It was always meant to be released for parallelization.
This now matches the other similar code in the module.
Thanks michaelforney for noticing!
--- /dev/null
+:mod:`hmac` computations were not releasing the GIL while calling the
+OpenSSL ``HMAC_Update`` C API (a new feature in 3.9). This unintentionally
+prevented parallel computation as other :mod:`hashlib` algorithms support.
}
if (self->lock != NULL) {
- ENTER_HASHLIB(self);
+ Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+ PyThread_acquire_lock(self->lock, 1);
r = HMAC_Update(self->ctx, (const unsigned char*)view.buf, view.len);
- LEAVE_HASHLIB(self);
+ PyThread_release_lock(self->lock);
+ Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
} else {
r = HMAC_Update(self->ctx, (const unsigned char*)view.buf, view.len);
}