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  1. HBase
  2. HBASE-17113

finding middle key in HFileV2 is always wrong and can cause IndexOutOfBoundsException

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • 0.94.17, 1.1.7, 0.98.23, 1.2.4, 2.0.0
    • None
    • HFile
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    Description

      When we want to split a region, we need to get the middle rowkey from the biggest store file.

      Here is the code from HFileBlockIndex.midkey() which help us find a approximation middle key.

      // Caching, using pread, assuming this is not a compaction.
              HFileBlock midLeafBlock = cachingBlockReader.readBlock(
                  midLeafBlockOffset, midLeafBlockOnDiskSize, true, true, false, true,
                  BlockType.LEAF_INDEX, null);
      
              ByteBuffer b = midLeafBlock.getBufferWithoutHeader();
              int numDataBlocks = b.getInt();
              int keyRelOffset = b.getInt(Bytes.SIZEOF_INT * (midKeyEntry + 1));
              int keyLen = b.getInt(Bytes.SIZEOF_INT * (midKeyEntry + 2)) -
                  keyRelOffset - SECONDARY_INDEX_ENTRY_OVERHEAD;
              int keyOffset = Bytes.SIZEOF_INT * (numDataBlocks + 2) + keyRelOffset
                  + SECONDARY_INDEX_ENTRY_OVERHEAD;
              targetMidKey = ByteBufferUtils.toBytes(b, keyOffset, keyLen);
      

      and in each entry of Non-root block index contains three object:
      1. Offset of the block referenced by this entry in the file (long)
      2 .Ondisk size of the referenced block (int)
      3. RowKey.

      But when we caculating the keyLen from the entry, we forget to take away the 12 byte overhead(1,2 above, SECONDARY_INDEX_ENTRY_OVERHEAD in the code). So the keyLen is always 12 bytes bigger than the real rowkey length.
      Every time we read the rowkey form the entry, we read 12 bytes from the next entry.
      No exception will throw unless the middle key is in the last entry of the Non-root block index. which will cause a IndexOutOfBoundsException. That is exactly what HBASE-16097 is suffering from.

      2016-11-16 05:27:31,991 ERROR [MemStoreFlusher.1] regionserver.MemStoreFlusher: Cache flusher failed for entry [flush region hitsdb,\x14\x03\x83\x1AX\x1A\x9A \x00\x00\x07\x00\x00\x07\x00\x00\x09\x00\x00\x09\x00\x01\x9F\x00F\xE3\x00\x00\x0A\x00\x01~\x00\x00\x08\x00\x5C\x09\x00\x03\x11\x00\xEF\x99,1478311873096.79d3f7f285396b6896f3229e2bcac7af.]
      java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
              at java.nio.Buffer.checkIndex(Buffer.java:532)
              at java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.get(HeapByteBuffer.java:139)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.ByteBufferUtils.toBytes(ByteBufferUtils.java:490)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.HFileBlockIndex$BlockIndexReader.midkey(HFileBlockIndex.java:349)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.HFileReaderV2.midkey(HFileReaderV2.java:529)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.StoreFile$Reader.midkey(StoreFile.java:1527)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.StoreFile.getFileSplitPoint(StoreFile.java:684)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.DefaultStoreFileManager.getSplitPoint(DefaultStoreFileManager.java:126)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HStore.getSplitPoint(HStore.java:1976)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.RegionSplitPolicy.getSplitPoint(RegionSplitPolicy.java:82)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.checkSplit(HRegion.java:7614)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.MemStoreFlusher.flushRegion(MemStoreFlusher.java:521)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.MemStoreFlusher.flushRegion(MemStoreFlusher.java:471)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.MemStoreFlusher.access$800(MemStoreFlusher.java:75)
              at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.MemStoreFlusher$FlushHandler.run(MemStoreFlusher.java:259)
              at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:756)
      
      

      It is a quite serious bug. It may exsits from HFileV2 was invented. But no one has found out! Since this bug ONLY happens when finding a middlekey, and since we compare a rowkey from the left side, adding 12 bytes more to the right side is totally OK, no one cares!
      It even won't throw IndexOutOfBoundsException before HBASE-12297. since Arrays.copyOfRange is used, which will check the limit to ensue the length won't running past the end of the array.
      But now, ByteBufferUtils.toBytes is used and IndexOutOfBoundsException will been thrown.

      It happens in our production environment. Because of this bug, the region can't be split can grow bigger and bigger.

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        1. HBASE-17113-branch-1.patch
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          Allan Yang

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