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[jira] [Updated] (HBASE-4515) User.getCurrent() can fail to
initialize the current user
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4515?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Gary Helmling updated HBASE-4515:
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Affects Version/s: 0.90.4
Fix Version/s: 0.90.5
0.94.0
0.92.0
Summary: User.getCurrent() can fail to initialize the current user (was: User.getCurrent() can cause NPE.)
> User.getCurrent() can fail to initialize the current user
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-4515
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4515
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.90.4, 0.92.0, 0.94.0
> Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh
> Assignee: Gary Helmling
> Fix For: 0.92.0, 0.94.0, 0.90.5
>
> Attachments: 0001-HBASE-4515-User.getCurrent-can-cause-NPE.patch, HBASE-4515_trunk.patch
>
>
> When testing with miniclusters that shutdown and are restarted, sometimes a call to User.getCurrent().getName() NPEs when attempting to restart hbase. Oddly this happens consistently on particular branches and not on others. I don't know or understand why this happens but it has something to do with the getCurrentUGI call in o.a.h.h.security.User.HadoopUser sometimes returning null and sometimes returning data.
> {code}
> private HadoopUser() {
> try {
> ugi = (UserGroupInformation) callStatic("getCurrentUGI");
> if (ugi == null) {
> LOG.warn("Although successfully retrieved UserGroupInformation"
> + " it was null!");
> }
> } catch (RuntimeException re) {
> {code}
> This patch essentially is a workaround -- it propagates the null so that clients can check and avoid the NPE.
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