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Benoy Antony updated HADOOP-10852:
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    Attachment: HADOOP-10852.patch

The _NetgroupCache_ is fixed by keeping state in only one _ConcurrentHashMap_ - 
{{userToNetgroupsMap}}.
{{add}} updates {{userToNetgroupsMap}} directly.

There is a slight performance loss when invoking {{isCached}} and 
{{{userToNetgroupsMap}}
But these are invoked only during {{refresh}} and adding a new group. These 
invocations should be rare compared to {{getNetgroups}} invocation.

> NetgroupCache is not thread-safe
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-10852
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10852
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: security
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.1
>            Reporter: Benoy Antony
>            Assignee: Benoy Antony
>         Attachments: HADOOP-10852.patch
>
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> _NetgroupCache_ internally uses two _ConcurrentHashMap_s and a boolean 
> variable to signal updates on one of the _ConcurrentHashMap_s 
> None of the functions are synchronized  and hence is possible to have 
> unexpected results due to race condition between different threads.
> As an example, consider the following sequence:
> Thread1 :
> {{add}} a group
> {{netgroupToUsersMap}} is updated.
> {{netgroupToUsersMapUpdated}} is set to true.
> Thread 2:
> calls {{getNetgroups}} for a user
> Due to re-ordering, {{netgroupToUsersMapUpdated=true}} is visible, but 
> updates in {{netgroupToUsersMap}} is not visible.
> Does a wrong update with older {{netgroupToUsersMap}} values. 



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