David Li created ARROW-13253:
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             Summary: [C++][FlightRPC] Segfault when sending record batch >2GB
                 Key: ARROW-13253
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13253
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: C++, FlightRPC
    Affects Versions: 4.0.1
            Reporter: David Li
            Assignee: David Li
             Fix For: 5.0.0


When sending a record batch > 2GiB, the server will segfault. Although Flight 
checks for this case and returns an error, it turns out that gRPC always tries 
to increment the refcount of the result buffer whether the serialization 
handler returned successfully or not:
{code:cpp}
// From gRPC 1.36
Status CallOpSendMessage::SendMessagePtr(const M* message,
                                         WriteOptions options) {
  msg_ = message;
  write_options_ = options;
  // Store the serializer for later since we have access to the message
  serializer_ = [this](const void* message) {
    bool own_buf;
    // TODO(vjpai): Remove the void below when possible
    // The void in the template parameter below should not be needed
    // (since it should be implicit) but is needed due to an observed
    // difference in behavior between clang and gcc for certain internal users
    Status result = SerializationTraits<M, void>::Serialize(
        *static_cast<const M*>(message), send_buf_.bbuf_ptr(), &own_buf);
    if (!own_buf) {
      send_buf_.Duplicate();
    }
    return result;
  };
  return Status();
}
{code}
Hence when Flight returns an error without initializing the buffer, we get a 
segfault.

Originally reported on StackOverflow: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68230146/pyarrow-flight-do-get-segfault-when-pandas-dataframe-over-3gb



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