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Ryan Blue resolved AVRO-1773.
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Resolution: Fixed
The patch for AVRO-1781 was just committed so I'm closing this.
> Infinite loop caused by race condition
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> Key: AVRO-1773
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1773
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.7.7
> Reporter: vincent ye
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 1.7.8, 1.8.0
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> org.apache.avro.LogicalTypes#fromSchemaIgnoreInvalid lookups and update
> CACHE. CACHE is backed by hashmap without synchronization. In a multithreaded
> environment, it causes a infinite loop in hashmap lookup. The race condition
> problem is described in the following blog
> http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2009/06/beautiful-race-condition.html.
> I experience this infinite loop in Spark jobs with high concurrency.
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