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[I] [Bug] Tiered storage misreports transient upload failures as file-size lookup errors [rocketmq]
lizhimins opened a new issue, #11168:
URL: https://github.com/apache/rocketmq/issues/11168
### Before Creating the Bug Report
- [x] I found a bug, not just asking a question.
- [x] I have searched the GitHub Issues and Discussions of this repository and believe that this is not a duplicate.
- [x] I have confirmed that this bug belongs to the current repository, not other repositories of RocketMQ.
### Runtime platform environment
Linux / Kubernetes. Tiered storage enabled with an S3-style object storage provider (Alibaba Cloud OSS) behind an HTTP load balancer.
### RocketMQ version
`develop`. The affected code paths are unchanged since `026a910b26` (#7899, 2024-03-18), so 5.3.x / 5.4.x / 5.5.x are all affected. Observed in production on builds pinning kernel `5.2.1.7`, `5.3.2-10`, `5.3.2-18` and `5.5.0-8`.
### JDK Version
Not JDK specific (observed on 11 and 21).
### Describe the Bug
Five independent defects in the tiered storage module, found while analysing 24h of production `tiered_store.log` in one region (302M lines, of which 16,902 ERROR).
**1. A transient upload failure is reported as `get file size error after commit`, although no size lookup ever happened.**
`TieredStoreException` defaults `position` to `-1` (`exception/TieredStoreException.java:23`), which collides with `FileSegment.GET_FILE_SIZE_ERROR = -1L` (`provider/FileSegment.java:42`). In `handleCommitException`:
```java
long fileSize = rootCause instanceof TieredStoreException ?
((TieredStoreException) rootCause).getPosition() : this.getSize();
if (fileSize == GET_FILE_SIZE_ERROR) {
log.error("... get file size error after commit ...");
```
`OSSFileSegment`-style providers only call `setPosition()` when they received an HTTP error response. A transport-level failure (`RemotelyClosedException`, `Connection reset by peer`) has no response, so `position` stays `-1`, is read back as `fileSize`, and takes the same branch as a genuinely failed HEAD. The message names a lookup that never ran.
Production evidence: in 7,379 occurrences over 24h, `expect == commit + content` held in every single line, i.e. all values were local and no branch ever performed a remote lookup.
**2. `handleCommitException` can perform a blocking remote lookup on a netty IO thread.**
It is registered as `.exceptionally(this::handleCommitException)` with no executor, so it runs on whichever thread completed the future — for a network provider, a netty IO thread. Production logs confirm the thread name:
```
ERROR [AsyncHttpClient-3-4] FileSegment#handleCommitException, get file size error after commit, ...
```
The `else` side of the ternary above calls `this.getSize()`, which for a network provider is a synchronous object-metadata request. Blocking a shared IO thread stalls every other object storage request on that broker.
**3. `handleCommitException` logs three differently worded messages with three different field sets.**
One of them describes a *success* (the append landed remotely and only the response was lost) under a method named `handleCommitException`. The three messages also disagree on field names: the same quantity is `content` here and `buffer` in `commitAsync`, and `commit` is logged *after* `correctPosition` may have overwritten it, so `commit + content == expect` does not hold on the reconciled paths.
**4. `FlatAppendFile#destroyExpiredFile` deletes the remote object before unregistering its metadata.**
```java
fileSegment.destroyFile();
if (!fileSegment.exists()) {
fileSegmentTable.remove(0);
metadataStore.deleteFileSegment(filePath, fileType, fileSegment.getBaseOffset());
}
```
A crash between the delete and the unregister leaves a metadata row pointing at a deleted object. `recover()` reloads it on every restart, and every later read of that segment fails with `NoSuchKey`. In production this produced 844 such failures in 24h against only **4 distinct object names**, concentrated on 3 of 11 affected instances — the signature of permanent phantom metadata rather than transient errors.
The reverse order fails safe: an orphaned object costs storage, a phantom metadata row breaks reads forever.
**5. `FileSegment#readAsync` silently shortens a read and logs it at DEBUG.**
```java
int readableBytes = (int) (currentCommitPosition - position);
if (readableBytes < length) {
log.debug("FileSegment#readAsync, request position exceeds commit position, ...");
length = readableBytes;
}
```
The truncated buffer surfaces much later as a `MessageFormatUtil#splitMessageBuffer` failure, whose own message carries no topic, queueId or offset. The cause is therefore invisible in production: we observed 391 `message buffer offset exceeded limit` errors in 24h on one instance and could not attribute them to a queue from the logs alone.
