[HADOOP-9183] Potential deadlock in ActiveStandbyElector

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.3-alpha
• Component/s: ha
• Target Version/s: 2.0.3-alpha
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Thomas White
• Reporter: Thomas White
• Created: 07/Jan/13 16:53
• Updated: 15/Feb/13 13:11
• Resolved: 10/Jan/13 10:09

Description

A jcarder run found a potential deadlock in the locking of ActiveStandbyElector and ActiveStandbyElector.WatcherWithClientRef. No deadlock has been seen in practice, this is just a theoretical possibility at the moment.