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[jira] [Commented] (HDFS-17590) `NullPointerException` triggered in `createBlockReader` during retry iteration
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ASF GitHub Bot commented on HDFS-17590:
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balodesecurity opened a new pull request, #8328:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/8328
## Summary
`DFSStripedInputStream.createBlockReader()` initialises `dnInfo` to a sentinel `DNAddrPair(null, null, null, null)` before entering the retry loop. If `refreshLocatedBlock()` throws an `IOException` (e.g. the block's start offset is out of range after a file truncation or stale cache) _before_ `getBestNodeDNAddrPair()` is called, the catch block tries:
```java
addToLocalDeadNodes(dnInfo.info); // dnInfo.info is still null
```
`addToLocalDeadNodes` calls `deadNodes.put(null, null)`, and `ConcurrentHashMap` does not permit null keys, so a `NullPointerException` is thrown — masking the original `IOException`.
**Fix:** add a null guard at the top of `DFSInputStream.addToLocalDeadNodes()`:
```java
protected void addToLocalDeadNodes(DatanodeInfo dnInfo) {
if (dnInfo == null) {
return;
}
...
}
```
This is the safest fix location because it protects all callers, not just the one in `createBlockReader`.
## Test plan
- [x] New test `TestDFSStripedInputStream#testAddNullToLocalDeadNodesIsIgnored` creates a striped file, opens a `DFSStripedInputStream`, calls `addToLocalDeadNodes(null)`, and asserts: no exception thrown and dead-nodes map remains empty.
- [x] Test passes with MiniDFSCluster (EC RS-6-3 policy).
> `NullPointerException` triggered in `createBlockReader` during retry iteration
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HDFS-17590
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-17590
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.4.0
> Reporter: Elmer J Fudd
> Priority: Critical
>
> While reading blocks of data using `DFSInputStream` in `createBlockReader`, a `IOException` originating from `getBlockAt()` that triggers a retry iteration results in a `NullPointerException` when passing `dnInfo` to `addToLocalDeadNodes` in the catch block.
> This is the relevant callstack portion from our logs (from 3.4.0, but we still experience this with versions going into 3.4.1 as recently as late June):
> {noformat}
> ...
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.putVal(ConcurrentHashMap.java:1011)
> at java.base/ java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.put(ConcurrentHashMap.java:1006)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSInputStream.addToLocalDeadNodes(DFSInputStream.java:184)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSStripedInputStream.createBlockReader(DFSStripedInputStream.java:279)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.StripeReader.readChunk(StripeReader.java:304)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.StripeReader.readStripe(StripeReader.java:335)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSStripedInputStream.fetchBlockByteRange(DFSStripedInputStream.java:504)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSInputStream.pread(DFSInputStream.java:1472)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSInputStream.read(DFSInputStream.java:1436)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSInputStream.readFully(FSInputStream.java:124)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream.readFully(FSDataInputStream.java:119)
> ...{noformat}
> What we observe is that `getBlockAt()` thorws an `IOException` [here|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSInputStream.java#L478]
> {code:java}
> //check offset
> if (offset < 0 || offset >= getFileLength()) {
> throw new IOException("offset < 0 || offset >= getFileLength(), offset="
> + offset
> + ", locatedBlocks=" + locatedBlocks);
> }
> {code}
> This is eventually caught in `createBlockReader`. The catch block attempts to handle the error and, as part of the error handling, invokes the `addToLocalDeadNodes` method. The `dnInfo` object passed to this method is actually `NULL` as it wasn't fully allocated ([here)|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/4525c7e35ea22d7a6350b8af10eb8d2ff68376e7/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSStripedInputStream.java#L247], which results in a `NullPointerException`.
> To sum up, this is the failure path according to the logs:
> # `IOException` is thrown in `getBlockAt` ([code|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSInputStream.java#L479])
> # The exception propagates to `getBlockGroupAt` ([code|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/4525c7e35ea22d7a6350b8af10eb8d2ff68376e7/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSStripedInputStream.java#L476])
> # It further propagates to `refreshLocatedBlock` ([code)|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/4525c7e35ea22d7a6350b8af10eb8d2ff68376e7/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSStripedInputStream.java#L459]
> # `IOException` caught in `createBlockReader` ([code|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/4525c7e35ea22d7a6350b8af10eb8d2ff68376e7/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSStripedInputStream.java#L247])
> # Error handling in the catch block of `createBlockReader` invokes `addToLocalDeadNodes` ([code|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/4525c7e35ea22d7a6350b8af10eb8d2ff68376e7/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSStripedInputStream.java#L281])
> # Execution throws `NullPointerException` since `dnInfo` is NULL
> A simple fix as a `NULL` check before calling `addToLocalDeadNodes`, and similarly adjusting the log messages in the `catch` block where `dnInfo` is dereferenced, should solve the issue.
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