[jira] Reopened: (HADOOP-7033) getUserToGroupsMappingService is not thread safe

["Aaron T. Myers (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7033?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Aaron T. Myers reopened HADOOP-7033:
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Though HADOOP-7046 may address the findbugs warning, the underlying synchronization issue remains, and should be addressed. I think we should leave this open until it is.

> getUserToGroupsMappingService is not thread safe
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-7033
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7033
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: security
>    Affects Versions: 0.22.0
>            Reporter: Eli Collins
>            Assignee: Po Cheung
>             Fix For: 0.22.0
>
>
> test-patch on trunk reports the following findbugs warning:
> {noformat}
> Incorrect lazy initialization of static field org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.GROUPS in org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.getUserToGroupsMappingService(Configuration)
> Bug type LI_LAZY_INIT_STATIC (click for details) 
> In class org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups
> In method org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.getUserToGroupsMappingService(Configuration)
> On field org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.GROUPS
> At Groups.java:[lines 138-142]
> {noformat}
> The relevant code:
> {noformat}
>   public static Groups getUserToGroupsMappingService(Configuration conf) {
>     if(GROUPS == null) {
>       if(LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
>         LOG.debug(" Creating new Groups object");
>       }
>       GROUPS = new Groups(conf);
>     }
>     return GROUPS;
>   }
> {noformat}
> This is problematic if getUserToGroupsMappingService can accessed simultaneously by multiple threads.

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