[CASSANDRA-16969] Scrub does not detect invalid partition keys

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.12, 4.0.2, 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: Tool/sstable
• Bug Category: Degradation
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Since Version: NA

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/ec1195bed76b17a150371810c78413e6cb9c7049

Test and Documentation Plan

Run CI

• Assignee: Brandon Williams
• Reporter: Brandon Williams

Authors

Brandon Williams

Reviewers

Benjamin Lerer, Berenguer Blasi

• Created: 17/Sep/21 20:35
• Updated: 20/Feb/24 19:52
• Resolved: 27/Sep/21 14:14

Description

The standalone scrubber gets the key from the file but never validates it, and this will propagate to the new sstable so it will be corrupted when read later.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-16991 python dest Failure: scrub_test.py::TestScrubIndexes::test_scrub_collections_table