[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-9839) IllegalStateException on metadata update when broker learns about its new epoch after the controller

["Anna Povzner (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Anna Povzner created KAFKA-9839:
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             Summary: IllegalStateException on metadata update when broker learns about its new epoch after the controller
                 Key: KAFKA-9839
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9839
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: controller, core
    Affects Versions: 2.3.1
            Reporter: Anna Povzner


Broker throws "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Epoch XXX larger than current broker epoch YYY"  on UPDATE_METADATA when the controller learns about the broker epoch and sends UPDATE_METADATA before KafkaZkCLient.registerBroker completes (the broker learns about its new epoch).

Here is the scenario we observed in more detail:
1. ZK session expires on broker 1
2. Broker 1 establishes new session to ZK and creates znode
3. Controller learns about broker 1 and assigns epoch
4. Broker 1 receives UPDATE_METADATA from controller, but it does not know about its new epoch yet, so we get an exception:

ERROR [KafkaApi-3] Error when handling request: clientId=1, correlationId=0, api=UPDATE_METADATA, body={
.........
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Epoch XXX larger than current broker epoch YYY at kafka.server.KafkaApis.isBrokerEpochStale(KafkaApis.scala:2725) at kafka.server.KafkaApis.handleUpdateMetadataRequest(KafkaApis.scala:320) at kafka.server.KafkaApis.handle(KafkaApis.scala:139) at kafka.server.KafkaRequestHandler.run(KafkaRequestHandler.scala:69) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

5. KafkaZkCLient.registerBroker completes on broker 1: "INFO Stat of the created znode at /brokers/ids/1"

The result is the broker has a stale metadata for some time.

Possible solutions:
1. Broker returns a more specific error and controller retries UPDATE_MEDATA
2. Broker accepts UPDATE_METADATA with larger broker epoch.



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