[HIVE-14298] NPE could be thrown in HMS when an ExpressionTree could not be made from a filter

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.1, 2.2.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Chaoyu Tang
• Reporter: Chaoyu Tang
• Created: 20/Jul/16 20:43
• Updated: 07/Aug/19 10:15
• Resolved: 25/Jul/16 13:25

Description

In many cases where an ExpressionTree could not be made from a filter (e.g. parser fails to parse a filter etc.) and its value is null. But this null is passed around and used by a couple of HMS methods which can cause NullPointerException.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-13884 Disallow queries in HMS fetching more than a configured number of partitions