[jira] [Assigned] (HADOOP-7550) Need for Integrity Validation of RPC

["Dave Thompson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7550?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Dave Thompson reassigned HADOOP-7550:
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    Assignee: Dave Thompson

> Need for Integrity Validation of RPC
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>                 Key: HADOOP-7550
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7550
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ipc
>            Reporter: Dave Thompson
>            Assignee: Dave Thompson
>
> Some recent investigation of network packet corruption has shown a need for hadoop RPC integrity validation beyond assurances already provided by 802.3 link layer and TCP 16-bit CRC.
> During an unusual occurrence on a 4k node cluster, we've seen as high as 4 TCP anomalies per second on a single node, sustained over an hour (14k per hour).   A TCP anomaly  would be an escaped link layer packet that resulted in a TCP CRC failure, TCP packet out of sequence
> or TCP packet size error.
> According to this paper[*]:  http://tinyurl.com/3aue72r
> TCP's 16-bit CRC has an effective detection rate of 2^10.   1 in 1024 errors may escape detection, and in fact what originally alerted us to this issue was seeing failures due to bit-errors in hadoop traffic.  Extrapolating from that paper, one might expect 14 escaped packet errors per hour for that single node of a 4k cluster.  While the above error rate
> was unusually high due to a broadband aggregate switch issue, hadoop not having an integrity check on RPC makes it problematic to discover, and limit any potential data damage due to
> acting on a corrupt RPC message.
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> [*] In case this jira outlives that tinyurl, the IEEE paper cited is:  "Performance of Checksums and CRCs over Real Data" by Jonathan Stone, Michael Greenwald, Craig Partridge, Jim Hughes.

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