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bpo-34521: Fix tests in test_multiprocessing_spawn to use correctly CMSG_SPACE (GH-9613)
After some failures in AMD64 FreeBSD CURRENT Debug 3.x buildbots regarding tests in test_multiprocessing_spawn and after examining similar failures in test_socket, some errors in the calculation of ancillary data buffers were found in multiprocessing.reduction. CMSG_LEN() can often be used as the buffer size for recvmsg() to receive a single item of ancillary data, but RFC 3542 requires portable applications to use CMSG_SPACE() and thus include space for padding, even when the item will be the last in the buffer. The failures we experience are due to the usage of CMSG_LEN() instead of CMSG_SPACE().
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Lib/multiprocessing/reduction.py

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@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def recvfds(sock, size):
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'''Receive an array of fds over an AF_UNIX socket.'''
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a = array.array('i')
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bytes_size = a.itemsize * size
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msg, ancdata, flags, addr = sock.recvmsg(1, socket.CMSG_LEN(bytes_size))
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msg, ancdata, flags, addr = sock.recvmsg(1, socket.CMSG_SPACE(bytes_size))
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if not msg and not ancdata:
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raise EOFError
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