[jira] [Created] (ZOOKEEPER-2810) Racy implicit ZKDatabase creation

["Paul Millar (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Paul Millar created ZOOKEEPER-2810:
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             Summary: Racy implicit ZKDatabase creation
                 Key: ZOOKEEPER-2810
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2810
             Project: ZooKeeper
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: server
    Affects Versions: 3.4.8
            Reporter: Paul Millar
            Priority: Minor


The NIOServerCnxnFactory#startup method first starts the acceptor thread and then initialises the ZooKeeperServer instance.  In particular, the call to ZooKeeperServer#startdata method creates the ZKDatabase if it does not already exist.

This creates a race-condition: if the acceptor thread accepts an incoming connection before the ZKDatabase is established then there is a NullPointerException:

{noformat}
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer.processConnectRequest(ZooKeeperServer.java:864) ~[zookeeper-3.4.8.jar:3.4.8--1]
	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxn.readConnectRequest(NIOServerCnxn.java:418) ~[zookeeper-3.4.8.jar:3.4.8--1]
	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxn.readPayload(NIOServerCnxn.java:198) ~[zookeeper-3.4.8.jar:3.4.8--1]
	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxn.doIO(NIOServerCnxn.java:244) ~[zookeeper-3.4.8.jar:3.4.8--1]
	at org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxnFactory.run(NIOServerCnxnFactory.java:203) ~[zookeeper-3.4.8.jar:3.4.8--1]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [na:1.8.0_131]
{noformat}

The same problem appears to be present in release-3.5 and master branches.

The naive fix would be to start the acceptor thread last in NIOServerCnxnFactory#startup, but I can't say whether this would cause any other problems.



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