[IMPALA-190] Insert with NULL partition keys results in SIGSEGV.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 0.6
• Fix Version/s: Impala 1.0
• Assignee: Alexander Behm
• Reporter: Alexander Behm
• Created: 03/Apr/13 22:00
• Updated: 20/Dec/15 00:04
• Resolved: 05/Apr/13 01:38

Description

The following query from Impala results in a SIGSEGV:

insert overwrite table functional.alltypessmall partition(year, month)
select id, bool_col, tinyint_col, smallint_col, int_col, bigint_col, float_col, double_col, date_string_col, string_col, timestamp_col,
NULL as year, NULL as month from functional.alltypessmall limit 1;

Impala log:

1. A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
   #
2. SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x0000000000b5f7be, pid=7423, tid=140470607456000
   #
3. JRE version: 6.0_26-b03
4. Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.1-b02 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
5. Problematic frame:
6. C [impalad+0x75f7be] impala::RawValue::Eq(void const*, void const*, impala::PrimitiveType)+0x96

Stack: [0x00007fc1dc98a000,0x00007fc1dca8b000], sp=0x00007fc1dca87d10, free space=1015k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [impalad+0x75f7be] impala::RawValue::Eq(void const*, void const*, impala::PrimitiveType)+0x96
C [impalad+0x991f1c] impala::HdfsTableSink::Init(impala::RuntimeState*)+0x6c6
C [impalad+0x84cef6] impala::PlanFragmentExecutor::Prepare(impala::TExecPlanFragmentParams const&)+0x12de
C [impalad+0x7f8266] impala::Coordinator::Exec(impala::TUniqueId const&, impala::TQueryExecRequest*, impala::TQueryOptions const&)+0x5a0
C [impalad+0x689ead] impala::ImpalaServer::QueryExecState::Exec(impala::TExecRequest*)+0x72d
C [impalad+0x6989aa] impala::ImpalaServer::ExecuteInternal(impala::TClientRequest const&, boost::shared_ptr<impala::ImpalaServer::SessionState>, impala::TSessionState const&, bool*, boost::shared_ptr<impala::ImpalaServer::QueryExecState>*)+0x3ae
C [impalad+0x698543] impala::ImpalaServer::Execute(impala::TClientRequest const&, boost::shared_ptr<impala::ImpalaServer::SessionState>, impala::TSessionState const&, boost::shared_ptr<impala::ImpalaServer::QueryExecState>*)+0x7d
C [impalad+0x71b472] impala::ImpalaServer::query(beeswax::QueryHandle&, beeswax::Query const&)+0x338
C [impalad+0x8c496a] beeswax::BeeswaxServiceProcessor::process_query(int, apache::thrift::protocol::TProtocol*, apache::thrift::protocol::TProtocol*, void*)+0x21c
C [impalad+0x8c46a1] beeswax::BeeswaxServiceProcessor::dispatchCall(apache::thrift::protocol::TProtocol*, apache::thrift::protocol::TProtocol*, std::string const&, int, void*)+0x2b1
C [impalad+0x8b27c7] impala::ImpalaServiceProcessor::dispatchCall(apache::thrift::protocol::TProtocol*, apache::thrift::protocol::TProtocol*, std::string const&, int, void*)+0x97
C [impalad+0x6a5bbe] apache::thrift::TDispatchProcessor::process(boost::shared_ptr<apache::thrift::protocol::TProtocol>, boost::shared_ptr<apache::thrift::protocol::TProtocol>, void*)+0xce