symat edited a comment on issue #1300: ZOOKEEPER-3769: handling malformed 
Leader Election notification messages
URL: https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/1300#issuecomment-607794733
 
 
   well, actually I was not able to reproduce the issue even with JDK 12. I am 
not sure if it is specific to JDK 12 or not. I know that the issue was 
reproducible for Lasaro on his environment (with JDK 12 on CentOS 7) for a 
while, but now even he can not reproduce it. (Maybe some OS upgrade or network 
change fixed it for him?) So honestly I don't know what triggered this issue or 
why we haven't seen this before.
   
   But I think it is good to handle these exceptions in the code, even if I can 
not trigger them with real ZooKeeper, only by unit tests. And having more tests 
for malformed / partial messages never hurts. 
   
   Actually one can consider this as a security fix as well, since in theory 
you were able to knock out any Follower from the quorum just by sending a 
partial election vote message. (at least you were able to kill the receiver 
thread in fast leader election... so during the next leader election the server 
will be unable to connect to the new leader, until restart)

----------------------------------------------------------------
This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service.
To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the
URL above to go to the specific comment.
 
For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at:
[email protected]


With regards,
Apache Git Services

Reply via email to