Data race in `dk_nentries`

[brijkapadia]

Bug report

Bug description:

This is a sub-issue of #153852 with the gist here.

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This reproducer crashes in free-threaded build with TSan:

import threading

ROUNDS = 10000

box = [None]
enter = threading.Barrier(2)
leave = threading.Barrier(2)

def reader():
    for _ in range(ROUNDS):
        enter.wait()
        obj = box[0]
        obj.__getstate__()
        leave.wait()

def writer():
    for i in range(ROUNDS):
        box[0] = type(f"C{i}", (), {})()
        enter.wait()
        obj = box[0]
        setattr(obj, f"{i}", 1)
        leave.wait()

threads = [threading.Thread(target=reader), threading.Thread(target=writer)]

for thread in threads:
    thread.start()

for thread in threads:
    thread.join()

See the gist for more information.

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs

• gh-153881: Atomically load dk_nentries in _PyObject_IsInstanceDictEmpty #153882
• [3.15] gh-153881: Atomically load dk_nentries in _PyObject_IsInstanceDictEmpty (GH-153882) #154349