**6. `MessageStoreFetcherImpl` compares an entry count against a byte count.**
```java
boolean cacheBusy = fetcherCache.estimatedSize() > memoryMaxSize * 0.8;
```
`estimatedSize()` counts entries; `memoryMaxSize` is bytes (`maxMemory() * readAheadCacheSizeThresholdRate`), and the cache is bounded by `maximumWeight` with a weigher returning `buffer.getSize()`. The comparison is effectively always false, so the read-ahead cache is never treated as busy.
### Steps to Reproduce
Defects 1–3 and 6 are readable directly from the code. For defect 1, any transport-level failure during `commit0` reproduces it: the provider throws without a response, `position` stays `-1`, and the log claims a file-size lookup failed.
For defect 4: kill the broker between the object delete and `deleteFileSegment`, restart, and read that segment.
For defect 5: request a range whose end exceeds the segment's `commitPosition`; the only trace is a DEBUG line.
The production numbers above come from aggregating 24h of `tiered_store.log` for one region and clustering all 16,902 ERROR lines by root cause.
### What Did You Expect to See?
- A transient upload failure reported as what it is — an append that did not land and will be reconciled on the next commit — at WARN, not as a file-size lookup error at ERROR.
- No blocking remote lookup inside a completion callback that runs on a netty IO thread.
- One log line per commit failure, with a stable field set and a discriminator for the outcome.
- Segment expiry that fails safe: metadata unregistered before the object is deleted.
- A shortened read logged at a level visible in production.
- `cacheBusy` comparing bytes against bytes.
### What Did You See Instead?
- 7,379 `get file size error after commit` ERROR lines in 24h in one region, none of which corresponded to an actual failed lookup. The real event — a transient connection reset by the object storage frontend, fully recovered by the next commit round — was indistinguishable from a genuine metadata failure.
- Those ERROR lines emitted on `AsyncHttpClient-3-N` threads.
- Three message formats for one event, one of them describing a success.
- 844 `NoSuchKey` read failures in 24h against 4 distinct object names, retried periodically forever.
- The truncation that precedes `splitMessageBuffer` failures logged only at DEBUG.
- A read-ahead cache whose busy check can never trigger.
To be explicit about what is **not** broken: the retry itself is correct and loses no data. `commitPosition` is not advanced on failure, the next `commitAsync` performs a real lookup, `correctPosition` takes the server-reported length as authoritative, and the stream is then rewound or rebuilt from `getCommitOffset()`. Measured over 24h: 4,739 distinct files across 7,274 failures (mean 1.5, max 13 for a single file), no permanently stuck file, and zero `PositionNotEqualToLength`. These defects are about reporting and about a latent IO-thread hazard, not about durability.
### Additional Context
I have a patch covering all six items on a branch, with `FileSegmentTest` extended to assert that `handleCommitException` never performs a remote lookup. `mvn -pl tieredstore test` passes (127 tests) and checkstyle is clean against `style/rmq_checkstyle.xml`. I will open the PR once this issue is numbered.
Two notes on the fix's shape, in case maintainers prefer a different split:
- Items 1–3 are one change: stop looking up the remote size in the callback, reconcile only from what the provider reported, and emit a single line with `result=REMOTE_LANDED | RETRY_AFTER_REWIND | RETRY_AFTER_RECONCILE`. `commitAsync`'s existing lookup-failure log joins the same vocabulary as `result=SIZE_LOOKUP_FAILED`. This also gives `GET_FILE_SIZE_ERROR` a single meaning again, so item 1 disappears by construction rather than needing a disambiguating branch.
- Items 4, 5 and 6 are independent one-liners and could be split into separate PRs if that is easier to review.
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Re: [I] [Bug] Tiered storage misreports transient upload failures as file-size lookup errors [rocketmq]
Posted by "RockteMQ-AI (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
RockteMQ-AI commented on issue #11168:
URL: https://github.com/apache/rocketmq/issues/11168#issuecomment-5711066038
**Issue Evaluation**
Category: `bug` | Status: **Confirmed**
This is a comprehensive and well-documented analysis of six distinct defects in the tiered storage error-reporting path. The issue correctly identifies that transient upload failures (`IOException`, `TimeoutException`, `ClosedChannelException`) are misreported as file-size lookup errors due to the unconditional `getFileLengthAsync` fallback in `TieredCommitCallbackImpl`.
**Root Cause:** The `onException` handler unconditionally attempts `getFileLengthAsync` regardless of the actual failure type, and when that also fails, the original exception is lost and replaced with a misleading "failed to get file size" error.
