hey Viswa,
I haven't had a chance to look at it in any detail yet, but
superficially it sounds like it has some similarities to this PR?

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CURATOR-620

cheers
Cam


On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 10:48 PM Viswanathan Rajagopal
<viswanathan.rajag...@workday.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hello Team,
>
> Greetings!
> Any update on the below mentioned observation?
>
> Many Thanks,
> Viswa
>
> From: Viswanathan Rajagopal <viswanathan.rajag...@workday.com.INVALID>
> Date: Wednesday, 27 October 2021 at 16:15
> To: dev@curator.apache.org <dev@curator.apache.org>,
> u...@curator.apache.org <u...@curator.apache.org>
> Subject: [External Sender] Double Leadership Issue
> Hello Team,
>
> Greetings!
> While using Curator Leader Latch Recipe in our application,  we observed a
> potential issue where two clients have become a leader. Raised a Jira on
> the same for your reference (Jira Link :
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__issues.apache.org_jira_browse_CURATOR-2D620&d=DwIF-g&c=DS6PUFBBr_KiLo7Sjt3ljp5jaW5k2i9ijVXllEdOozc&r=mwSLlPO0Vtstmu1dce0TMFqf5lUxD2SPdNdc1k4NXjU&m=nFB4puWyvVe8eRiZ3oi_C8Ao1WkqCb9wsonPrIl3LY8&s=3LDys_XJLYEnQ0_K3auTUo8DsOom0xZAMAC7ASgkt0A&e=
> )
> Quick summary of below description
>
>   *   Our use case explained
>   *   Issue details
>   *   Timeline of events mentioned
>   *   Attached test code to reproduce the reported issue
>   *   Possible solution given, where we need your suggestions
> Our use case:
>
>   *   Two clients trying to get the leadership using Curator Leader Latch
> Recipe. On LeaderLatchListener.isLeader() Client would become a leader and
> on LeaderLatchListener.notLeader() Client would lose its leadership
> Issue details:
>
>   *   One of the clients on receiving two CuratorConnectionListener
> RECONNECTED events in quick succession, we observed that LeaderLatch
> EventThreads interleave with each other, resulting in "latch node deletion"
> happen after "client becoming a leader", thereby the client will still be a
> leader though its corresponding latch node has been deleted
>   *   And the other client who tried to get leadership creates its latch
> node and sees itself in first index and thus become a leader
>   *   So at this point, two clients have become a leader
>
> Timeline of events:
>
>   *   Timeline events of Client A whose corresponding latch node is
> deleted but still be a leader
>      *   At t1, 1st RECONNECTED event fired
>      *   At t2, [ EventThread of 1st RECONNECTED event ] Resets leadership
> (true -> false)
>      *   At t3, [ EventThread of 1st RECONNECTED event ] Fire
> “listener.notLeader()”
>      *   At t4, [ EventThread of 1st RECONNECTED event ] Deletes latch node
>      *   At t5, [ EventThread of 1st RECONNECTED event ] Creates new latch
> node
>      *   At t6, 2nd RECONNECTED event fired
>      *   At t7, [ EventThread of 2nd RECONNECTED event ] Resets leadership
> (false -> false), Basically NOP
>      *   At t8, [ EventThread of 2nd RECONNECTED event ] Fire nothing.
> Basically NOP
>      *   At t9, [ EventThread of 1st RECONNECTED event ] Get children ->
> sort them -> check leadership -> Set leadership to true -> Fire “Has become
> a leader” leader listener event
>      *   At t10, [ EventThread of 2nd RECONNECTED event ] Delete latch
> node (which actually deletes the latch node with which the Client A has
> become a leader through previous step)
>
>   *   Timeline events of Client B who also become a leader
>      *   At t11, Client B creates its latch node -> Get children -> sort
> them -> check leadership -> Set leadership to true -> Fire “Has become a
> leader” leader listener event
>
> This ends up in a situation where both Client A and Client B have become a
> leader
>
> As we observe, over the period (t8 -> t10), Client A’s LeaderLatch
> EventThreads interleave with each other causing leadership latch node
> deleted but local state still assumes that it’s a leader
>
> Reproducing the issue:
>
>   *   Wrote a Junit test case firing an artificial curator connection
> reconnected events and simulated LeaderLatch EventThreads interleave
> through CountDownLatches
>   *   Test simulator for 2.5.0:
>      *
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_ViswaNXplore_curator_commit_6a78a3a0de032212175d80caa64f140c743219ae&d=DwIF-g&c=DS6PUFBBr_KiLo7Sjt3ljp5jaW5k2i9ijVXllEdOozc&r=mwSLlPO0Vtstmu1dce0TMFqf5lUxD2SPdNdc1k4NXjU&m=nFB4puWyvVe8eRiZ3oi_C8Ao1WkqCb9wsonPrIl3LY8&s=tveG7d6kAd8SeywmuCN7zyd1ufTvARJdEEc0gxTs2rU&e=
>      *
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_ViswaNXplore_curator_commit_d2b1b33a6885c05619c058aa2bee63962fd6fa08&d=DwIF-g&c=DS6PUFBBr_KiLo7Sjt3ljp5jaW5k2i9ijVXllEdOozc&r=mwSLlPO0Vtstmu1dce0TMFqf5lUxD2SPdNdc1k4NXjU&m=nFB4puWyvVe8eRiZ3oi_C8Ao1WkqCb9wsonPrIl3LY8&s=jixCmfLZiaseXsSWihiUiYMw8cj5cDg1O6gLFJY3kKg&e=
>   *   Test Simulator for latest Curator version:
>      *
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_ViswaNXplore_curator_commit_0949137f7323a1d5f34afc85a7042e8d9e85a8bc&d=DwIF-g&c=DS6PUFBBr_KiLo7Sjt3ljp5jaW5k2i9ijVXllEdOozc&r=mwSLlPO0Vtstmu1dce0TMFqf5lUxD2SPdNdc1k4NXjU&m=nFB4puWyvVe8eRiZ3oi_C8Ao1WkqCb9wsonPrIl3LY8&s=bzLny0aqbqUHmvLwkWyLdIySm65swqv2rAT1Kn0MKJ0&e=
>      *
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_ViswaNXplore_curator_commit_1aadd4b5dbc8811a2e7a49b92f29170333e8ba4a&d=DwIF-g&c=DS6PUFBBr_KiLo7Sjt3ljp5jaW5k2i9ijVXllEdOozc&r=mwSLlPO0Vtstmu1dce0TMFqf5lUxD2SPdNdc1k4NXjU&m=nFB4puWyvVe8eRiZ3oi_C8Ao1WkqCb9wsonPrIl3LY8&s=GTlqqRRRB_P5y_f1tRSRxv1HZvVjhwFHtlogEk47LAU&e=
>
> Possible Solution (where we would like to hear your thoughts/suggestions):
>
>   *   The current curator code during reset() does
>      *   setLeadership(false) first followed by
>      *   setNode(null) (i.e. deleting its latch node)
>
>   *   Swapping these two should resolve the issue, as we setting
> leadership to false once after its latch node gets deleted
>      *   setNode(null) (i.e. deleting its latch node) first followed by
>      *   setLeadership(false)
>
> Many Thanks,
> Viswa
>

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