bpo-34521: Fix tests in test_multiprocessing_spawn to use correctly CMSG_SPACE (GH-9613)

After some failures in AMD64 FreeBSD CURRENT Debug 3.x buildbots
regarding tests in test_multiprocessing_spawn and after examining
similar failures in test_socket, some errors in the calculation of
ancillary data buffers were found in multiprocessing.reduction.

CMSG_LEN() can often be used as the buffer size for recvmsg() to
receive a single item of ancillary data, but RFC 3542 requires portable
applications to use CMSG_SPACE() and thus include space for padding,
even when the item will be the last in the buffer.

The failures we experience are due to the usage of CMSG_LEN() instead of
CMSG_SPACE().

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/reduction.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/reduction.py
index 473fd59..5593f06 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/reduction.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/reduction.py
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ else:
         '''Receive an array of fds over an AF_UNIX socket.'''
         a = array.array('i')
         bytes_size = a.itemsize * size
-        msg, ancdata, flags, addr = sock.recvmsg(1, socket.CMSG_LEN(bytes_size))
+        msg, ancdata, flags, addr = sock.recvmsg(1, socket.CMSG_SPACE(bytes_size))
         if not msg and not ancdata:
             raise EOFError
         try: