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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HDFS-2541:
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Eeek. It seems like setting period = 0xffffffffL will result in a very short
period being set, contrary to the intended effect.
> For a sufficiently large value of blocks, the DN Scanner may request a random
> number with a negative seed value.
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>
> Key: HDFS-2541
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2541
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: data-node
> Affects Versions: 0.20.1
> Reporter: Harsh J
> Assignee: Harsh J
> Fix For: 0.23.1, 1.1.0
>
> Attachments: BSBugTest.java, HDFS-2541.patch
>
>
> Running off 0.20-security, I noticed that one could get the following
> exception when scanners are used:
> {code}
> DataXceiver
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive
> at java.util.Random.nextInt(Random.java:250)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataBlockScanner.getNewBlockScanTime(DataBlockScanner.java:251)
>
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataBlockScanner.addBlock(DataBlockScanner.java:268)
>
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataXceiver.writeBlock(DataXceiver.java:432)
>
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataXceiver.run(DataXceiver.java:122)
> {code}
> This is cause the period, determined in the DataBlockScanner (0.20+) or
> BlockPoolSliceScanner (0.23+), is cast to an integer before its sent to a
> Random.nextInt(...) call. For sufficiently large values of the long 'period',
> the casted integer may be negative. This is not accounted for. I'll attach a
> sample test that shows this possibility with the numbers.
> We should ensure we do a Math.abs(...) before we send it to the
> Random.nextInt(...) call to avoid this.
> With this bug, the maximum # of blocks a scanner may hold in its blocksMap
> without opening up the chance for beginning this exception (intermittent, as
> blocks continue to grow) would be 3582718.
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