[jira] [Assigned] (ARROW-16958) [C++][FlightRPC] Flight generates misaligned buffers

["David Li (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16958?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

David Li reassigned ARROW-16958:
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    Assignee: David Li

> [C++][FlightRPC] Flight generates misaligned buffers
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-16958
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16958
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: C++, FlightRPC
>            Reporter: David Li
>            Assignee: David Li
>            Priority: Major
>
> Protobuf's wire format design + our zero-copy serializer/deserializer mean that buffers can end up misaligned. On some Arrow versions, this can cause segfaults in kernels assuming alignment (and generally violates expectations). 
> We should:
> * Possibly include buffer alignment in array validation
> * See if we can adjust the serializer to somehow pad things properly
> * See if we can do anything about this in the deserializer
> Example:
> {code:python}
> import pyarrow as pa
> import pyarrow.flight as flight
> class TestServer(flight.FlightServerBase):
>     def do_get(self, context, ticket):
>         schema = pa.schema(
>             [
>                 ("index", pa.int64()),
>                 ("int8", pa.float64()),
>                 ("int16", pa.float64()),
>                 ("int32", pa.float64()),
>             ]
>         )
>         return flight.RecordBatchStream(pa.table([
>             [0, 1, 2, 3],
>             [0, 1, None, 3],
>             [0, 1, 2, None],
>             [0, None, 2, 3],
>         ], schema=schema))
> with TestServer() as server:
>     client = flight.connect(f"grpc://localhost:{server.port}")
>     table = client.do_get(flight.Ticket(b"")).read_all()
>     for col in table:
>         print(col.type)
>         for chunk in col.chunks:
>             for buf in chunk.buffers():
>                 if not buf: continue
>                 print("buffer is 8-byte aligned?", buf.address % 8)
>             chunk.cast(pa.float32())
> {code}
> On Arrow 8
> {noformat}
> int64
> buffer is 8-byte aligned? 1
> double
> buffer is 8-byte aligned? 1
> buffer is 8-byte aligned? 1
> double
> buffer is 8-byte aligned? 1
> buffer is 8-byte aligned? 1
> double
> buffer is 8-byte aligned? 1
> buffer is 8-byte aligned? 1
> {noformat}
> On Arrow 7
> {noformat}
> int64
> buffer is 8-byte aligned? 4
> double
> buffer is 8-byte aligned? 4
> buffer is 8-byte aligned? 4
> fish: Job 1, 'python ../test.py' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)
> {noformat}



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