[3.12] gh-107963: Fix set_forkserver_preload to check the type of given list (GH-107965) (#107975)

miss-islington · corona10 · web-flow · commit f0a583b6fbc9 · 2023-08-15T16:56:53.000+02:00
gh-107963: Fix set_forkserver_preload to check the type of given list (GH-107965) (cherry picked from commit 6515ec3) gh-107963: Fix set_forkserver_preload to check the type of given list Co-authored-by: Dong-hee Na <donghee.na@python.org>
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/forkserver.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/forkserver.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ def _stop_unlocked(self):
 
     def set_forkserver_preload(self, modules_names):
         '''Set list of module names to try to load in forkserver process.'''
-        if not all(type(mod) is str for mod in self._preload_modules):
+        if not all(type(mod) is str for mod in modules_names):
             raise TypeError('module_names must be a list of strings')
         self._preload_modules = modules_names
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -5331,6 +5331,14 @@ def test_context(self):
             self.assertRaises(ValueError, ctx.set_start_method, None)
             self.check_context(ctx)
 
+    def test_context_check_module_types(self):
+        try:
+            ctx = multiprocessing.get_context('forkserver')
+        except ValueError:
+            raise unittest.SkipTest('forkserver should be available')
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, 'module_names must be a list of strings'):
+            ctx.set_forkserver_preload([1, 2, 3])
+
     def test_set_get(self):
         multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload(PRELOAD)
         count = 0
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-08-15-18-20-00.gh-issue-107963.20g5BG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-08-15-18-20-00.gh-issue-107963.20g5BG.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix :func:`multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload` to check the given list
+of modules names. Patch by Dong-hee Na.

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
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	`1`	+Fix :func:`multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload` to check the given list
	`2`	`+of modules names. Patch by Dong-hee Na.`