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Ensure that BLAKE-2 objects are fully initialized before being GC-tracked #155830

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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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  1. self-assigned this
    on Aug 15, 2026
  2. added 3 commits that reference this issue on Oct 19, 2026
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