https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fd9d8c3c66fc147cac6024c63b8c109d65e3aec8
commit: fd9d8c3c66fc147cac6024c63b8c109d65e3aec8
branch: main
author: Sam Gross <[email protected]>
committer: kumaraditya303 <[email protected]>
date: 2026-07-07T21:22:00+05:30
summary:

gh-150191: Avoid data race in test_sni_callback_race (#150193)

files:
M Lib/test/test_ssl.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ssl.py b/Lib/test/test_ssl.py
index 40111d41007795..575a322aa45923 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ssl.py
@@ -1604,19 +1604,24 @@ def dummycallback(sock, servername, ctx, cycle=ctx):
         gc.collect()
         self.assertIs(wr(), None)
 
-    @unittest.skipUnless(support.Py_GIL_DISABLED,
-                         "test is only useful if the GIL is disabled")
     @threading_helper.requires_working_threading()
     def test_sni_callback_race(self):
-        # Replacing sni_callback while handshakes are in-flight must not
+        # Replacing sni_callback while a handshake is in-flight must not
         # crash (use-after-free on the callback in free-threaded builds).
+        #
+        # Use a single handshake thread: OpenSSL has internal data races
+        # on shared SSL_CTX state when multiple handshakes run
+        # concurrently against the same context (gh-150191). Concurrency
+        # on the *setter* is what exercises the fix from gh-149816, so
+        # multiple toggler threads race against each other and against
+        # the one handshake worker.
         client_ctx, server_ctx, hostname = testing_context()
 
         server_ctx.sni_callback = lambda *a: None
-        done = threading.Event()
+        deadline = time.monotonic() + 0.1
 
         def do_handshakes():
-            while not done.is_set():
+            while time.monotonic() < deadline:
                 c_in = ssl.MemoryBIO()
                 c_out = ssl.MemoryBIO()
                 s_in = ssl.MemoryBIO()
@@ -1643,19 +1648,11 @@ def do_handshakes():
                         c_in.write(s_out.read())
 
         def toggle_callback():
-            while not done.is_set():
+            while time.monotonic() < deadline:
                 server_ctx.sni_callback = lambda *a: None
                 server_ctx.sni_callback = None
 
-        workers = max(4, (os.cpu_count() or 4) * 2)
-        threads = [threading.Thread(target=do_handshakes)
-                   for _ in range(workers)]
-        threads.append(threading.Thread(target=toggle_callback))
-
-        with threading_helper.catch_threading_exception() as cm:
-            with threading_helper.start_threads(threads):
-                done.set()
-            self.assertIsNone(cm.exc_value)
+        threading_helper.run_concurrently([do_handshakes] + 4 * 
[toggle_callback])
 
     def test_cert_store_stats(self):
         ctx = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLS_CLIENT)

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