gh-102356: Add thrashcan macros to filter object dealloc (GH-102426)

Add thrashcan macros to the deallocator of the filter objects to protect against deeply nested destruction of chains of nested filters.
(cherry picked from commit 66aa78c)

Co-authored-by: Marta Gómez Macías <mgmacias@google.com>

Author: miss-islington

Lib/test/test_builtin.py

@@ -799,6 +799,16 @@ def test_filter_pickle(self):
             f2 = filter(filter_char, "abcdeabcde")
             self.check_iter_pickle(f1, list(f2), proto)
 
+    def test_filter_dealloc(self):
+        # Tests recursive deallocation of nested filter objects using the
+        # thrashcan mechanism. See gh-102356 for more details.
+        max_iters = 1000000
+        i = filter(bool, range(max_iters))
+        for _ in range(max_iters):
+            i = filter(bool, i)
+        del i
+        gc.collect()
+
     def test_getattr(self):
         self.assertTrue(getattr(sys, 'stdout') is sys.stdout)
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, getattr, sys, 1)

Misc/ACKS

@@ -627,6 +627,7 @@ Tim Golden
 Yonatan Goldschmidt
 Mark Gollahon
 Mikhail Golubev
+Marta Gómez Macías
 Guilherme Gonçalves
 Tiago Gonçalves
 Chris Gonnerman

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-03-04-20-56-12.gh-issue-102356.07KvUd.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix a bug that caused a crash when deallocating deeply nested filter
+objects. Patch by Marta Gómez Macías.

Python/bltinmodule.c

@@ -567,9 +567,11 @@ static void
 filter_dealloc(filterobject *lz)
 {
     PyObject_GC_UnTrack(lz);
+    Py_TRASHCAN_BEGIN(lz, filter_dealloc)
     Py_XDECREF(lz->func);
     Py_XDECREF(lz->it);
     Py_TYPE(lz)->tp_free(lz);
+    Py_TRASHCAN_END
 }
 
 static int