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Sergey Shelukhin updated HBASE-7237:
Description:
shell currently validates whatever metadata user provides as argument to alter,
however while looking at some other issue I noticed that user and system
metadata is stored in the same dictionary in the descriptor, so shell
validation is easy to bypass by setting a "user" metadata parameter with the
same name as the system parameter.
E.g. I just set MAX_FILESIZE to "moo" via CONFIG.
This can be fixed in the shell, however the general problem I think is that
system configuration should be validated server-side (e.g. on the master), not
just on the client.
was:
shell currently validates what used provides with alter, however while looking
at some other issue I noticed that user and system metadata is stored in the
same dictionary on the server, so it is easy to bypass by setting a "user"
metadata parameter with the same name as the system parameter.
E.g. I just set MAX_FILESIZE to "moo" via CONFIG.
This can be fixed in the shell, however the general problem I think is that
system configuration should be validated server-side (e.g. on the master), not
just on the client.
> system metadata for tables/cfs needs to be validated on the master
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> Key: HBASE-7237
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7237
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
>Affects Versions: 0.96.0
>Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
>Priority: Minor
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> shell currently validates whatever metadata user provides as argument to
> alter, however while looking at some other issue I noticed that user and
> system metadata is stored in the same dictionary in the descriptor, so shell
> validation is easy to bypass by setting a "user" metadata parameter with the
> same name as the system parameter.
> E.g. I just set MAX_FILESIZE to "moo" via CONFIG.
> This can be fixed in the shell, however the general problem I think is that
> system configuration should be validated server-side (e.g. on the master),
> not just on the client.
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