[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1392?page=all ]
Mike Matrigali updated DERBY-1392:
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Version: 10.2.0.0
I reviewed this patch, ran full derbyall, and committed it to the trunk with
following svn:
m1_142:129>svn commit
Sending
java\engine\org\apache\derby\impl\store\raw\data\RAFContainer.java
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 414647.
> Corner case behaviour in RAFContainer#writePage() can cause invalid data to
> be written to data files
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>
> Key: DERBY-1392
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1392
> Project: Derby
> Type: Bug
> Components: Store
> Versions: 10.2.0.0, 10.1.2.0
> Environment: Platforms that throw an IOException when writing beyond the
> EOF, but permit the write to proceed if the file is padded, then written.
> Reporter: Anders Morken
> Assignee: Anders Morken
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 10.2.0.0
> Attachments: DERBY-1392-1.patch
>
> java/engine/org/apache/derby/impl/store/raw/data/RAFContainer.java#writePage(...)
> will
> attempt to retry a write if an IOException is thrown on the first attempt.
> However, the next
> attempt does not add container header data to the first page, nor does it
> encrypt the data
> if the database is encrypted.
> I'd expect this bug to be case silent corruption of encrypted databases if
> the code path
> was actually exercised. The fact that this bug still lives and nobody has
> discovered it is
> possibly an indication of how uncommon this code path is. Since the comment
> in the code
> says nothing about exactly what platforms the workaround was intended for, I
> don't know if
> these platforms are still supported for Derby. There's also a workaround for
> an EPOC Java
> bug earlier in the code - EPOC only had a Java 1.1 VM, which is no longer
> supported.
> I'll attach a patch for the issue, but I wonder if we might as well remove
> the "retry code path"
> if it is never used?
> (If you're paranoid, this could also be considered a security issue. If
> someone could
> cause IO errors for Derby at will, they could make Derby write the database
> without
> encryption - but there are far easier ways to attack Derby if you've got that
> kind of
> access, so I'm discounting that. =)
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