1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree_c.py b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree_c.py
index 71973ed..c48276a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree_c.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree_c.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import doctest
 import sys
 
 from test import support
+from test.support import precisionbigmemtest, _2G
+import unittest
 
 ET = support.import_module('xml.etree.cElementTree')
 
@@ -212,9 +214,25 @@ def bug_1534630():
     '<tag />'
     """
 
+class MiscTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    # Issue #8651.
+    @support.precisionbigmemtest(size=support._2G + 100, memuse=1)
+    def test_length_overflow(self, size):
+        if size < support._2G + 100:
+            self.skipTest("not enough free memory, need at least 2 GB")
+        data = b'x' * size
+        parser = ET.XMLParser()
+        try:
+            self.assertRaises(OverflowError, parser.feed, data)
+        finally:
+            data = None
+
+
 def test_main():
     from test import test_xml_etree_c
     support.run_doctest(test_xml_etree_c, verbosity=True)
 
+    support.run_unittest(MiscTests)
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     test_main()