python3.14/00466-downstream-only-lower-xml_combined_version-threshold-for-reparse-deferral.patch
Miro Hrončok 9d987df726 On EL 9, also supports reparse deferral in expat
This replaces one downstream-only patch with another.
Yet arguably, this is the safer thing to do.

Read the patch description for details; won't copy paste them here.

Also, require expat >= version-release when expat < 2.7.4.

Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.6
(cherry picked from python3.13 commit 0ca3f59c07cb0d9bf01a0746d00773ed0c625755)
2026-08-18 10:30:51 +02:00

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From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Miro=20Hron=C4=8Dok?= <miro@hroncok.cz>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:18:39 +0200
Subject: 00466: Downstream only: Lower XML_COMBINED_VERSION threshold for
reparse deferral
RHEL 9 expat 2.5.0 has XML_SetReparseDeferralEnabled backported
via the CVE-2023-52425 fix, but XML_COMBINED_VERSION remains 20500.
CPython's #if XML_COMBINED_VERSION >= 20600 guards compile the setter
as a no-op, so SetReparseDeferralEnabled silently does nothing and
GetReparseDeferralEnabled always returns False, even though the expat
library actually supports (and enables) reparse deferral.
Lower the threshold from 20600 to 20500 so that CPython uses the
backported function. This makes the Python API actually work on RHEL 9
and fixes test failures (test_reparse_deferral_disabled,
test_flush_reparse_deferral_disabled, test_simple_xml_chunk_*).
The spec file BuildRequires expat-devel >= 2.5.0-2 to ensure the
backported function is available.
---
Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py | 6 +++---
Lib/test/test_sax.py | 4 ++--
Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py | 4 ++--
Modules/pyexpat.c | 6 +++---
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
index fd3077063b..34f86e2dbd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ def test_error_path_no_crash(self):
class ReparseDeferralTest(unittest.TestCase):
def test_getter_setter_round_trip(self):
parser = expat.ParserCreate()
- enabled = (expat.version_info >= (2, 6, 0))
+ enabled = (expat.version_info >= (2, 5, 0))
self.assertIs(parser.GetReparseDeferralEnabled(), enabled)
parser.SetReparseDeferralEnabled(False)
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ def test_getter_setter_round_trip(self):
self.assertIs(parser.GetReparseDeferralEnabled(), enabled)
def test_reparse_deferral_enabled(self):
- if expat.version_info < (2, 6, 0):
+ if expat.version_info < (2, 5, 0):
self.skipTest(f'Expat {expat.version_info} does not '
'support reparse deferral')
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ def start_element(name, _):
parser = expat.ParserCreate()
parser.StartElementHandler = start_element
- if expat.version_info >= (2, 6, 0):
+ if expat.version_info >= (2, 5, 0):
parser.SetReparseDeferralEnabled(False)
self.assertFalse(parser.GetReparseDeferralEnabled())
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sax.py b/Lib/test/test_sax.py
index 5c10bcedc6..114f002b0b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sax.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sax.py
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ def test_expat_incremental_reset(self):
self.assertEqual(result.getvalue(), start + b"<doc>text</doc>")
- @unittest.skipIf(pyexpat.version_info < (2, 6, 0),
+ @unittest.skipIf(pyexpat.version_info < (2, 5, 0),
f'Expat {pyexpat.version_info} does not '
'support reparse deferral')
def test_flush_reparse_deferral_enabled(self):
@@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@ def test_flush_reparse_deferral_disabled(self):
for chunk in ("<doc", ">"):
parser.feed(chunk)
- if pyexpat.version_info >= (2, 6, 0):
+ if pyexpat.version_info >= (2, 5, 0):
parser._parser.SetReparseDeferralEnabled(False)
self.assertEqual(result.getvalue(), start) # i.e. no elements started
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
index 6da7c34dc4..d846ddf4e2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
@@ -1803,7 +1803,7 @@ def test_unknown_event(self):
with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "unknown event 'bogus'"):
ET.XMLPullParser(events=(x.decode() for x in (b'start', b'end', b'bogus')))
- @unittest.skipIf(pyexpat.version_info < (2, 6, 0),
+ @unittest.skipIf(pyexpat.version_info < (2, 5, 0),
f'Expat {pyexpat.version_info} does not '
'support reparse deferral')
def test_flush_reparse_deferral_enabled(self):
@@ -1833,7 +1833,7 @@ def test_flush_reparse_deferral_disabled(self):
for chunk in ("<doc", ">"):
parser.feed(chunk)
- if pyexpat.version_info >= (2, 6, 0):
+ if pyexpat.version_info >= (2, 5, 0):
if not ET is pyET:
self.skipTest(f'XMLParser.(Get|Set)ReparseDeferralEnabled '
'methods not available in C')
diff --git a/Modules/pyexpat.c b/Modules/pyexpat.c
index f9fd7a7a5b..e88b7f16a8 100644
--- a/Modules/pyexpat.c
+++ b/Modules/pyexpat.c
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ pyexpat_xmlparser_SetReparseDeferralEnabled_impl(xmlparseobject *self,
int enabled)
/*[clinic end generated code: output=5ec539e3b63c8c49 input=021eb9e0bafc32c5]*/
{
-#if XML_COMBINED_VERSION >= 20600
+#if XML_COMBINED_VERSION >= 20500
XML_SetReparseDeferralEnabled(self->itself, enabled ? XML_TRUE : XML_FALSE);
self->reparse_deferral_enabled = (bool)enabled;
#endif
@@ -1478,7 +1478,7 @@ newxmlparseobject(pyexpat_state *state, const char *encoding,
self->ns_prefixes = 0;
self->handlers = NULL;
self->intern = Py_XNewRef(intern);
-#if XML_COMBINED_VERSION >= 20600
+#if XML_COMBINED_VERSION >= 20500
self->reparse_deferral_enabled = true;
#else
self->reparse_deferral_enabled = false;
@@ -2396,7 +2396,7 @@ pyexpat_exec(PyObject *mod)
#else
capi->SetHashSalt16Bytes = NULL;
#endif
-#if XML_COMBINED_VERSION >= 20600
+#if XML_COMBINED_VERSION >= 20500
capi->SetReparseDeferralEnabled = XML_SetReparseDeferralEnabled;
#else
capi->SetReparseDeferralEnabled = NULL;