Issue #19482 has been updated by nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga). Backport changed from 2.7: DONTNEED, 3.0: DONTNEED, 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: REQUIRED to 2.7: DONTNEED, 3.0: DONTNEED, 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: DONE ruby_3_2 141402d11c09fa641eebd8f4841f81e7bbf3518c merged revision(s) e1bd45624c85e8a80991bda20801f50967ac77a1. ---------------------------------------- Bug #19482: Fix crash when allocating classes with newobj hook https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19482#change-103886 * Author: peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu) * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * Backport: 2.7: DONTNEED, 3.0: DONTNEED, 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: DONE ---------------------------------------- GitHub PR: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7464 We need to zero out the whole slot when running the newobj hook for a newly allocated class because the slot could be filled with garbage, which would cause a crash if a GC runs inside of the newobj hook. For example, the following script crashes: ```ruby require "objspace" GC.stress = true ObjectSpace.trace_object_allocations { 100.times do Class.new end } ``` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/