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-rw-r--r--numpy/fft/fftpack.py8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/fft/fftpack.py b/numpy/fft/fftpack.py
index 7ee0e4bea..236a18d7a 100644
--- a/numpy/fft/fftpack.py
+++ b/numpy/fft/fftpack.py
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ def _raw_fft(a, n=None, axis=-1, init_function=fftpack.cffti,
raise ValueError("Invalid number of FFT data points (%d) specified." % n)
try:
+ # Thread-safety note: We rely on list.pop() here to atomically
+ # retrieve-and-remove a wsave from the cache. This ensures that no
+ # other thread can get the same wsave while we're using it.
wsave = fft_cache.setdefault(n, []).pop()
except (IndexError):
wsave = init_function(n)
@@ -76,7 +79,12 @@ def _raw_fft(a, n=None, axis=-1, init_function=fftpack.cffti,
r = work_function(a, wsave)
if axis != -1:
r = swapaxes(r, axis, -1)
+
+ # As soon as we put wsave back into the cache, another thread could pick it
+ # up and start using it, so we must not do this until after we're
+ # completely done using it ourselves.
fft_cache[n].append(wsave)
+
return r