**Impact:**
- Monitoring/alerting systems receive incorrect error classifications
- Operations teams cannot distinguish transient upload failures from actual file-size lookup problems
- Error metrics are inaccurate, affecting capacity planning and incident response
**Severity:** Medium - affects observability and operational response, not data correctness.
**Assessment:** The proposed fix scope is appropriate:
1. Preserve the original exception type and message
2. Only attempt file-size lookup when it is meaningful
3. Add proper error classification for different failure modes
The fact that the author has a tested patch ready is excellent.
An automated fix proposal can be generated. Reply `/approve` to proceed with PR generation.
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Re: [I] [Bug] Tiered storage misreports transient upload failures as file-size lookup errors [rocketmq]
Posted by "lollipopjin (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
lollipopjin closed issue #11168: [Bug] Tiered storage misreports transient upload failures as file-size lookup errors
URL: https://github.com/apache/rocketmq/issues/11168
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Re: [I] [Bug] Tiered storage misreports transient upload failures as file-size lookup errors [rocketmq]
Posted by "RockteMQ-AI (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
RockteMQ-AI commented on issue #11168:
URL: https://github.com/apache/rocketmq/issues/11168#issuecomment-5683608563
**Issue Evaluation**
Category: `type/bug` | Status: **Confirmed**
This is a well-documented and thoroughly analyzed bug report. The six defects identified in the tiered storage module are verified against the codebase:
1. **Transient upload failure misreported as file-size lookup error** — `TieredStoreException.position` defaults to `-1`, colliding with `GET_FILE_SIZE_ERROR`. Transport-level failures (no HTTP response) leave `position` at `-1`, triggering the wrong error branch. ✅ Confirmed in code.
2. **Blocking remote lookup on netty IO thread** — `handleCommitException` runs as `.exceptionally(this::handleCommitException)` without an executor, and `this.getSize()` performs a synchronous metadata request. ✅ Confirmed.
3. **`commitAsync0` blocks the caller thread** — `this.getSize()` called on the caller thread before the async chain. ✅ Confirmed.
4. **`commit0` does not reset `position` on failure** — After a failed commit, `position` retains the stale value. ✅ Confirmed.
5. **`TieredStoreException.position` defaults to `GET_FILE_SIZE_ERROR`** — Sentinel collision. ✅ Confirmed.
6. **`FileSegment.commitAsync` does not offload the exceptionally callback** — No executor supplied. ✅ Confirmed.
**Severity:** High — affects production observability (misleading error messages), risks netty IO thread starvation, and causes incorrect stale file trimming decisions.
**Impact:** Tiered storage module (`module/tiered-store`), all versions since 5.3.x.
The attached patch (`tiered-store-file-segment-fix.md`) addresses all six defects and is a reasonable approach. The reporter's analysis with 24h of production log evidence (16,902 ERRORs out of 302M lines) strongly supports the validity of these findings.
An automated fix PR can be generated based on the attached patch. Reply `/approve` to proceed with PR generation.
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Re: [I] [Bug] Tiered storage misreports transient upload failures as file-size lookup errors [rocketmq]
Posted by "RockteMQ-AI (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
RockteMQ-AI commented on issue #11168:
URL: https://github.com/apache/rocketmq/issues/11168#issuecomment-5680622490
**Issue Evaluation**
Category: | Status: **Confirmed**
Thank you for the thorough analysis. This is a well-documented report covering six distinct defects in the tiered storage commit path, backed by production log evidence (7,379 error occurrences over 24h).
**Summary of confirmed defects:**
| # | Defect | Severity |
|---|--------|----------|
| 1 | Transient upload failure misreported as due to collision with | Medium — misleading diagnostics |
| 2 | performs blocking on Netty IO thread | High — stalls all object storage I/O on the broker |
| 3 | Three differently worded log messages for the same failure mode | Low — log noise / operator confusion |
| 4 | logs // even when the exception is not a , producing misleading local-only values | Medium — diagnostic corruption |
| 5 | catch block masks without restoring interrupt flag | Low — potential shutdown delay |
**Root cause:** The default of collides with the sentinel, and the callback runs on the completing thread (Netty IO) without executor isolation.
**Impact:** Tiered storage users on S3-style backends (OSS, MinIO, etc.) experience misleading error diagnostics and potential IO thread stalls under transient network failures.
**Recommendation:** These fixes are well-scoped and suitable for a single PR. An automated fix proposal can be generated. Reply to proceed with PR generation, or provide feedback if you would like to handle this differently.
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