diff --git a/Include/internal/pycore_pystate.h b/Include/internal/pycore_pystate.h
index 423c811..0cd5550 100644
--- a/Include/internal/pycore_pystate.h
+++ b/Include/internal/pycore_pystate.h
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@
     PyObject* module,
     struct PyModuleDef* def);
 
+
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyOS_InterruptOccurred(PyThreadState *tstate);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_repl.py b/Lib/test/test_repl.py
index 71f192f..563f188 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_repl.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_repl.py
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@
     # test.support.script_helper.
     env = kw.setdefault('env', dict(os.environ))
     env['TERM'] = 'vt100'
-    return subprocess.Popen(cmd_line, executable=sys.executable,
+    return subprocess.Popen(cmd_line,
+                            executable=sys.executable,
+                            text=True,
                             stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                             stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr,
                             **kw)
@@ -49,12 +51,11 @@
             sys.exit(0)
         """
         user_input = dedent(user_input)
-        user_input = user_input.encode()
         p = spawn_repl()
         with SuppressCrashReport():
             p.stdin.write(user_input)
         output = kill_python(p)
-        self.assertIn(b'After the exception.', output)
+        self.assertIn('After the exception.', output)
         # Exit code 120: Py_FinalizeEx() failed to flush stdout and stderr.
         self.assertIn(p.returncode, (1, 120))
 
@@ -86,13 +87,22 @@
         </test>"""
         '''
         user_input = dedent(user_input)
-        user_input = user_input.encode()
         p = spawn_repl()
-        with SuppressCrashReport():
-            p.stdin.write(user_input)
+        p.stdin.write(user_input)
         output = kill_python(p)
         self.assertEqual(p.returncode, 0)
 
+    def test_close_stdin(self):
+        user_input = dedent('''
+            import os
+            print("before close")
+            os.close(0)
+        ''')
+        process = spawn_repl()
+        output = process.communicate(user_input)[0]
+        self.assertEqual(process.returncode, 0)
+        self.assertIn('before close', output)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-01-20-31-07.bpo-40826.XCI4M2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-01-20-31-07.bpo-40826.XCI4M2.rst
index f79f20d..a03ed18 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-01-20-31-07.bpo-40826.XCI4M2.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-01-20-31-07.bpo-40826.XCI4M2.rst
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-Fix GIL usage in :c:func:`PyOS_Readline`: lock the GIL to set an exception.
+Fix GIL usage in :c:func:`PyOS_Readline`: lock the GIL to set an exception
+and pass the Python thread state when checking if there is a pending signal.
diff --git a/Modules/signalmodule.c b/Modules/signalmodule.c
index 24dbd42..ef3536a 100644
--- a/Modules/signalmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/signalmodule.c
@@ -1779,10 +1779,11 @@
     finisignal();
 }
 
+
+// The caller doesn't have to hold the GIL
 int
-PyOS_InterruptOccurred(void)
+_PyOS_InterruptOccurred(PyThreadState *tstate)
 {
-    PyThreadState *tstate = _PyThreadState_GET();
     _Py_EnsureTstateNotNULL(tstate);
     if (!_Py_ThreadCanHandleSignals(tstate->interp)) {
         return 0;
@@ -1797,6 +1798,15 @@
 }
 
 
+// The caller must to hold the GIL
+int
+PyOS_InterruptOccurred(void)
+{
+    PyThreadState *tstate = _PyThreadState_GET();
+    return _PyOS_InterruptOccurred(tstate);
+}
+
+
 #ifdef HAVE_FORK
 static void
 _clear_pending_signals(void)
diff --git a/Parser/myreadline.c b/Parser/myreadline.c
index d2787f0..2dd3623 100644
--- a/Parser/myreadline.c
+++ b/Parser/myreadline.c
@@ -24,14 +24,23 @@
 int (*PyOS_InputHook)(void) = NULL;
 
 /* This function restarts a fgets() after an EINTR error occurred
-   except if PyOS_InterruptOccurred() returns true. */
+   except if _PyOS_InterruptOccurred() returns true. */
 
 static int
 my_fgets(PyThreadState* tstate, char *buf, int len, FILE *fp)
 {
 #ifdef MS_WINDOWS
-    HANDLE hInterruptEvent;
+    HANDLE handle;
+    _Py_BEGIN_SUPPRESS_IPH
+    handle = (HANDLE)_get_osfhandle(fileno(fp));
+    _Py_END_SUPPRESS_IPH
+
+    /* bpo-40826: fgets(fp) does crash if fileno(fp) is closed */
+    if (handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
+        return -1; /* EOF */
+    }
 #endif
+
     while (1) {
         if (PyOS_InputHook != NULL) {
             (void)(PyOS_InputHook)();
@@ -60,7 +69,7 @@
            through to check for EOF.
         */
         if (GetLastError()==ERROR_OPERATION_ABORTED) {
-            hInterruptEvent = _PyOS_SigintEvent();
+            HANDLE hInterruptEvent = _PyOS_SigintEvent();
             switch (WaitForSingleObjectEx(hInterruptEvent, 10, FALSE)) {
             case WAIT_OBJECT_0:
                 ResetEvent(hInterruptEvent);
@@ -90,7 +99,7 @@
         }
 #endif
 
-        if (PyOS_InterruptOccurred()) {
+        if (_PyOS_InterruptOccurred(tstate)) {
             return 1; /* Interrupt */
         }
         return -2; /* Error */