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diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index 05da9506cc0..97da8bba8ad 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include "pycore_pymem.h" // _PyMem_SetDefaultAllocator()
#include "pycore_pystate.h" // _PyInterpreterState_GET()
#include "pycore_sysmodule.h" // _PySys_Audit()
+#include "pycore_weakref.h" // _PyWeakref_GET_REF()
#include "marshal.h" // PyMarshal_ReadObjectFromString()
#include "importdl.h" // _PyImport_DynLoadFiletab
#include "pydtrace.h" // PyDTrace_IMPORT_FIND_LOAD_START_ENABLED()
@@ -373,15 +374,30 @@ PyImport_AddModuleObject(PyObject *name)
return NULL;
}
- // gh-86160: PyImport_AddModuleObject() returns a borrowed reference
+ // gh-86160: PyImport_AddModuleObject() returns a borrowed reference.
+ // Create a weak reference to produce a borrowed reference, since it can
+ // become NULL. sys.modules type can be different than dict and it is not
+ // guaranteed that it keeps a strong reference to the module. It can be a
+ // custom mapping with __getitem__() which returns a new object or removes
+ // returned object, or __setitem__ which does nothing. There is so much
+ // unknown. With weakref we can be sure that we get either a reference to
+ // live object or NULL.
+ //
+ // Use PyImport_AddModuleRef() to avoid these issues.
PyObject *ref = PyWeakref_NewRef(mod, NULL);
Py_DECREF(mod);
if (ref == NULL) {
return NULL;
}
-
- mod = PyWeakref_GetObject(ref);
+ mod = _PyWeakref_GET_REF(ref);
Py_DECREF(ref);
+ Py_XDECREF(mod);
+
+ if (mod == NULL && !PyErr_Occurred()) {
+ PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError,
+ "sys.modules does not hold a strong reference "
+ "to the module");
+ }
return mod; /* borrowed reference */
}