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Subroto Sanyal commented on MAPREDUCE-3516: ------------------------------------------- The patch is for Hadoop 1.1.0. The patch makes _null_ checks for key and value and further it removes few unused imports. > Possible NPE in org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.MapOutputBuffer.collect(K > key, V value, int partition) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-3516 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3516 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Components: mrv2 > Affects Versions: 0.20.1, 0.20.2, 0.20.203.0, 0.20.205.0, 0.23.0 > Reporter: Subroto Sanyal > Assignee: Subroto Sanyal > Attachments: MAPREDUCE-3516.patch > > > *org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.MapOutputBuffer.collect* accepts a pair of > Key and Value. There is chance that if somehow if a Null value or Key is > passed to the method, we can end up having NPE. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira