diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
index dea472335b0b34..88fbe76b8d1e89 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ def test_change_size_2(self):
     @support.requires_resource('cpu')
     @support.requires_resource('walltime')
     @support.bigmemtest(size=2**31, memuse=4, dry_run=False)
-    def test_large_character_data_does_not_crash(self):
+    def test_large_character_data_does_not_crash(self, size):
         # See https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/148441
         parser = expat.ParserCreate()
         parser.buffer_text = True