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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-6833:
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Github user tillrohrmann commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4058
  
    I would like to merge this PR if I could clarify all concerns and there are 
no further objections.


> Race condition: Asynchronous checkpointing task can fail completed StreamTask
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-6833
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6833
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Local Runtime, State Backends, Checkpointing
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.0, 1.4.0
>            Reporter: Till Rohrmann
>            Assignee: Till Rohrmann
>            Priority: Critical
>
> A {{StreamTask}} which is about to finish and thus transitioning its 
> containing {{Task}} into the {{ExecutionState.FINISHED}} state, can be failed 
> by a concurrent asynchronous checkpointing operation. The problem is that 
> upon termination the {{StreamTask}} cancels all concurrent operations 
> (amongst others ongoing asynchronous checkpoints). The cancellation of the 
> async checkpoint triggers the {{StreamTask#handleAsyncException}} call which 
> will fail the containing {{Task}}. If the {{handleAsyncException}} completes 
> before the {{StreamTask}} has been properly terminated, then the containing 
> {{Task}} will transition into {{ExecutionState.FAILED}} instead of 
> {{ExecutionState.FINISHED}}.
> In order to resolve this race condition, we should check in the 
> {{StreamTask#handleAsyncException}} whether the {{StreamTask}} is still 
> running or has already been terminated. Only in the former case, we should 
> fail the containing {{Task}}.



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