[HADOOP-6724] IPC doesn't properly handle IOEs thrown by socket factory

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.3, 0.21.0, 0.22.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.3, 0.21.0, 0.22.0
• Component/s: ipc
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 26/Apr/10 02:17
• Updated: 12/Dec/11 06:19
• Resolved: 26/Oct/10 17:31

Description

If the socket factory throws an IOE inside setupIOStreams, then handleConnectionFailure will be called with socket still null, and thus generate an NPE on socket.close(). This ends up orphaning clients, etc.