python · vstinner · Sep 25, 2023 · Sep 25, 2023
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@


 if support.check_sanitizer(address=True):
-    # bpo-45200: Skip multiprocessing tests if Python is built with ASAN to
+    # gh-89363: Skip multiprocessing tests if Python is built with ASAN to
    # work around a libasan race condition: dead lock in pthread_create().
    raise unittest.SkipTest("libasan has a pthread_create() dead lock")


diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
@@ -572,6 +572,10 @@ def background_thread(evt):
        self.assertEqual(err, b'')

    @support.requires_fork()
+    # gh-89363: Skip multiprocessing tests if Python is built with ASAN to
+    # work around a libasan race condition: dead lock in pthread_create().
+    @support.skip_if_sanitizer("libasan has a pthread_create() dead lock",
+                               address=True)
    def test_is_alive_after_fork(self):
        # Try hard to trigger #18418: is_alive() could sometimes be True on
        # threads that vanished after a fork.