Ensure that BLAKE-2 objects are fully initialized before being GC-tracked
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Since Aug 15, 2026.
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Bug report
Bug description:
The BLAKE-2 internal states are initialized after PyObject_GC_Track is called. If unlucky, we would call py_blake2_clear on uninitialized states since PyObject_GC_New is used (we want to first initialize the objects entirely before tracking them but some fields depend on the type so we can't use zeroing as is).
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CPython main branch
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- gh-155831
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