Github user NicoK commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4593#discussion_r148209947 --- Diff: flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/core/memory/HybridMemorySegment.java --- @@ -306,6 +307,9 @@ public final void get(int offset, ByteBuffer target, int numBytes) { if ((offset | numBytes | (offset + numBytes)) < 0) { throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException(); } + if (target.isReadOnly()) { --- End diff -- you are right - the non-direct buffers path is based on `ByteBuffer#array()` which will throw a `ReadOnlyBufferException` for read-only buffers, so it really is enough in the direct buffers code path where the `UNSAFE.copyMemory` is not checking the source pointer (how should it?!)
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