merge 3.2 (#14334)

Lib/test/test_descr.py

@@ -4400,6 +4400,9 @@ order (MRO) for bases """
 
         self.assertRaises(AttributeError, getattr, EvilGetattribute(), "attr")
 
+    def test_type___getattribute__(self):
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, type.__getattribute__, list, type)
+
     def test_abstractmethods(self):
         # type pretends not to have __abstractmethods__.
         self.assertRaises(AttributeError, getattr, type, "__abstractmethods__")

Misc/NEWS

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - Give the ast.AST class a __dict__.
 
+- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
+  passed strings.
+
 - Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
   collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
 

Objects/typeobject.c

@@ -2486,6 +2486,13 @@ type_getattro(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *name)
     PyObject *meta_attribute, *attribute;
     descrgetfunc meta_get;
 
+    if (!PyUnicode_Check(name)) {
+        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
+                     "attribute name must be string, not '%.200s'",
+                     name->ob_type->tp_name);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
     /* Initialize this type (we'll assume the metatype is initialized) */
     if (type->tp_dict == NULL) {
         if (PyType_Ready(type) < 0)