bpo-30414: multiprocessing.Queue._feed do not break from main loop on exc (#1683)

* bpo-30414: multiprocesing.Queue._feed do not break from main loop on exc

Queue background running thread was not handling exceptions correctly.
Any exception occurred inside thread (putting unpickable object) cause
feeder to finish running. After that every message put into queue is
silently ignored.

* bpo-30414: multiprocesing.Queue._feed do not break from main loop on exc

Queue background running thread was not handling exceptions correctly.
Any exception occurred inside thread (putting unpickable object) cause
feeder to finish running. After that every message put into queue is
silently ignored.

Lib/multiprocessing/queues.py

@@ -221,8 +221,8 @@ class Queue(object):
         else:
             wacquire = None
 
-        try:
         while 1:
+            try:
                 nacquire()
                 try:
                     if not buffer:
@@ -256,14 +256,12 @@ class Queue(object):
                 # may be become unusable while the process is cleaning up.
                 # We ignore errors which happen after the process has
                 # started to cleanup.
-            try:
                 if is_exiting():
                     info('error in queue thread: %s', e)
+                    return
                 else:
                     import traceback
                     traceback.print_exc()
-            except Exception:
-                pass
 
 _sentinel = object()
 

Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py

@@ -752,6 +752,20 @@ class _TestQueue(BaseTestCase):
         # Windows (usually 15.6 ms)
         self.assertGreaterEqual(delta, 0.170)
 
+    def test_queue_feeder_donot_stop_onexc(self):
+        # bpo-30414: verify feeder handles exceptions correctly
+        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
+            self.skipTest('test not appropriate for {}'.format(self.TYPE))
+
+        class NotSerializable(object):
+            def __reduce__(self):
+                raise AttributeError
+        with test.support.captured_stderr():
+            q = self.Queue()
+            q.put(NotSerializable())
+            q.put(True)
+            self.assertTrue(q.get(timeout=0.1))
+
 #
 #
 #

Misc/NEWS

@@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- bpo-30414: multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running
+  thread do not break from main loop on exception.
+
 - bpo-30003: Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec.  Based on patch
   by Ma Lin.