[jira] [Assigned] (ZOOKEEPER-1856) zookeeper C-client can fail to switch from a dead server in a 3+ server ensemble if the client only has a 2 server list.

["Michi Mutsuzaki (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1856?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Michi Mutsuzaki reassigned ZOOKEEPER-1856:
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    Assignee: Michi Mutsuzaki

> zookeeper C-client can fail to switch from a dead server in a 3+ server ensemble if the client only has a 2 server list.
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>                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-1856
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1856
>             Project: ZooKeeper
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: c client
>            Reporter: Dutch T. Meyer
>            Assignee: Michi Mutsuzaki
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: ZOOKEEPER-1856.patch
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> If a client has a 2 server list, and is currently connected to the last server in that list, and that server then goes offline, the addrvec_next() call handle_error() will push the client to the start of the list and terminate the connection.
> Then, the zoo_cycle_next_server() call in zookeeper_interest will be called in response to the connection failure, and the client will cycle back to the failed server.
> In this way, a client who has a list of only 2 servers can get stuck on the one failed server.  This would only be an issue in an ensemble larger than 2 of course, because failing 1 out of 2 would lead to quorum loss anyway.
> There are other harmonics possible if every other server in the list is failed, but this is simplest to reproduce in a 3 server ensemble where the client only knows about 2 servers, one of which then fails.  There are probably some elegant fixes here, but I think the simplest is to add a flag to track whether a server has been accessed before, and if it hasn't, don't call zoo_cycle_next_server() at the top of the zookeeper_interest() function.



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