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Sean Busbey commented on HADOOP-11969: -------------------------------------- those three tests all fail on trunk for me without this patch. > ThreadLocal initialization in several classes is not thread safe > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-11969 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11969 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: io > Reporter: Sean Busbey > Assignee: Sean Busbey > Priority: Critical > Labels: thread-safety > Attachments: HADOOP-11969.1.patch, HADOOP-11969.2.patch, > HADOOP-11969.3.patch, HADOOP-11969.4.patch > > > Right now, the initialization of hte thread local factories for encoder / > decoder in Text are not marked final. This means they end up with a static > initializer that is not guaranteed to be finished running before the members > are visible. > Under heavy contention, this means during initialization some users will get > an NPE: > {code} > (2015-05-05 08:58:03.974 : solr_server_log.log) > org.apache.solr.common.SolrException; null:java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.hadoop.io.Text.decode(Text.java:406) > at org.apache.hadoop.io.Text.decode(Text.java:389) > at org.apache.hadoop.io.Text.toString(Text.java:280) > at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.PBHelper.convert(PBHelper.java:764) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.DataTransferProtoUtil.buildBaseHeader(DataTransferProtoUtil.java:81) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.DataTransferProtoUtil.buildClientHeader(DataTransferProtoUtil.java:71) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.Sender.readBlock(Sender.java:101) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.RemoteBlockReader2.newBlockReader(RemoteBlockReader2.java:400) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.BlockReaderFactory.getRemoteBlockReader(BlockReaderFactory.java:785) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.BlockReaderFactory.getRemoteBlockReaderFromTcp(BlockReaderFactory.java:663) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.BlockReaderFactory.build(BlockReaderFactory.java:327) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSInputStream.actualGetFromOneDataNode(DFSInputStream.java:1027) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSInputStream.fetchBlockByteRange(DFSInputStream.java:974) > at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSInputStream.read(DFSInputStream.java:1305) > at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSInputStream.readFully(FSInputStream.java:78) > at > org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream.readFully(FSDataInputStream.java:107) > ... SNIP... > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)