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  r83944 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-08-11 15:31:33 +0200 (mer., 11 août 2010) | 6 lines

  Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
  original read request had been satisfied, which can block indefinitely
  when the underlying raw IO channel is e.g. a socket.  Report and original
  patch by Jason V. Miller.
........

Lib/test/test_io.py

@@ -57,12 +57,14 @@ class MockRawIO:
         self._read_stack = list(read_stack)
         self._write_stack = []
         self._reads = 0
+        self._extraneous_reads = 0
 
     def read(self, n=None):
         self._reads += 1
         try:
             return self._read_stack.pop(0)
         except:
+            self._extraneous_reads += 1
             return b""
 
     def write(self, b):
@@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ class MockRawIO:
         try:
             data = self._read_stack[0]
         except IndexError:
+            self._extraneous_reads += 1
             return 0
         if data is None:
             del self._read_stack[0]
@@ -831,6 +834,27 @@ class BufferedReaderTest(unittest.TestCase, CommonBufferedTests):
         self.assertRaises(IOError, bufio.seek, 0)
         self.assertRaises(IOError, bufio.tell)
 
+    def test_no_extraneous_read(self):
+        # Issue #9550; when the raw IO object has satisfied the read request,
+        # we should not issue any additional reads, otherwise it may block
+        # (e.g. socket).
+        bufsize = 16
+        for n in (2, bufsize - 1, bufsize, bufsize + 1, bufsize * 2):
+            rawio = self.MockRawIO([b"x" * n])
+            bufio = self.tp(rawio, bufsize)
+            self.assertEqual(bufio.read(n), b"x" * n)
+            # Simple case: one raw read is enough to satisfy the request.
+            self.assertEqual(rawio._extraneous_reads, 0,
+                             "failed for {}: {} != 0".format(n, rawio._extraneous_reads))
+            # A more complex case where two raw reads are needed to satisfy
+            # the request.
+            rawio = self.MockRawIO([b"x" * (n - 1), b"x"])
+            bufio = self.tp(rawio, bufsize)
+            self.assertEqual(bufio.read(n), b"x" * n)
+            self.assertEqual(rawio._extraneous_reads, 0,
+                             "failed for {}: {} != 0".format(n, rawio._extraneous_reads))
+
+
 class CBufferedReaderTest(BufferedReaderTest):
     tp = io.BufferedReader
 

Misc/ACKS

@@ -528,6 +528,7 @@ Trent Mick
 Aristotelis Mikropoulos
 Damien Miller
 Chad Miller
+Jason V. Miller
 Jay T. Miller
 Roman Milner
 Andrii V. Mishkovskyi

Misc/NEWS

@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
+  original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
+  when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket.  Report and original
+  patch by Jason V. Miller.
+
 - Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
   SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
 

Modules/_io/bufferedio.c

@@ -1388,7 +1388,10 @@ _bufferedreader_read_generic(buffered *self, Py_ssize_t n)
     self->pos = 0;
     self->raw_pos = 0;
     self->read_end = 0;
-    while (self->read_end < self->buffer_size) {
+    /* NOTE: when the read is satisfied, we avoid issuing any additional
+       reads, which could block indefinitely (e.g. on a socket).
+       See issue #9550. */
+    while (remaining > 0 && self->read_end < self->buffer_size) {
         Py_ssize_t r = _bufferedreader_fill_buffer(self);
         if (r == -1)
             goto error;