gh-90467: StreamReaderProtocol - add strong reference to created task (#96323)

diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/streams.py b/Lib/asyncio/streams.py
index 9a169035de8865ff67d323e1ecd731c9a62820a4..614b2cda60682fffcbb44724f6f678ed7fc6a259 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/asyncio/streams.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/streams.py
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ class StreamReaderProtocol(FlowControlMixin, protocols.Protocol):
             self._strong_reader = stream_reader
         self._reject_connection = False
         self._stream_writer = None
+        self._task = None
         self._transport = None
         self._client_connected_cb = client_connected_cb
         self._over_ssl = False
@@ -247,7 +248,7 @@ class StreamReaderProtocol(FlowControlMixin, protocols.Protocol):
             res = self._client_connected_cb(reader,
                                             self._stream_writer)
             if coroutines.iscoroutine(res):
-                self._loop.create_task(res)
+                self._task = self._loop.create_task(res)
             self._strong_reader = None
 
     def connection_lost(self, exc):
@@ -265,6 +266,7 @@ class StreamReaderProtocol(FlowControlMixin, protocols.Protocol):
         super().connection_lost(exc)
         self._stream_reader_wr = None
         self._stream_writer = None
+        self._task = None
         self._transport = None
 
     def data_received(self, data):

diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index daa01c1a0f1dbbdbfd76811bc93abb4ae3eec5f1..0edea9219d05ef4b7b544eea679cde3d8961d4c3 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1442,6 +1442,7 @@ Ram Rachum
 Jeffrey Rackauckas
 Jérôme Radix
 Burton Radons
+Kirill (python273) R.
 Abhilash Raj
 Shorya Raj
 Ajith Ramachandran
@@ -1987,6 +1988,7 @@ Gordon Worley
 Darren Worrall
 Thomas Wouters
 Daniel Wozniak
+Simon Wrede
 Marcin Niemira
 Wei Wu
 Heiko Wundram

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-08-27-14-38-49.gh-issue-90467.VOOB0p.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-08-27-14-38-49.gh-issue-90467.VOOB0p.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..282c0e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-08-27-14-38-49.gh-issue-90467.VOOB0p.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix :class:`asyncio.streams.StreamReaderProtocol` to keep a strong reference
+to the created task, so that it's not garbage collected