gh-107898: Do not ignore `address` and `flags` parameters in `socket.{send,recv}_fds` #128882

GalaxySnail · 2025-01-15T14:43:18Z

GalaxySnail · 2025-01-15T15:21:29Z

I have no idea what's happening on macOS. Should we just skip it on macOS?

Zheaoli · 2025-01-16T04:39:00Z

MSG_PEEK may got different action on macOS/FreeBSD, let's figure it out.

BTW, we can skip the macOS test first

picnixz

Can we also have a test that combine both address and flags as well for send_fds please? ~~and see if we can have test coverage for Windows (just using a 0 flag for instance would be sufficient).~~

According to https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket.send_fds, send_fds and recv_fds are is available on Windows and Unix, so we should be able to have tests for them as well.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-15-22-50-41.gh-issue-128881.JBL_9E.rst

Lib/test/test_socket.py

Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <[email protected]>

GalaxySnail · 2025-06-02T04:21:50Z

I found that FreeBSD doesn't seem to support receiving only 1 file descriptor with recvmsg. Using CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int)) leads to MSG_CTRUNC, while CMSG_LEN(2 * sizeof(int)) is required to successfully receive a single file descriptor.

Here is a POC: https://fars.ee/Ih-8/c

$ curl https://fars.ee/Ih-8 -o foo.c
$ cc -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -std=c17 foo.c && truss -o out.txt ./a.out && ggrep -E 'sendmsg|recvmsg' out.txt
sendmsg(3,{NULL,0,[{"Hello world!",12}],1,{{level=SOL_SOCKET,type=SCM_RIGHTS,data={0x01,0x00,0x00,0x00}}},20,0},0) = 12 (0xc)
recvmsg(4,{NULL,0,[{"Hello world!",12}],1,{},0,MSG_CTRUNC},0) = 12 (0xc)
$ gsed -i 's|fds\[\] = {1}|fds[] = {1, 2}|' foo.c
$ cc -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -std=c17 foo.c && truss -o out.txt ./a.out && ggrep -E 'sendmsg|recvmsg' out.txt
sendmsg(3,{NULL,0,[{"Hello world!",12}],1,{{level=SOL_SOCKET,type=SCM_RIGHTS,data={0x01,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x02,0x00,0x00,0x00}}},24,0},0) = 12 (0xc)
recvmsg(4,{NULL,0,[{"Hello world!",12}],1,{{level=SOL_SOCKET,type=SCM_RIGHTS,data={0x05,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x06,0x00,0x00,0x00}}},24,0},0) = 12 (0xc)

This reverts commit b130108.

Lib/test/test_socket.py

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picnixz

We are close to the end!

Lib/test/test_socket.py

picnixz · 2025-06-22T08:05:42Z

Lib/socket.py


        # Array of ints
        fds = array.array("i")
        msg, ancdata, flags, addr = sock.recvmsg(bufsize,


Let's rename the result flags as msg_flags to be consistent with the signature (don't forget to update return ...)

picnixz · 2025-06-22T08:10:38Z

Lib/test/test_socket.py

+        assert len(msg) < 512
+        os.write(wfd, msg)
+        data = os.read(rfd, 512)
+        self.assertEqual(data, msg)


Suggested change

assert len(msg) < 512

os.write(wfd, msg)

data = os.read(rfd, 512)

self.assertEqual(data, msg)

os.write(wfd, msg)

data = os.read(rfd, len(msg))

self.assertEqual(data, msg)

I think we can do it like this right?

man 7 pipe says:

POSIX.1 says that writes of less than PIPE_BUF bytes must be atomic: the output data is written to the pipe as a contiguous sequence. [...] POSIX.1 requires PIPE_BUF to be at least 512 bytes.

I hardcoded 512 here, which may look confusing. I've updated it to make it more clear.

Lib/test/test_socket.py

picnixz · 2025-06-22T08:16:16Z

Lib/test/test_socket.py

+            self._test_pipe(fds[0], wfd, MSG)
+
+    @requireAttrs(socket, "MSG_DONTWAIT")
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform in ("darwin",),


Above, the test for sendmsg only enabled it for @skipWithClientIf(sys.platform not in {"linux", "android", "freebsd"}. I think it's better if we check this here as well because there might be more platforms than {"linux", "android", "freebsd", "darwin"} in the future.

Or: we change the test above with @skipWithClientIf(sys.platform not in ("darwin",) instead and add @requireAttrs(socket, "MSG_DONTWAIT")

According to PEP 11, it should be safe to replace @skipWithClientIf(sys.platform not in {"linux", "android", "freebsd"}) with @requireAttrs(socket, "MSG_DONTWAIT") and @skipWithClientIf(sys.platform not in ("darwin",)) on all supported platforms. If this test fails on any other platform, we can update it as needed.

Lib/test/test_socket.py

picnixz · 2025-06-22T08:19:13Z

Lib/test/test_socket.py

+        self._test_pipe(fds[0], wfd, MSG)
+
+    @requireAttrs(socket, "MSG_PEEK")
+    @unittest.skipUnless(sys.platform in ("linux", "android"), "works on Linux")


I'm back here, but does it work on freebsd?

Unfortunately no. On FreeBSD recvmsg with MSG_PEEK returns random bytes in the ancillary data, which looks like some kind of uninitialized memory.

Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <[email protected]>

picnixz

LGTM. I'll let @gpshead have a look

Fix address and flags for send_fds/recv_fds

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gh-122153: indicate that Windows does not support socket.{send,recv}_fds #134960

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skip sendmsg with MSG_DONTWAIT test on macOS

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try enabling test_recv_fds_peek on macOS

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extract the logic into _recv_one_fd method

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