTR behavior remains unverified; this does not implement COM string allocation or a new long-double ABI.
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Bug Fixes
Improved conversion of scalar values passed to C-compatible interfaces, including support for None with pointer types and _as_parameter_ fallbacks when direct conversion fails.
Corrected value assignment to update existing storage, including array and pointer elements.
Improved handling of Windows wide strings, including strings containing embedded NUL characters and null pointers.
Fixed Windows callback handling for wide strings and BSTR values.
Simple-value initialization now ignores keyword arguments; value assignment converts values before updating existing storage.
Route initialization, value writes and generic from_param through existing scalar assignment. Keep allocation separate from conversion, preserve fallback exceptions and ownership, and reuse bounded writes for resized storage.
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Scalar ctypes conversion and assignment now use assignment_value and existing storage. Windows support adds BSTR allocation, decoding, ownership handling, and X type-code support across value, array, and callback paths.
Changes: Scalar ctypes conversion and BSTR support
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Scalar conversion and instance storage crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/simple.rs
from_param converts scalar values through assignment_value and can fall back to _as_parameter_. Construction allocates zeroed storage from StgInfo; initialization accepts keyword arguments, and value assignment writes converted bytes into existing storage.
Windows BSTR ownership and decoding crates/host_env/src/ctypes.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/base.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/simple.rs
BStr manages allocation and ownership. Windows X values decode as wide strings and use BSTR-backed storage during assignment and writes.
BSTR callback and FFI handling crates/host_env/src/ctypes.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/function.rs
Callback arguments and results support X pointer values. Windows wide-string callback values convert to Python strings.
Array, pointer, and field writes crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/array.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/base.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/pointer.rs
Array elements and fields use destination-aware writes. Pointer element writes snapshot the destination bytes before copying the prepared value.
sequenceDiagram
participant PythonValue
participant SimpleAssignment as assignment_value
participant BStr
participant CDataStorage
PythonValue->>SimpleAssignment: Convert Windows X value
SimpleAssignment->>BStr: Allocate BSTR
BStr-->>SimpleAssignment: Return BSTR bytes
SimpleAssignment->>CDataStorage: Replace destination BSTR and write bytes
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Possibly related PRs
RustPython/RustPython#9390: Establishes StgInfo as the source of scalar type metadata, which this PR uses for conversion.
RustPython/RustPython#9251: Introduces assignment_value, which this PR uses for scalar conversion and assignment.
RustPython/RustPython#9657: Centralizes aggregate from_param conversion; this PR updates scalar from_param behavior in the related conversion path.
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Resolve BSTR ownership and callback failure handling before merging: affected Windows programs can leak memory or access invalid pointers. Resized swapped scalars also retain an incorrect read-back path.
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Add FFI lowering for newly accepted scalar type codes
For VARIANT_BOOL ('v') and Windows BSTR ('X'), this default arm now accepts ordinary Python values and returns typed C arguments, but ffi_value_from_type_code in crates/host_env/src/ctypes.rs has no arm for either code and falls through to FfiValue::Pointer(0). Consequently, a foreign function with VARIANT_BOOL in argtypes receives false for True, and a nonzero BSTR address is passed as NULL; these raw inputs previously raised TypeError. Add the corresponding FFI lowering or exclude these codes from the generic path so successful conversion cannot silently discard the value.
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Review comments at @crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/simple.rs:
- Around line 852-853: Update the swapped branch in value to reverse only the
scalar-width prefix used by decode_type_code, bounded by the available buffer
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Reverse only the scalar-width prefix in the swapped getter.
The setter now keeps a resized tail, but value still reverses the whole buffer. The first bytes that decode_type_code reads then come from the zero tail, so a grown swapped scalar reads back 0.
Suggested fix
let buffer_data: alloc::borrow::Cow<'_, [u8]> = if swapped {
- // Reverse bytes for swapped endian types+ // Reverse only the scalar prefix; keep any resized tail.+ let width = cls.stg_info(vm)?.size.min(buffer.len());
let mut swapped_bytes = buffer.to_vec();
- swapped_bytes.reverse();+ swapped_bytes[..width].reverse();
alloc::borrow::Cow::Owned(swapped_bytes)
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Update the swapped branch in value to reverse only the scalar-width prefix used
by decode_type_code, bounded by the available buffer length; preserve any
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Allocate Windows BSTR values with SysAllocStringLen and decode their explicit length, preserving embedded NULs and UTF-16 surrogates. Guard unpublished allocations and free previous values only when committing scalar, field, array or pointer assignments. Preserve raw-copy and COM ownership-transfer semantics instead of attaching destructor ownership.
Route BSTR foreign-call values and callbacks as pointers, preserve callback subclass pointer identity, and report callback conversion errors. Add host regression coverage for pointer lowering and Windows allocation/replacement.
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Initialize failed BSTR callback results to NULL
On Windows, when a BSTR callback returns an unsupported value (or BSTR allocation fails), this arm reports the exception but never writes to result; thunk_callback then returns the same undefined libffi result slot to native code. The caller can therefore receive a garbage BSTR pointer and crash when it reads or frees it, so this error path should explicitly store a NULL pointer.
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Minor · Write a NULL result when BSTR callback conversion fails. · function.rs:2083-2090
crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/function.rs:2083-2090 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Write a NULL result when BSTR callback conversion fails.
When the X result conversion fails, this branch reports the exception but leaves the libffi result slot unwritten. libffi requires the callback to fill ret, so the native caller can read an indeterminate pointer as a BSTR. Write a null pointer in the Err branch.
