Github user KurtYoung commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2571
@mxm I think that situation will happen when RM request slot from TM, TM
accept the request, but the response was somehow missed. Typically, when an rpc
error occurred, the send could not know whether the receiver handles that
request or not.
The changes looks good to me.
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