bpo-37658: Fix asyncio.wait_for() to respect waited task status (GH-21894) (#21965)

Currently, if `asyncio.wait_for()` itself is cancelled it will always
raise `CancelledError` regardless if the underlying task is still
running.  This is similar to a race with the timeout, which is handled
already.
(cherry picked from commit a2118a1)

Co-authored-by: Elvis Pranskevichus <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Lib/asyncio/tasks.py

@@ -475,9 +475,12 @@ async def wait_for(fut, timeout, *, loop=None):
         try:
             await waiter
         except exceptions.CancelledError:
-            fut.remove_done_callback(cb)
-            fut.cancel()
-            raise
+            if fut.done():
+                return fut.result()
+            else:
+                fut.remove_done_callback(cb)
+                fut.cancel()
+                raise
 
         if fut.done():
             return fut.result()

Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_tasks.py

@@ -861,6 +861,22 @@ def gen():
         res = loop.run_until_complete(task)
         self.assertEqual(res, "ok")
 
+    def test_wait_for_cancellation_race_condition(self):
+        def gen():
+            yield 0.1
+            yield 0.1
+            yield 0.1
+            yield 0.1
+
+        loop = self.new_test_loop(gen)
+
+        fut = self.new_future(loop)
+        loop.call_later(0.1, fut.set_result, "ok")
+        task = loop.create_task(asyncio.wait_for(fut, timeout=1))
+        loop.call_later(0.1, task.cancel)
+        res = loop.run_until_complete(task)
+        self.assertEqual(res, "ok")
+
     def test_wait_for_waits_for_task_cancellation(self):
         loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
         self.addCleanup(loop.close)

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-15-15-21-40.bpo-37658.f9nivB.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+:meth:`asyncio.wait_for` now properly handles races between cancellation of
+itself and the completion of the wrapped awaitable.