[HIVE-7598] Potential null pointer dereference in MergeTask#closeJob()

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: SUYEON LEE
• Reporter: Ted Yu
• Created: 04/Aug/14 01:39
• Updated: 04/Apr/16 22:51

Description

Call to Utilities.mvFileToFinalPath() passes null as second last parameter, conf.
null gets passed to createEmptyBuckets() which dereferences conf directly:

    boolean isCompressed = conf.getCompressed();
    TableDesc tableInfo = conf.getTableInfo();

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-7754 Potential null pointer dereference in ColumnTruncateMapper#jobClose()