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Re: rep_read_contents() edge case checksum error, FSFS f7

From: Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan2_at_apache.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:09:17 +0100

On 29.01.2017 22:27, Julian Foad wrote:
> Stefan, is this an edge case bug?
>
> rep_read_contents() in libsvn_fs_fs/cached_data.c_at_1780363 is quoted below.
>
> rep_read_contents() potentially reads one or more times from the fulltext cache
> and then finds the fulltext cache is no longer available. I suppose this could
> happen because the entry could be evicted because other entries are being more
> recently/frequently accessed even though we haven't finished calling
> rep_read_contents() for this particular rep.
>
> In this case, rep_read_contents() calls skip_contents() to skip-read from the
> window stream, to catch up that stream to the point we'd already reached in the
> fulltext cache before it became unavailable.
>
> Then we read the requested LEN bytes from the window stream, and update the
> calculated checksum with those LEN bytes ... but not with the skipped bytes.
>
> Won't that lead to a checksum mismatch when we reach the end of the rep?

Yes, that looks like a bug. I'll fix it next weekend.

The problem is not f7-specific and will only be transient
b/c the next reader will miss the cache and reconstruct
the content from the first window on.

Also, using bulk updates should reduce the incident rate
of this issue.

-- Stefan^2.
Received on 2017-01-30 20:09:24 CET

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