From 0d6e40744ae40ff397883ff90ca235efd3b63f18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 12:42:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-39068: Fix race condition in base64 (GH-17627)

There was a race condition in base64 in lazy initialization of multiple globals.
(cherry picked from commit 9655434cca5dfbea97bf6d355aec028e840b289c)

Co-authored-by: Brandon Stansbury <brandonrstansbury@gmail.com>
---
 Lib/base64.py                                                 | 4 ++--
 Misc/ACKS                                                     | 1 +
 .../next/Library/2019-12-16-17-55-31.bpo-39068.Ti3f9P.rst     | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-16-17-55-31.bpo-39068.Ti3f9P.rst

diff --git a/Lib/base64.py b/Lib/base64.py
index a28109f8a7f..ec3823b724a 100755
--- a/Lib/base64.py
+++ b/Lib/base64.py
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ def a85encode(b, *, foldspaces=False, wrapcol=0, pad=False, adobe=False):
     global _a85chars, _a85chars2
     # Delay the initialization of tables to not waste memory
     # if the function is never called
-    if _a85chars is None:
+    if _a85chars2 is None:
         _a85chars = [bytes((i,)) for i in range(33, 118)]
         _a85chars2 = [(a + b) for a in _a85chars for b in _a85chars]
 
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ def b85encode(b, pad=False):
     global _b85chars, _b85chars2
     # Delay the initialization of tables to not waste memory
     # if the function is never called
-    if _b85chars is None:
+    if _b85chars2 is None:
         _b85chars = [bytes((i,)) for i in _b85alphabet]
         _b85chars2 = [(a + b) for a in _b85chars for b in _b85chars]
     return _85encode(b, _b85chars, _b85chars2, pad)
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index a20c41f1cb1..58a4accd134 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1641,6 +1641,7 @@ Quentin Stafford-Fraser
 Frank Stajano
 Joel Stanley
 Kyle Stanley
+Brandon Stansbury
 Anthony Starks
 David Steele
 Oliver Steele
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-16-17-55-31.bpo-39068.Ti3f9P.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-16-17-55-31.bpo-39068.Ti3f9P.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fe6503fdce6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-16-17-55-31.bpo-39068.Ti3f9P.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix initialization race condition in :func:`a85encode` and :func:`b85encode`
+in :mod:`base64`. Patch by Brandon Stansbury.