Mark Christiaens created HBASE-16737: ----------------------------------------
Summary: NPE during close of RegionScanner Key: HBASE-16737 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16737 Project: HBase Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 1.0.0 Reporter: Mark Christiaens We encountered the following stack trace during high load: {noformat} Unexpected throwable object java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.CellComparator.compareRows(CellComparator.java:186) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.CellComparator.compare(CellComparator.java:63) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.KeyValue$KVComparator.compare(KeyValue.java:2021) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.KeyValueHeap$KVScannerComparator.compare(KeyValueHeap.java:202) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.KeyValueHeap$KVScannerComparator.compare(KeyValueHeap.java:178) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.KeyValueHeap$KVScannerComparator.compare(KeyValueHeap.java:168) at java.util.PriorityQueue.siftDownUsingComparator(PriorityQueue.java:719) at java.util.PriorityQueue.siftDown(PriorityQueue.java:687) at java.util.PriorityQueue.poll(PriorityQueue.java:595) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.KeyValueHeap.close(KeyValueHeap.java:218) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion$RegionScannerImpl.close(HRegion.java:5608) at org.apache.phoenix.coprocessor.BaseScannerRegionObserver$2.close(BaseScannerRegionObserver.java:279) at org.apache.phoenix.coprocessor.BaseScannerRegionObserver$1.close(BaseScannerRegionObserver.java:186) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.RSRpcServices.scan(RSRpcServices.java:2378) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.protobuf.generated.ClientProtos$ClientService$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientProtos.java:32205) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcServer.call(RpcServer.java:2034) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.CallRunner.run(CallRunner.java:107) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcExecutor.consumerLoop(RpcExecutor.java:130) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcExecutor$1.run(RpcExecutor.java:107) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) {noformat} What I suspect is happening is that the {{RegionScannerImpl}} is being closed while the scanner's lease is expired. During this close, the underlying {{KeyValueHeap}} is being polled. the {{heap}} tries to read data from {{KeyValueScanners}} that then return {{null}} which causes the crash. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)