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Benoy Antony updated HADOOP-10852:
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Affects Version/s: 2.5.0
Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> 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, 2.5.0
> 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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