Bad specialization of STORE_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE with obj.__dict__

[colesbury]

Consider:

class MyObject: pass

def func():
    o = MyObject()
    o.__dict__
    for _ in range(100):
        o.foo = "bar"
        o.baz = "qux"

for _ in range(100):
    func()

    opcode[STORE_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE].specialization.miss : 20382
    opcode[STORE_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE].execution_count : 21167

The STORE_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE has a guard _GUARD_DORV_NO_DICT that ensures that the object does not have a managed dictionary:

cpython/Python/bytecodes.c

Line 2269 in 760872e

EXIT_IF(_PyObject_GetManagedDict(owner_o));

However, the specializer for STORE_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE does not take that into account. It only checks that the inline values are valid:

cpython/Python/specialize.c

Lines 867 to 886 in 760872e

	if (type->tp_flags & Py_TPFLAGS_INLINE_VALUES && _PyObject_InlineValues(owner)->valid) {
	PyDictKeysObject *keys = ((PyHeapTypeObject *)type)->ht_cached_keys;
	assert(PyUnicode_CheckExact(name));
	Py_ssize_t index = _PyDictKeys_StringLookup(keys, name);
	assert (index != DKIX_ERROR);
	if (index == DKIX_EMPTY) {
	SPECIALIZATION_FAIL(base_op, SPEC_FAIL_ATTR_NOT_IN_KEYS);
	return 0;
	}
	assert(index >= 0);
	char *value_addr = (char *)&_PyObject_InlineValues(owner)->values[index];
	Py_ssize_t offset = value_addr - (char *)owner;
	if (offset != (uint16_t)offset) {
	SPECIALIZATION_FAIL(base_op, SPEC_FAIL_OUT_OF_RANGE);
	return 0;
	}
	write_u32(cache->version, type->tp_version_tag);
	cache->index = (uint16_t)offset;
	instr->op.code = values_op;
	}

I'm not sure if we should change the guard or change specialize.c

Linked PRs

• gh-125610: Fix STORE_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE specialization check #125612
• [3.13] gh-125610: Fix STORE_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE specialization check (GH-125612) #127698