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Alex Petrov commented on CASSANDRA-9530:
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I've been able to reproduce the corruption that would trigger OOM. It's worth
noting that SSTable itself should be large enough (otherwise we'll hit EOF
earlier than we hit OOM).
With the compressed files it's a bit different, because checksums catch pretty
much any change there. I could try modifying checksum as well, although I'm not
sure it would qualify for a realistic scenario. {{BlacklistingCompactionTest}}
is also uses no compaction though.
Do you think it'd be still useful to only test for cases without compression?
> SSTable corruption can trigger OOM
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> Key: CASSANDRA-9530
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9530
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
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> If a sstable is corrupted so that the length of a given is bogus, we'll still
> happily try to allocate a buffer of that bogus size to read the value, which
> can easily lead to an OOM.
> We should probably protect against this. In practice, a given value can be so
> big since it's limited by the protocol frame size in the first place. Maybe
> we could add a max_value_size_in_mb setting and we'd considered a sstable
> corrupted if it was containing a value bigger than that.
> I'll note that this ticket would be a good occasion to improve
> {{BlacklistingCompactionsTest}}. Typically, it currently generate empty
> values which makes it pretty much impossible to get the problem described
> here. And as described in CASSANDRA-9478, it also doesn't test properly for
> thing like early opening of compaction results. We could try to randomize as
> much of the parameters of this test as possible to make it more likely to
> catch any type of corruption that could happen.
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