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Type:
Bug
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Status: Closed
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: 3.3.0
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Component/s: None
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Labels:None
It is possible for basic LeaderElection to enter a situation where it never terminates.
As an example, consider a three node cluster A, B and C.
1. In the first round, A votes for A, B votes for B and C votes for C
2. Since C > B > A, all nodes resolve to vote for C in the second round as there is no first round winner
3. A, B vote for C, but C fails.
4. C is not elected because neither A nor B hear from it, and so votes for it are discarded
5. A and B never reset their votes, despite not hearing from C, so continue to vote for it ad infinitum.
Step 5 is the bug. If A and B reset their votes to themselves in the case where the heard-from vote set is empty, leader election will continue.
I do not know if this affects running ZK clusters, as it is possible that the out-of-band failure detection protocols may cause leader election to be restarted anyhow, but I've certainly seen this in tests.
I have a trivial patch which fixes it, but it needs a test (and tests for race conditions are hard to write!)
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- Resolved
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