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Possible race condition in signal handling #102397

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@kumaraditya303

The following code segfaults the interpreter on Linux. Tested on current main.

import gc
import _thread

gc.set_threshold(1, 0, 0)

def cb(*args):
    _thread.interrupt_main()


gc.callbacks.append(cb)

def gen():
    yield 1

g = gen()
g.__next__()
Exception ignored in: <function cb at 0x7f7f4f6fe200>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/workspaces/cpython/main.py", line 7, in cb
    _thread.interrupt_main()
KeyboardInterrupt: 
Exception ignored in: <function cb at 0x7f7f4f6fe200>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/workspaces/cpython/main.py", line 7, in cb
    _thread.interrupt_main()
KeyboardInterrupt: 
Exception ignored in: <function cb at 0x7f7f4f6fe200>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/workspaces/cpython/main.py", line 7, in cb
    _thread.interrupt_main()
KeyboardInterrupt: 
Exception ignored in: <function cb at 0x7f7f4f6fe200>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/workspaces/cpython/main.py", line 7, in cb
    _thread.interrupt_main()
KeyboardInterrupt: 
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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    3.10 (EOL)end of life3.11only security fixes3.12only security fixesinterpreter-core(Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs)type-bugAn unexpected behavior, bug, or errortype-crashA hard crash of the interpreter, possibly with a core dump

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