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sankalp kohli commented on CASSANDRA-12126:
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I was able to repro it in a not so good way :) Here are the steps
1. Create a 3 node C* cluster(A,B and C)
2. Create a keyspace with RF=3 and a simple table
3. Insert System.exit PaxosState.propose method to simulate a failure in A and
B.
4. Do a CAS Write. Now with this, only C will be able to store the propose and
not A and B.
4. Now bring down machine C and remove the System.exit from A and B and bring
them up again.
5. Do a CAS Read and this will involve only A and B and will not return the
data.
6. Bring down A and bring up C.
7. Do a CAS Read and you will be able to read the data.
If we can use some test framework to simulate such failures then that will be
better.
> CAS Reads Inconsistencies
> --------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-12126
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12126
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: sankalp kohli
>
> While looking at the CAS code in Cassandra, I found a potential issue with
> CAS Reads. Here is how it can happen with RF=3
> 1) You issue a CAS Write and it fails in the propose phase. A machine replies
> true to a propose and saves the commit in accepted filed. The other two
> machines B and C does not get to the accept phase.
> Current state is that machine A has this commit in paxos table as accepted
> but not committed and B and C does not.
> 2) Issue a CAS Read and it goes to only B and C. You wont be able to read the
> value written in step 1. This step is as if nothing is inflight.
> 3) Issue another CAS Read and it goes to A and B. Now we will discover that
> there is something inflight from A and will propose and commit it with the
> current ballot. Now we can read the value written in step 1 as part of this
> CAS read.
> If we skip step 3 and instead run step 4, we will never learn about value
> written in step 1.
> 4. Issue a CAS Write and it involves only B and C. This will succeed and
> commit a different value than step 1. Step 1 value will never be seen again
> and was never seen before.
> If you read the Lamport “paxos made simple” paper and read section 2.3. It
> talks about this issue which is how learners can find out if majority of the
> acceptors have accepted the proposal.
> In step 3, it is correct that we propose the value again since we dont know
> if it was accepted by majority of acceptors. When we ask majority of
> acceptors, and more than one acceptors but not majority has something in
> flight, we have no way of knowing if it is accepted by majority of acceptors.
> So this behavior is correct.
> However we need to fix step 2, since it caused reads to not be linearizable
> with respect to writes and other reads. In this case, we know that majority
> of acceptors have no inflight commit which means we have majority that
> nothing was accepted by majority. I think we should run a propose step here
> with empty commit and that will cause write written in step 1 to not be
> visible ever after.
> With this fix, we will either see data written in step 1 on next serial read
> or will never see it which is what we want.
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