Endless polling EOF socket

Bug report

Bug description:

Hello,

I have this very simple code to attempt a TCP connection to a given host. The linux machine where I run this has tsocks library installed, to transparently redirect connections over socks server. If the target IP accessed through the socks server refuses the connection, the code will end in an endless unbreakable loop.

def tcp_connect(ip, port):
    """Attempt a TCP connection to the given IP and port."""
    try:
        sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        sock.settimeout(5)
        result = sock.connect_ex((ip, port))
        sock.close()

Timeout has no effect, ctrl+c on the console doesn't break it.

Connection attempt with some command line utility ends correctly.

$ ssh 1.1.1.1
ssh: connect to host 1.1.1.1 port 22: Transport endpoint is not connected
$ ldp telnet 1.1.1.1 22
Trying 1.1.1.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Transport endpoint is not connected

I tried running strace to see what happens during that endless loop and this is the result :

getpeername(3, 0x7ffd6c12e3f0, [16])    = -1 ENOTCONN (Transport endpoint is not connected)
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(2224), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.17.0.1")}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS (Operation now in progress)
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLOUT}], 1, 5000) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}])
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(2224), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.17.0.1")}, 16) = 0
sendto(3, "\5\2\0\2", 4, 0, NULL, 0)    = 4
recvfrom(3, "\5\0", 2, 0, NULL, NULL)   = 2
sendto(3, "\5\1\0\1\225\203f\211\0\26", 10, 0, NULL, 0) = 10
recvfrom(3, 0x55944406ddd8, 10, 0, NULL, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000)  = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
recvfrom(3, "", 10, 0, NULL, NULL)      = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000)  = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
recvfrom(3, "", 10, 0, NULL, NULL)      = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000)  = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
recvfrom(3, "", 10, 0, NULL, NULL)      = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000)  = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
recvfrom(3, "", 10, 0, NULL, NULL)      = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000)  = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
recvfrom(3, "", 10, 0, NULL, NULL)      = 0

<continues until sigkill while hogging 100% CPU>

I don't understand it that much, but LLM seems to believe, that the socket is getting polled despite EOF, which is supposedly an error.

Edit:
For comparison, this is how the strace on that telnet looks like

getpeername(3, 0x7ffd4d54e260, [16])    = -1 ENOTCONN (Transport endpoint is not connected)
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(2224), sin_addr=inet_addr("172.17.0.1")}, 16) = 0
sendto(3, "\5\2\0\2", 4, 0, NULL, 0)    = 4
recvfrom(3, "\5\0", 2, 0, NULL, NULL)   = 2
sendto(3, "\5\1\0\1\225\203f\211\0\26", 10, 0, NULL, 0) = 10
recvfrom(3, "", 10, 0, NULL, NULL)      = 0
write(2, "telnet: Unable to connect to rem"..., 78telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Transport endpoint is not connected
) = 78
close(3)                                = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?
+++ exited with 1 +++

Thank you for your attention.

CPython versions tested on:

3.10

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Beginne mit dem tcp_connect-Snippet im Bericht und reproduziere es unter Linux mit Python 3.10 und tsocks. Vergleiche anschließend dessen strace mit dem funktionierenden telnet-Fall. Verfolge das Verhalten von socket und connect_ex bei wiederholten EOF-Lesevorgängen, um festzustellen, ob die Schleife in CPython oder in der transparenten Proxy-Schicht liegt. Erledigt ist die Aufgabe, wenn das verantwortliche Verhalten identifiziert wurde und das Issue über einen reproduzierbaren Regressionstest oder eine eindeutige Lösung verfügt.