Fix for KAFKA-7974: Avoid zombie AdminClient when node host isn't resolvable

[nickbp]

When attempting to get topic list via KafkaAdminClient against a server that isn't resolvable, the worker thread can get killed as follows, leading to a zombie KafkaAdminClient:

ERROR [kafka-admin-client-thread | adminclient-1] 2019-02-18 01:00:45,597 KafkaThread.java:51 - Uncaught exception in thread 'kafka-admin-client-thread | adminclient-1':
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No entry found for connection 0
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.ClusterConnectionStates.nodeState(ClusterConnectionStates.java:330)
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.ClusterConnectionStates.disconnected(ClusterConnectionStates.java:134)
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.initiateConnect(NetworkClient.java:921)
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.ready(NetworkClient.java:287)
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.KafkaAdminClient$AdminClientRunnable.sendEligibleCalls(KafkaAdminClient.java:898)
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.KafkaAdminClient$AdminClientRunnable.run(KafkaAdminClient.java:1113)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

It looks like cause is a bug in state handling between NetworkClient and ClusterConnectionStates:

• NetworkClient.ready() invokes this.initiateConnect() as seen in the above stacktrace
• NetworkClient.initiateConnect() invokes ClusterConnectionStates.connecting(), which internally invokes ClientUtils.resolve() to resolve the host when creating an entry for the connection.
• If this host lookup fails, a UnknownHostException can be thrown back to NetworkClient.initiateConnect() and the connection entry is not created in ClusterConnectionStates. This exception doesn't currently get logged so this is a guess on my part.
• NetworkClient.initiateConnect() catches the exception and attempts to call ClusterConnectionStates.disconnected(), which throws an IllegalStateException because no entry had yet been created due to the lookup failure.
• This IllegalStateException ends up killing the worker thread and KafkaAdminClient gets stuck, never returning from listTopics().

This PR includes a unit test which reproduces the original issue (matching stacktrace) and verifies the fix.

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• Verify design and implementation
• Verify test coverage and CI build status
• Verify documentation (including upgrade notes)

[ijuma]

Cc @cmccabe

[cmccabe]

Good find, @nickbp . The fix seems a bit incomplete in the sense that there are more exceptions that we could get, besides UnknownHostException. It seems like perhaps this line:

        } else {
            nodeState.put(id, new NodeConnectionState(ConnectionState.CONNECTING, now,
                this.reconnectBackoffInitMs, host, clientDnsLookup));
        }

Could catch the possible exceptions and then create a Disconnected connection, and rethrow, so that we didn't get more issues later on if something else throws here.

Or perhaps there is another way to make this more robust-- that was just the first that came to mind.

[nickbp]

Good point. I was able to change the strategy of the fix to instead clean up when the host resolution actually occurs within ClusterConnectionStates.

Previously the resolve was happening automatically with the initial construction of the CONNECTING entry, leading to a missing entry and IllegalStateException when the connection was then marked disconnected. This fix switches to performing no resolution when the entry is first created, instead only performing it on-demand when currentAddress() is called explicitly. This allows NetworkClient to cleanly mark the entry as disconnected when resolution fails.

[cmccabe]

Can we add JavaDoc for host and clientDnsLookup, while we're changing this?

[nickbp]

Done

[cmccabe]

LGTM

[cmccabe]

retest this please

[nickbp]

FWIW I locally ran the failing CI tests against the branch and they were successful:

$ gradle :core:test --tests=*ConsumerBounce*
> Configure project :
Building project 'core' with Scala version 2.12.8
Building project 'streams-scala' with Scala version 2.12.8
[...]
> Task :core:test
kafka.api.ConsumerBounceTest > testCloseDuringRebalance PASSED
kafka.api.ConsumerBounceTest > testClose PASSED
kafka.api.ConsumerBounceTest > testSeekAndCommitWithBrokerFailures PASSED
kafka.api.ConsumerBounceTest > testConsumerReceivesFatalExceptionWhenGroupPassesMaxSize PASSED
kafka.api.ConsumerBounceTest > testSubscribeWhenTopicUnavailable PASSED
kafka.api.ConsumerBounceTest > testRollingBrokerRestartsWithSmallerMaxGroupSizeConfigDisruptsBigGroup PASSED
kafka.api.ConsumerBounceTest > testConsumptionWithBrokerFailures SKIPPED

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 4m 41s
14 actionable tasks: 9 executed, 5 up-to-date

$ gradle :core:test --tests=*CustomQuotaCallbackTest*
> Configure project :
Building project 'core' with Scala version 2.12.8
Building project 'streams-scala' with Scala version 2.12.8
[...]
> Task :core:test
kafka.api.CustomQuotaCallbackTest > testCustomQuotaCallback PASSED

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 1m 24s
14 actionable tasks: 8 executed, 6 up-to-date

[nickbp]

Done

[nickbp]

Looks like the build is green now, btw. Anything else needed before a merge?

[ijuma]

@cmccabe looks like this is ready to be merged since you approved it and the build is green.

[cmccabe]

Thanks, @nickbp !

[ijuma]

@cmccabe I cherry-picked this to the 2.1 and 2.2 branches as it seems like an important fix. Also cc @rajinisivaram who is familiar with this code.

[manderson23]

@ijuma is this likely to go in to the 2.2 branch soon?

[ijuma]

@manderson23 it's done now. I was running the tests locally before doing the push and had ran out of time.

[kpmeen]

I stumbled onto this issue a couple of days ago when trying to run an application in K8s. Any estimates for when a build will be ready with this fix?

[nickbp]

I likewise originally encountered this in a K8s environment. The core issue leading to this bug arising was the result of DNS requests round-robining between CoreDNS instances which were individually eventually consistent but as a group not consistent at all, with entries popping in and out of existence as pods were brought up and some but not all CoreDNS instances knew about them at any given moment.

To avoid the inconsistency issues, I was able to use the following workarounds in my K8s 1.13.x environment. With these workarounds a patch to the Kafka clients was not required to avoid the issue. YMMV:

• kubectl edit service kube-dns --namespace=kube-system: Edit the sessionAffinity value to be ClientIP rather than None. This avoids rotating DNS lookups between CoreDNS instances, which can result in host records appearing to pop in and out of existence. Confirm the change with kubectl get service kube-dns --namespace=kube-system -o yaml
• kubectl edit configmap coredns --namespace=kube-system: Edit the Corefile entry to have cache 30. By default this is 300. This ensures that DNS caches are updated every 30s rather than 5 minutes, which should result in pods deploying more quickly after having set sessionAffinity=ClientIP in the previous step. Confirm the change with kubectl get configmap coredns --namespace=kube-system -o yaml

[kpmeen]

@nickbp interesting...

I'll give that a go too. My workaround was to implement a simple, blocking, utility function that will attempt to resolve the host(s) for a finite duration n. If the host(s) cannot be resolved within the configured time, the application is terminated. It works for me at least.

[nickbp]

Yeah the issue I was seeing was that after a utility check found the entry to be resolvable, it could still then become "unresolvable" due to dns lookup round-robining to a dns instance that didn't know about the host yet

[bertdewolf]

Is this available in any release? I can't seem to find it...