gh-95243: Mitigate the race condition in testSockName (#96173)

find_unused_port() has an inherent race condition, but we can't use
bind_port() as that uses .getsockname() which this test is exercising.

Try binding to unused ports a few times before failing.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>

Author: rossburton

Lib/test/test_socket.py

@@ -1398,10 +1398,21 @@ def testStringToIPv6(self):
 
     def testSockName(self):
         # Testing getsockname()
-        port = socket_helper.find_unused_port()
         sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
         self.addCleanup(sock.close)
-        sock.bind(("0.0.0.0", port))
+
+        # Since find_unused_port() is inherently subject to race conditions, we
+        # call it a couple times if necessary.
+        for i in itertools.count():
+            port = socket_helper.find_unused_port()
+            try:
+                sock.bind(("0.0.0.0", port))
+            except OSError as e:
+                if e.errno != errno.EADDRINUSE or i == 5:
+                    raise
+            else:
+                break
+
         name = sock.getsockname()
         # XXX(nnorwitz): http://tinyurl.com/os5jz seems to indicate
         # it reasonable to get the host's addr in addition to 0.0.0.0.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2022-08-22-14-59-42.gh-issue-95243.DeD66V.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Mitigate the inherent race condition from using find_unused_port() in
+testSockName() by trying to find an unused port a few times before failing.
+Patch by Ross Burton.