becketqin opened a new pull request #14557:
URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/14557


   ## What is the purpose of the change
   This patch is a band-aid patch that prevent NPE thrown from SourceOperator 
after it is closed. 
   
   The root cause of the NPE is in the out of order mailbox task shutdown 
sequence which may result in method invocation on `SourceOperator` after it is 
closed. A proper fix would be fix the the mailbox shutdown sequence.
   
   ## Brief change log
   - Avoid NPE after SourceOperator is closed.
   
   ## Verifying this change
   Ran `UnalignedCheckpointITCase` for over 1500 times in IDE without failure.
   
   ## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts:
   
     - Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): (**no**)
     - The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with 
`@Public(Evolving)`: (**no**)
     - The serializers: (**no**)
     - The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): (**no**)
     - Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its 
components), Checkpointing, Kubernetes/Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: (**no**)
     - The S3 file system connector: (**no**)
   
   ## Documentation
   
     - Does this pull request introduce a new feature? (no)
     - If yes, how is the feature documented? (not applicable)
   


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