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types: rework PyCapsule for soundness #2485

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Follow up to #2481.

This PR changes the PyCapsule API as discussed in that PR. In addition, I realised that error handling in the implementation was potentially incorrect - I had to rework a few things so that in case of an "invalid capsule" Python errors are always either propagated or cleared as I felt was appropriate.

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I think the changes are correct. I am not sure whether our API matches the intent of the CPython API it is wrapping though.

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Would you also change reference() to take name: Option<&CStr> argument, or given that method is unsafe would you leave it with the existing semantics it has here (where issues with validity / name are ignored)?

This is a difficult decision. I think going for the principle of least surprise, I would expect reference to call pointer and just take care of casting and dereferencing, so I would expect an equivalent signature like

pub unsafe fn reference<T>(&self, name: Option<&CStr>) -> PyResult<&T>;

I am also not sure if the currently implementation shouldn't at least clear any Python exceptions even if it ignores them?

But as written before, this is said under the assumption that we should match the CPython API where I do not understand why the CPython API wants to independently verify the name. (Could this be a consistency check to prevent type confusion?)

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After thinking about this for a while, I noticed that pybind11 also deviates from the C API and automatically loads the name, as we were, so I think I will roll back a couple of these changes to be closer to our previous API.

(https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/blob/75007dda72ad4508064c1f080394eae50d3a61ee/include/pybind11/pytypes.h#L1626)

@davidhewitt davidhewitt force-pushed the rework-capsule branch 2 times, most recently from 58ab0eb to a4d4c91 Compare July 21, 2022 21:24
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