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Masatake Iwasaki updated HADOOP-13091:
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    Target Version/s: 2.10.2  (was: 2.10.1)

> DistCp masks potential CRC check failures
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-13091
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13091
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.7.1
>            Reporter: Elliot West
>            Assignee: Yiqun Lin
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: distcp
>         Attachments: HADOOP-13091.003.patch, HADOOP-13091.004.patch, 
> HDFS-10338.001.patch, HDFS-10338.002.patch
>
>
> There appear to be edge cases whereby CRC checks may be circumvented when 
> requests for checksums from the source or target file system fail. In this 
> event CRCs could differ between the source and target and yet the DistCp copy 
> would succeed, even when the 'skip CRC check' option is not being used.
> The code in question is contained in the method 
> [{{org.apache.hadoop.tools.util.DistCpUtils#checksumsAreEqual(...)}}|https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/release-2.7.1/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/util/DistCpUtils.java#L457]
> Specifically this code block suggests that if there is a failure when trying 
> to read the source or target checksum then the method will return {{true}} 
> (i.e.  the checksums are equal), implying that the check succeeded. In actual 
> fact we just failed to obtain the checksum and could not perform the check.
> {code}
> try {
>   sourceChecksum = sourceChecksum != null ? sourceChecksum : 
>     sourceFS.getFileChecksum(source);
>   targetChecksum = targetFS.getFileChecksum(target);
> } catch (IOException e) {
>   LOG.error("Unable to retrieve checksum for " + source + " or "
>     + target, e);
> }
> return (sourceChecksum == null || targetChecksum == null ||
>   sourceChecksum.equals(targetChecksum));
> {code}
> I believe that at the very least the caught {{IOException}} should be 
> re-thrown. If this is not deemed desirable then I believe an option 
> ({{--strictCrc}}?) should be added to enforce a strict check where we require 
> that both the source and target CRCs are retrieved, are not null, and are 
> then compared for equality. If for any reason either of the CRCs retrievals 
> fail then an exception is thrown.
> Clearly some {{FileSystems}} do not support CRCs and invocations to 
> {{FileSystem.getFileChecksum(...)}} return {{null}} in these instances. I 
> would suggest that these should fail a strict CRC check to prevent users 
> developing a false sense of security in their copy pipeline.



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