[jira] [Created] (HADOOP-10487) Racy code in UserGroupInformation#ensureInitialized()

["Haohui Mai (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Haohui Mai created HADOOP-10487:
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             Summary: Racy code in UserGroupInformation#ensureInitialized()
                 Key: HADOOP-10487
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10487
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Haohui Mai
            Assignee: Haohui Mai


UserGroupInformation#ensureInitialized() uses the double-check-locking pattern to reduce the synchronization cost:

{code}
  private static void ensureInitialized() {
    if (conf == null) {
      synchronized(UserGroupInformation.class) {
        if (conf == null) { // someone might have beat us
          initialize(new Configuration(), false);
        }
      }
    }
  }
{code}

As [~tlipcon] pointed out in the original jira (HADOOP-9748). This pattern is incorrect. Please see more details in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-checked_locking and http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html

This jira proposes to use the static class holder pattern to do it correctly.



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