Chengbing Liu created HDFS-8113: ----------------------------------- Summary: NullPointerException in BlockInfoContiguous causes block report failure Key: HDFS-8113 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8113 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: namenode Affects Versions: 2.6.0 Reporter: Chengbing Liu Assignee: Chengbing Liu
The following copy constructor can throw NullPointerException if {{bc}} is null. {code} protected BlockInfoContiguous(BlockInfoContiguous from) { this(from, from.bc.getBlockReplication()); this.bc = from.bc; } {code} We have observed that some DataNodes keeps failing doing block reports with NameNode. The stacktrace is as follows. Though we are not using the latest version, the problem still exists. {quote} 2015-03-08 19:28:13,442 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: RemoteException in offerService org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(java.lang.NullPointerException): java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockInfo.(BlockInfo.java:80) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockManager$BlockToMarkCorrupt.(BlockManager.java:1696) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockManager.checkReplicaCorrupt(BlockManager.java:2185) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockManager.processReportedBlock(BlockManager.java:2047) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockManager.reportDiff(BlockManager.java:1950) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockManager.processReport(BlockManager.java:1823) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockManager.processReport(BlockManager.java:1750) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.blockReport(NameNodeRpcServer.java:1069) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.DatanodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.blockReport(DatanodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:152) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.DatanodeProtocolProtos$DatanodeProtocolService$2.callBlockingMethod(DatanodeProtocolProtos.java:26382) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:587) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:1026) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2013) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2009) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1623) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:2007) {quote} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)