Closes #21886, #21447: Fix a race condition in asyncio when setting the result

of a Future with call_soon(). Add an helper, a private method, to set the
result only if the future was not cancelled.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/tasks.py b/Lib/asyncio/tasks.py
index dd191e770b..8c7217b702 100644
--- a/Lib/asyncio/tasks.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/tasks.py
@@ -487,7 +487,8 @@ def as_completed(fs, *, loop=None, timeout=None):
 def sleep(delay, result=None, *, loop=None):
     """Coroutine that completes after a given time (in seconds)."""
     future = futures.Future(loop=loop)
-    h = future._loop.call_later(delay, future.set_result, result)
+    h = future._loop.call_later(delay,
+                                future._set_result_unless_cancelled, result)
     try:
         return (yield from future)
     finally: