[HDFS-6232] OfflineEditsViewer throws a NPE on edits containing ACL modifications

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.1
• Component/s: tools
• Assignee: Akira Ajisaka
• Reporter: Stephen Chu
• Created: 10/Apr/14 21:19
• Updated: 12/May/16 18:18
• Resolved: 11/Apr/14 22:53

Description

The OfflineEditsViewer using the XML parser will through a NPE when using an edit with a SET_ACL op.

[root@hdfs-nfs current]# hdfs oev -i edits_0000000000000000001-0000000000000000007 -o fsedits.out
14/04/10 14:14:18 ERROR offlineEditsViewer.OfflineEditsBinaryLoader: Got RuntimeException at position 505
Encountered exception. Exiting: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.util.XMLUtils.mangleXmlString(XMLUtils.java:122)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.util.XMLUtils.addSaxString(XMLUtils.java:193)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogOp.appendAclEntriesToXml(FSEditLogOp.java:4085)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogOp.access$3300(FSEditLogOp.java:132)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogOp$SetAclOp.toXml(FSEditLogOp.java:3528)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogOp.outputToXml(FSEditLogOp.java:3928)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.offlineEditsViewer.XmlEditsVisitor.visitOp(XmlEditsVisitor.java:116)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.offlineEditsViewer.OfflineEditsBinaryLoader.loadEdits(OfflineEditsBinaryLoader.java:80)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.offlineEditsViewer.OfflineEditsViewer.go(OfflineEditsViewer.java:142)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.offlineEditsViewer.OfflineEditsViewer.run(OfflineEditsViewer.java:228)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:84)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.offlineEditsViewer.OfflineEditsViewer.main(OfflineEditsViewer.java:237)
[root@hdfs-nfs current]# 

This is reproducible by setting an acl on a file and then running the OEV on the editsinprogress file.

The stats and binary parsers run OK.

Issue Links

• relates to: HDFS-4685 Implementation of ACLs in HDFS