Reject reuse of finished pyexpat parsers by youknowdot · Pull Request #9583 · RustPython/RustPython

youknowdot · 2026-11-03T11:42:54Z

Summary

Reject reuse after successful final parsing with Expat error code 36 (XML_ERROR_FINISHED) rather than silently ignoring new input.
Resolve a file's read attribute before checking for completion, but do not call read() after successful completion, matching CPython's ordering for this case.
Track successful finalization separately from the backend's existing error and post-fork paths.

Verification and scope

Compared with CPython 3.15.0 Modules/pyexpat.c and Modules/expat/xmlparse.c. Independent source review covered both backends, state transitions, and ParseFile ordering.
Normal commit hooks, rustfmt, and git diff --check passed. File-level three-way merges with Validate pyexpat parser creation arguments #9575 and Validate pyexpat SetBase strings #9581 were clean.
No local build, RustPython runtime tests, workspace tests, C-API tests, or clippy ran because the required coordinated native execution guard was unavailable. Hosted CI must validate this exact commit.
Canonical test_pyexpat.test_parse_again expects the finished error, but its initial document exercises other unsupported DTD callbacks, so it does not isolate this change. No tests were edited.
The reported line and offset use existing last-event positions, which need not match Expat's EOF coordinates. This change does not fix failed-parser reuse, reentrant ParseFile behavior, or the existing read() protocol and incremental parsing limitations.

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Bug Fixes
- XML parsing now consistently reports a “parsing finished” error when additional input is submitted after a successful parse. Failed parses are not treated as successfully completed.
- File parsing now validates that the file’s read operation is available before checking whether parsing has already completed.

Return the Expat finished error on later input after successful final parsing. Check ParseFile after resolving read but before calling it. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex:model version not exposed

coderabbitai · 2026-11-03T11:43:01Z

Walkthrough

The parser now records successful completion separately from finalization. Later feed calls and ParseFile calls check this state and raise Expat error 36 after successful completion.

Changes: Expat parser completion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track successful completion `crates/stdlib/src/pyexpat.rs`	The parser initializes a `completed` flag and sets it when threaded parsing reaches `EndDocument` or a synchronous final feed succeeds. Finalization still sets `finished` and tears down the backend.
Check later parsing calls `crates/stdlib/src/pyexpat.rs`	Later feeds check for successful completion before the existing `finished` no-op path. `ParseFile` retrieves and validates the `read` attribute, checks completion, then calls the attribute directly.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

Issue 6839 — The change updates pyexpat behavior within the issue’s stated CPython 3.15 conformance scope.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 88952

The completion check precedes read() invocation as required. A focused regression test would improve confidence, but no blocking defect is established; merge after normal checks pass.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: rejecting reuse of successfully finished pyexpat parsers.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 6 functions across 1 files.

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Add a test that ParseFile does not call read() after a completed parse.

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Add a test that ParseFile does not call read() after a completed parse.

ParseFile runs check_completed before it calls read(). No existing test detects a read() call placed before that check. Both ParseFile tests are marked expectedFailure. test_parse_again checks only the XML_ERROR_FINISHED error code. Its BytesIO source returns b'' after EOF, so an early read() call would not change the observed result.

Add a file-like object that counts read() calls. Use a simple document, so the test does not depend on unsupported DTD callbacks:
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import io


class CountingReader:
    def __init__(self, data):
        self._stream = io.BytesIO(data)
        self.read_calls = 0

    def read(self, *args):
        self.read_calls += 1
        return self._stream.read(*args)


def test_parse_file_after_finish_does_not_call_read(self):
    parser = expat.ParserCreate()
    parser.Parse(b"<root/>", True)
    reader = CountingReader(b"<root/>")
    with self.assertRaises(expat.error) as cm:
        parser.ParseFile(reader)
    self.assertEqual(expat.ErrorString(cm.exception.code), expat.errors.XML_ERROR_FINISHED)
    self.assertEqual(reader.read_calls, 0)
Count only calls to read(). The read attribute lookup is allowed and still happens before the completion check.

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Review comment at @crates/stdlib/src/pyexpat.rs around lines 1888 - 1889:
Add a ParseFile regression test using a file-like reader that counts read()
calls: complete a parser with a simple XML document, then call ParseFile and
assert it raises the finished-parse error without calling read(). Count read()
invocations only; allow lookup of the read attribute.

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Return the Expat finished error on later input after successful final parsing. Check ParseFile after resolving read but before calling it. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex:model version not exposed

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