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Hairong Kuang commented on HADOOP-4271:
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> The buffer in FSInputChecker becomes invalid when readChecksumChunk is used
> to read a chunk to a user buffer directly. Currently, it's not marked as
> invalid in this case and may be read subsequently.
I do not understand why this is a bug. Only when the buffer does not have any
available byte, data are read to the user buffer directly. So there is no need
to invalidate the buffer.
> Bug in FSInputChecker makes it possible to read from an invalid buffer
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>
> Key: HADOOP-4271
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4271
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Affects Versions: 0.16.0
> Reporter: Ning Li
> Assignee: Ning Li
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.17.3, 0.18.2
>
> Attachments: .data_testFSInputChecker.crc, data_testFSInputChecker,
> hadoop-4271-branch-17.patch, hadoop-4271-branch-18.patch,
> hadoop-4271-branch-18.patch, hadoop-4271.patch, hadoop-4271.patch,
> hadoop-4271.patch, hadoop-4271.patch, HADOOP-4277-branch-18-correction.patch
>
>
> Bug in FSInputChecker makes it possible to read from an invalid buffer. The
> buffer in FSInputChecker becomes invalid when readChecksumChunk is used to
> read a chunk to a user buffer directly. Currently, it's not marked as invalid
> in this case and may be read subsequently.
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