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Andrew Wang commented on HDFS-4626:
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Great, was unaware of the JIRA-fu.
I believe the test failures are unrelated, considering that we had a clean test
run before, and that those tests are known to be flaky. Thanks again for the
reviews.
> Fix NullPointerException in getLinkTarget
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>
> Key: HDFS-4626
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4626
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: namenode
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Andrew Wang
> Assignee: Andrew Wang
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: hadoop-9415-1.patch, hadoop-9415-2.patch,
> hadoop-9415-3.patch
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> {{HdfsFileStatus#getLinkTarget}} can throw a NPE in {{DFSUtil#bytes2String}}
> if {{symlink}} is null. Better to instead return null and propagate this to
> the client.
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