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authorJustin Bronn <jbronn@gmail.com>2009-07-09 02:00:40 +0000
committerJustin Bronn <jbronn@gmail.com>2009-07-09 02:00:40 +0000
commit55968a6edd426af1f341ada1b1b954a607d9c09b (patch)
treed2ffc806b12dfcbee004f24bdc14ba49670cf8ee
parent4532cf69dec504ad1b62c1ff48b011d46e545c8a (diff)
Fixed GEOS & GDAL C function prototypes to explicitly use a subclass of `c_char_p` as the return type on routines that return strings. This prevents crashes on some 64-bit platforms, like FreeBSD. Thanks to wilsaj for discovering the problem. Refs #9747.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@11205 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
-rw-r--r--django/contrib/gis/gdal/prototypes/generation.py9
-rw-r--r--django/contrib/gis/geos/prototypes/topology.py2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/prototypes/generation.py b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/prototypes/generation.py
index bba715d67c..1303532372 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/prototypes/generation.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/prototypes/generation.py
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ from django.contrib.gis.gdal.prototypes.errcheck import \
check_arg_errcode, check_errcode, check_geom, check_geom_offset, \
check_pointer, check_srs, check_str_arg, check_string, check_const_string
+class gdal_char_p(c_char_p):
+ pass
+
def double_output(func, argtypes, errcheck=False, strarg=False):
"Generates a ctypes function that returns a double value."
func.argtypes = argtypes
@@ -77,9 +80,9 @@ def string_output(func, argtypes, offset=-1, str_result=False):
"""
func.argtypes = argtypes
if str_result:
- # String is the result, don't explicitly define
- # the argument type so we can get the pointer.
- pass
+ # Use subclass of c_char_p so the error checking routine
+ # can free the memory at the pointer's address.
+ func.restype = gdal_char_p
else:
# Error code is returned
func.restype = c_int
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/prototypes/topology.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/prototypes/topology.py
index 633340901b..65c26f9f37 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/prototypes/topology.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/prototypes/topology.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ __all__ = ['geos_boundary', 'geos_buffer', 'geos_centroid', 'geos_convexhull',
from ctypes import c_char_p, c_double, c_int
from django.contrib.gis.geos.libgeos import lgeos, GEOM_PTR, GEOS_PREPARE
from django.contrib.gis.geos.prototypes.errcheck import check_geom, check_string
+from django.contrib.gis.geos.prototypes.geom import geos_char_p
def topology(func, *args):
"For GEOS unary topology functions."
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ geos_union = topology(lgeos.GEOSUnion, GEOM_PTR)
# GEOSRelate returns a string, not a geometry.
geos_relate = lgeos.GEOSRelate
geos_relate.argtypes = [GEOM_PTR, GEOM_PTR]
+geos_relate.restype = geos_char_p
geos_relate.errcheck = check_string
# Routines only in GEOS 3.1+