Bug 1181624

Summary:	multiprocessing BaseManager serve_client() does not check EINTR on recv
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Dan Kenigsberg <danken>
Component:	python	Assignee:	Robert Kuska <rkuska>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Branislav Náter <bnater>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.1	CC:	bkabrda, danken, isenfeld, jberan, jherrman, oourfali, python-maint, qe-baseos-apps, rkuska
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Patch, ZStream
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	python-2.7.5-19.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, the BaseManager class terminated unexpectedly when multiple signals were received on the same process. With this update, the multiprocessing module has been modified so that its methods ignore the "interrupted function" (EINTR) error, and the described crash no longer occurs.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1180864
Clones:	1210347 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-11-19 12:43:10 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	841486, 1180864, 1210347

Description Dan Kenigsberg 2015-01-13 13:41:30 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1180864 +++

Description of problem:
There is a problem with using BaseManager and receiving signals on the same process, there was a bug opened on python [1] and it was fixed for 2.7 and 3.x.
We asked to backport this to el6, but now realized that it's not even in el7. can this be backported to python2.7.5?

[1] - http://bugs.python.org/issue17097

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-2.7.5-16.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Included in the python bug [1]

Comment 1 Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda 2015-01-13 14:06:11 UTC

We can fix this for 7.2 using upstream patch [1] linked to the referenced upstream issue.

[1] https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bc34fe4a0d58

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 12:43:10 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2101.html