Description of problem: I've been writing an experimental static analysis tool to detect bugs commonly occurring within C Python extension modules: https://fedorahosted.org/gcc-python-plugin/ http://gcc-python-plugin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cpychecker.html http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/StaticAnalysisOfPythonRefcounts I ran the latest version of the tool (in git master; post 0.9) on python-markupsafe-0.11-4.fc17.src.rpm, and it reports various errors. You can see a list of errors here, triaged into categories (from most significant to least significant): http://fedorapeople.org/~dmalcolm/gcc-python-plugin/2012-04-04/python-markupsafe-0.11-4.fc17/ I've manually reviewed the issues reported by the tool. Within the category "Segfaults within error-handling paths" most of the 12 issues reported appear to be at import time, and thus inconsequential. However this one: markupsafe/_speedups.c:escape:dereferencing NULL (s->ob_refcnt) at markupsafe/_speedups.c:157 looks like a genuine crasher for the (low-memory?) case where escape_unicode() fails. Within the other categories ("Possible reference leaks" and "Returning (PyObject*)NULL without setting an exception") the issues reported appear to be false positives/inconseqential. There may of course be other bugs in my checker tool. Hope this is helpful; let me know if you need help reading the logs that the tool generates - I know that it could use some improvement. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-markupsafe-0.11-4.fc17 gcc-python-plugin post-0.9 git 796fa7a73adfddb182c2edad70694b5ebca337b9 running the checker in an *f16* chroot
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
Quite old, closing.