gh-122179: Fix hashlib.file_digest and non-blocking I/O (GH-122183)

* Fix hashlib.file_digest and non-blocking I/O
* Add documentation around this behavior
* Add versionchanged

Doc/library/hashlib.rst

@@ -270,7 +270,10 @@ a file or file-like object.
    *fileobj* must be a file-like object opened for reading in binary mode.
    It accepts file objects from  builtin :func:`open`, :class:`~io.BytesIO`
    instances, SocketIO objects from :meth:`socket.socket.makefile`, and
-   similar. The function may bypass Python's I/O and use the file descriptor
+   similar. *fileobj* must be opened in blocking mode, otherwise a
+   :exc:`BlockingIOError` may be raised.
+
+   The function may bypass Python's I/O and use the file descriptor
    from :meth:`~io.IOBase.fileno` directly. *fileobj* must be assumed to be
    in an unknown state after this function returns or raises. It is up to
    the caller to close *fileobj*.
@@ -299,6 +302,10 @@ a file or file-like object.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.11
 
+   .. versionchanged:: next
+      Now raises a :exc:`BlockingIOError` if the file is opened in blocking
+      mode. Previously, spurious null bytes were added to the digest.
+
 
 Key derivation
 --------------

Lib/hashlib.py

@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ def file_digest(fileobj, digest, /, *, _bufsize=2**18):
     view = memoryview(buf)
     while True:
         size = fileobj.readinto(buf)
+        if size is None:
+            raise BlockingIOError("I/O operation would block.")
         if size == 0:
             break  # EOF
         digestobj.update(view[:size])

Lib/test/test_hashlib.py

@@ -1199,6 +1199,15 @@ def test_file_digest(self):
         with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
             hashlib.file_digest(None, "sha256")
 
+        class NonBlocking:
+            def readinto(self, buf):
+                return None
+            def readable(self):
+                return True
+
+        with self.assertRaises(BlockingIOError):
+            hashlib.file_digest(NonBlocking(), hashlib.sha256)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-23-17-08-41.gh-issue-122179.0jZm9h.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+:func:`hashlib.file_digest` now raises :exc:`BlockingIOError` when no data
+is available during non-blocking I/O. Before, it added spurious null bytes
+to the digest.