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Emmanuel Lecharny updated DIRMINA-845:
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    Description: 
ProtocolEncoderOutputImpl uses ConcurrentLinkedQueue and at first look it seems 
to be thread-safe. But really concurrent execution of flush method isn't 
thread-safe (and write-mergeAll also).

E.g. in RTMP several channels multiplexed in single connection. According 
protocol specification it's possible to write to different channels 
concurrently. But it doesn't work with MINA.
I've synchronized channel writing, but it doesn't prevent concurrent run of 
flushing (in 2.0.4 it's done directly in ProtocolCodecFilter.filterWrite, but 
ProtocolEncoderOutputImpl.flush has the same problem).

Here the fragment of flushing code:
{code}
while (!bufferQueue.isEmpty()) {
  Object encodedMessage = bufferQueue.poll();
                
  if (encodedMessage == null) {
    break;
  }

  // Flush only when the buffer has remaining.
  if (!(encodedMessage instanceof IoBuffer) || ((IoBuffer) 
encodedMessage).hasRemaining()) {
    SocketAddress destination = writeRequest.getDestination();
    WriteRequest encodedWriteRequest = new EncodedWriteRequest(encodedMessage, 
null, destination); 

    nextFilter.filterWrite(session, encodedWriteRequest);
  }
} 
{code}
Suppose original packets sequence is A, B, ...
Concurrent run of flushing may proceed as following:

thread-1: Object encodedMessage = bufferQueue.poll(); // gets A packet
thread-2: Object encodedMessage = bufferQueue.poll(); // gets B packet
...
thread-2: nextFilter.filterWrite(...); // writes B packet
thread-1: nextFilter.filterWrite(...); // writes A packet

so, resulting sequence will B, A

It's quite confusing result especially when documentation doesn't contain any 
explanation about such behavior.

  was:
ProtocolEncoderOutputImpl uses ConcurrentLinkedQueue and at first look it seems 
to be thread-safe. But really concurrent execution of flush method isn't 
thread-safe (and write-mergeAll also).

E.g. in RTMP several channels multiplexed in single connection. According 
protocol specification it's possible to write to different channels 
concurrently. But it doesn't work with MINA.
I've synchronized channel writing, but it doesn't prevent concurrent run of 
flushing (in 2.0.4 it's done directly in ProtocolCodecFilter.filterWrite, but 
ProtocolEncoderOutputImpl.flush has the same problem).

Here the fragment of flushing code:

while (!bufferQueue.isEmpty()) {
  Object encodedMessage = bufferQueue.poll();
                
  if (encodedMessage == null) {
    break;
  }

  // Flush only when the buffer has remaining.
  if (!(encodedMessage instanceof IoBuffer) || ((IoBuffer) 
encodedMessage).hasRemaining()) {
    SocketAddress destination = writeRequest.getDestination();
    WriteRequest encodedWriteRequest = new EncodedWriteRequest(encodedMessage, 
null, destination); 

    nextFilter.filterWrite(session, encodedWriteRequest);
  }
} 

Suppose original packets sequence is A, B, ...
Concurrent run of flushing may proceed as following:

thread-1: Object encodedMessage = bufferQueue.poll(); // gets A packet
thread-2: Object encodedMessage = bufferQueue.poll(); // gets B packet
...
thread-2: nextFilter.filterWrite(...); // writes B packet
thread-1: nextFilter.filterWrite(...); // writes A packet

so, resulting sequence will B, A

It's quite confusing result especially when documentation doesn't contain any 
explanation about such behavior.


> ProtocolEncoderOutputImpl isn't thread-safe
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DIRMINA-845
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRMINA-845
>             Project: MINA
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Filter
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.4
>            Reporter: Ilya Ivanov
>             Fix For: 2.0.8
>
>
> ProtocolEncoderOutputImpl uses ConcurrentLinkedQueue and at first look it 
> seems to be thread-safe. But really concurrent execution of flush method 
> isn't thread-safe (and write-mergeAll also).
> E.g. in RTMP several channels multiplexed in single connection. According 
> protocol specification it's possible to write to different channels 
> concurrently. But it doesn't work with MINA.
> I've synchronized channel writing, but it doesn't prevent concurrent run of 
> flushing (in 2.0.4 it's done directly in ProtocolCodecFilter.filterWrite, but 
> ProtocolEncoderOutputImpl.flush has the same problem).
> Here the fragment of flushing code:
> {code}
> while (!bufferQueue.isEmpty()) {
>   Object encodedMessage = bufferQueue.poll();
>                 
>   if (encodedMessage == null) {
>     break;
>   }
>   // Flush only when the buffer has remaining.
>   if (!(encodedMessage instanceof IoBuffer) || ((IoBuffer) 
> encodedMessage).hasRemaining()) {
>     SocketAddress destination = writeRequest.getDestination();
>     WriteRequest encodedWriteRequest = new 
> EncodedWriteRequest(encodedMessage, null, destination); 
>     nextFilter.filterWrite(session, encodedWriteRequest);
>   }
> } 
> {code}
> Suppose original packets sequence is A, B, ...
> Concurrent run of flushing may proceed as following:
> thread-1: Object encodedMessage = bufferQueue.poll(); // gets A packet
> thread-2: Object encodedMessage = bufferQueue.poll(); // gets B packet
> ...
> thread-2: nextFilter.filterWrite(...); // writes B packet
> thread-1: nextFilter.filterWrite(...); // writes A packet
> so, resulting sequence will B, A
> It's quite confusing result especially when documentation doesn't contain any 
> explanation about such behavior.



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