Hi,
I've been chasing down why a python test from the python3 testsuite
started failing and it seems to point to this kernel change in the
networking stack.
In kernels beyond commit 4f693b55c3d2d2239b8a0094b518a1e533cf75d5 the
test hangs about 90% of the time (I've reproduced with 5.1-rc3, 5.0.7,
5.0-rc1 but not 4.18, 4.19 or 4.20). The reproducer is:
$ python3 -m test test_httplib -v
== CPython 3.7.2 (default, Apr 5 2019, 15:17:15) [GCC 8.3.0]
== Linux-5.0.0-yocto-standard-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5 little-endian
== cwd: /var/volatile/tmp/test_python_288
== CPU count: 1
== encodings: locale=UTF-8, FS=utf-8
[...]
test_response_fileno (test.test_httplib.BasicTest) ...
and it hangs in test_response_fileno.
The test in question comes from Lib/test/test_httplib.py in the python
source tree and the code is:
def test_response_fileno(self):
# Make sure fd returned by fileno is valid.
serv = socket.socket(
socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, socket.IPPROTO_TCP)
self.addCleanup(serv.close)
serv.bind((HOST, 0))
serv.listen()
result = None
def run_server():
[conn, address] = serv.accept()
with conn, conn.makefile("rb") as reader:
# Read the request header until a blank line
while True:
line = reader.readline()
if not line.rstrip(b"\r\n"):
break
conn.sendall(b"HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established\r\n\r\n")
nonlocal result
result = reader.read()
thread = threading.Thread(target=run_server)
thread.start()
self.addCleanup(thread.join, float(1))
conn = client.HTTPConnection(*serv.getsockname())
conn.request("CONNECT", "dummy:1234")
response = conn.getresponse()
try:
self.assertEqual(response.status, client.OK)
s = socket.socket(fileno=response.fileno())
try:
s.sendall(b"proxied data\n")
finally:
s.detach()
finally:
response.close()
conn.close()
thread.join()
self.assertEqual(result, b"proxied data\n")
I was hoping someone with more understanding of the networking stack
could look at this and tell whether its a bug in the python test, the
kernel change or otherwise give a pointer to where the problem might
be? I'll freely admit this is not an area I know much about.
Cheers,
Richard
