Issue #22185: Fix an occasional RuntimeError in threading.Condition.wait() caused by mutation of the waiters queue without holding the lock.

Patch by Doug Zongker.

Lib/threading.py

@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ class Condition:
         waiter.acquire()
         self._waiters.append(waiter)
         saved_state = self._release_save()
+        gotit = False
         try:    # restore state no matter what (e.g., KeyboardInterrupt)
             if timeout is None:
                 waiter.acquire()
@@ -299,14 +300,14 @@ class Condition:
                     gotit = waiter.acquire(True, timeout)
                 else:
                     gotit = waiter.acquire(False)
+            return gotit
+        finally:
+            self._acquire_restore(saved_state)
             if not gotit:
                 try:
                     self._waiters.remove(waiter)
                 except ValueError:
                     pass
-            return gotit
-        finally:
-            self._acquire_restore(saved_state)
 
     def wait_for(self, predicate, timeout=None):
         """Wait until a condition evaluates to True.

Misc/ACKS

@@ -1518,4 +1518,5 @@ Cheng Zhang
 Kai Zhu
 Tarek Ziadé
 Gennadiy Zlobin
+Doug Zongker
 Peter Åstrand

Misc/NEWS

@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #22185: Fix an occasional RuntimeError in threading.Condition.wait()
+  caused by mutation of the waiters queue without holding the lock.  Patch
+  by Doug Zongker.
+
 - Issue #22287: On UNIX, _PyTime_gettimeofday() now uses
   clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) if available. As a side effect, Python now
   depends on the librt library on Solaris and on Linux (only with glibc older