bpo-43472: Ensure PyInterpreterState_New audit events are raised when called through _xxsubinterpreters module (GH-25506)

(cherry picked from commit 7b86e47)

Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Doc/library/sys.rst

@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ always available.
 .. function:: addaudithook(hook)
 
    Append the callable *hook* to the list of active auditing hooks for the
-   current interpreter.
+   current (sub)interpreter.
 
    When an auditing event is raised through the :func:`sys.audit` function, each
    hook will be called in the order it was added with the event name and the
    tuple of arguments. Native hooks added by :c:func:`PySys_AddAuditHook` are
-   called first, followed by hooks added in the current interpreter.  Hooks
+   called first, followed by hooks added in the current (sub)interpreter.  Hooks
    can then log the event, raise an exception to abort the operation,
    or terminate the process entirely.
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-04-21-22-53-31.bpo-43472.gjLBTb.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Ensures interpreter-level audit hooks receive the
+``cpython.PyInterpreterState_New`` event when called through the
+``_xxsubinterpreters`` module.

Modules/_xxsubinterpretersmodule.c

@@ -1993,7 +1993,7 @@ interp_create(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
     }
 
     // Create and initialize the new interpreter.
-    PyThreadState *save_tstate = PyThreadState_Swap(NULL);
+    PyThreadState *save_tstate = PyThreadState_Get();
     // XXX Possible GILState issues?
     PyThreadState *tstate = Py_NewInterpreter();
     PyThreadState_Swap(save_tstate);