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- Err(exc) => vm.run_unraisable(- exc,- Some(- "Exception ignored while converting result of ctypes callback function"- .to_owned(),- ),- obj,- ),+ Err(exc) => {+ unsafe {+ rustpython_host_env::ctypes::write_callback_result(+ Some("X"),+ result,+ rustpython_host_env::ctypes::CallbackResultValue::Pointer(0),+ );+ }+ vm.run_unraisable(+ exc,+ Some(+ "Exception ignored while converting result of ctypes callback function"+ .to_owned(),+ ),+ obj,+ );+ }
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Review comment at @crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/function.rs around lines 2083 -
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In the BSTR result-conversion Err branch, write a null pointer to the libffi
result slot before reporting the exception with vm.run_unraisable. Use the
existing callback-result mechanism and preserve the current unraisable-exception
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Cover the str path for X (BSTR) fields in the Windows snippet.
The Windows Rust test calls BStr::new and replace directly. It never reaches assignment_value("X", ...), and the Windows snippet assigns only None. A change that breaks str conversion for X fields would not fail either test. Add a str assignment and a read-back check to the existing win32 block:
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Review comment at @crates/host_env/src/ctypes.rs around lines 3137 - 3143:
Extend the existing win32 test snippet to assign a string to an X (BSTR) field
and read it back to verify the value is preserved. Keep the current None
assignment and null-pointer check, and exercise the normal string-assignment
path rather than calling BStr methods directly.
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Review comments at @crates/host_env/src/ctypes.rs:
- Around line 643-646: Update BStr::replace to check that the previous pointer
is owned by this BStr before freeing it with SysFreeString. Preserve replacement
behavior for owned values, and leave borrowed or foreign pointers untouched; use
the existing ownership-tracking mechanism rather than assuming every slot value
is owned.
- Around line 637-639: Update the ownership handling around `commit` so each
committed BSTR remains tracked by its owning value and is freed when that value
is dropped, unless ownership has been transferred to a foreign call. Establish
and preserve the existing transfer semantics so a transferred BSTR is not freed
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Review comments at @crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/function.rs:
- Around line 2083-2090: In the BSTR result-conversion Err branch, write a null
pointer to the libffi result slot before reporting the exception with
vm.run_unraisable. Use the existing callback-result mechanism and preserve the
current unraisable-exception reporting behavior.
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Review comments at @crates/host_env/src/ctypes.rs:
- Around line 3137-3143: Extend the existing win32 test snippet to assign a
string to an X (BSTR) field and read it back to verify the value is preserved.
Keep the current None assignment and null-pointer check, and exercise the normal
string-assignment path rather than calling BStr methods directly.
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crates/host_env/src/ctypes.rs
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crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/base.rs
crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/function.rs
crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/pointer.rs
crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/simple.rs
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
rg -n 'BStr::new|\.commit\(|sys_free_string|CArgValue::typed|impl Drop for PyCData|impl Drop for CArgObject' crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes crates/host_env/src
Repository: RustPython/RustPython
Length of output: 1732
Script executed:
sed -n '600,640p' crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/simple.rs;echo ----; sed -n '140,175p' crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/simple.rs;echo ----; sed -n '900,930p' crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/simple.rs;echo ----; sed -n '1078,1111p' crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/base.rs;echo ----; sed -n '2060,2100p' crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes/function.rs
Free committed BSTRs when no ctypes value owns them.
Committed BSTRs are freed only when a later assignment replaces them. Discarded temporary X scalars and X.from_param(str) arguments never free their BSTR, because no owner remains. Track the allocation on the owning value and free it on drop, unless ownership moves to a foreign call.
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Review comment at @crates/host_env/src/ctypes.rs around lines 637 - 639:
Update the ownership handling around `commit` so each committed BSTR remains
tracked by its owning value and is freed when that value is dropped, unless
ownership has been transferred to a foreign call. Establish and preserve the
existing transfer semantics so a transferred BSTR is not freed by the value’s
drop path.
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Track BSTR ownership before freeing a replaced slot value.
BStr::replace frees the previous slot value without checking ownership. Slots filled by from_buffer_copy or from_address can hold pointers owned by another object or by foreign memory. Assigning a string to such a slot calls SysFreeString on that pointer. This causes use-after-free, double free, or a crash.
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Review comment at @crates/host_env/src/ctypes.rs around lines 643 - 646:
Update BStr::replace to check that the previous pointer is owned by this BStr
before freeing it with SysFreeString. Preserve replacement behavior for owned
values, and leave borrowed or foreign pointers untouched; use the existing
ownership-tracking mechanism rather than assuming every slot value is owned.
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Summary
Reuse the existing fallible
assignment_valuepath for ctypes scalar initialization,.valueassignment and genericfrom_paramconversion. Remove the duplicate validator and byte writer that repeated Python callbacks and could turn conversion failures into zero.__new__allocation-only with zeroed storage;__init__converts the optional positional value once and ignores keywords, as CPython does.ArgIntoFloatfor float conversion, including float-subclass handling and__index__fallback._as_parameter_fallback through existing optional-attribute and recursion machinery.CArgObjectvalues directly instead of allocating a temporary scalar wrapper.The contracts were compared with CPython 3.15's ctypes implementation and scalar setters. No new conversion framework, tests, snippets or workflow changes.
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c8991a5bcf.Local validation is compile/source-only. RustPython runtime, full-workspace and C-API tests were not run locally. Existing
Lib/test/test_ctypescoverage is unchanged. Windows wchar/BSTR behavior remains unverified; this does not implement COM string allocation or a new long-double ABI.AI assistance: implementation and review used OpenAI Codex; model version was not exposed.
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Nonewith pointer types and_as_parameter_fallbacks when direct conversion fails.