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  1. MariaDB Connector/J
  2. CONJ-863

Ensure socket state when SocketTimeout occurs

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed (View Workflow)
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.7.2
    • 2.7.4
    • aurora
    • None
    • Java 8, Aurora MySQL 5.7

    Description

      When the Driver encounters a "SocketTimeoutException - Read timed out" it doesn't force close the Socket, leaving the TCP connection open and therefore doesn't rollback previously started transactions on the database.

      If the Read timeout happens because of temporary high load or some temporary locks this can cause a situation where zombie transactions keep holding locks / are being executed for a very long time effectively causing a majority of the table to become locked and transactions piling up.

      Example Scenarion (default 10s socketTimeout):
      00:00 -> BEGIN;
      00:00 -> DELETE FROM MyTable WHERE reference = '1234';
      00:10 -> Socket read timeout, driver abandons the connection - but doesn't close the Socket
      00:15 -> Worst case the query is being retried by the client because it failed before ... (causing even more hanging transactions)
      00:25 -> Delete complete - but never committed or rolled back since the TCP connection is abandoned by the driver (but the TCP connection is still Valid/Open).

      From our experience there is no recovery from this situation other than a manual database failover / restart of all services to force close all zombie tcp connections by shutting down the JVMs & transactions caused by the driver.

      Fix
      After a couple incidents on our production system we've ended up manually patching the driver to call the following code in `AbstractQueryProtocol.handleIoException.

      public class AbstractQueryProtocol extends AbstractConnectProtocol implements Protocol {
        public SQLException handleIoException(Exception initialException) {
          ....
          else if (initialException instanceof SocketTimeoutException) {
            maxSizeError = false;
            try {
              destroySocket();
            } catch (Exception e) {
              logger.info("Failed to close socket after SocketTimeoutException - " + e.getMessage());
            }
          }
          ....
        }
      }
      

      Since MySQL 5.7/Aurora doesn't support the `max_statement_time` of MariaDB there is currently no good way of dealing with this issue from our knowledge (setting a wait_timeout of 10s would have the same effect, but this causes other problems with connection pooling).

      Reproduction
      1. Create MyTable
      2. Connect with MariaDB/J driver - low socketTimeout
      3. Manually execute `LOCK TABLES MyTable WRITE`
      4. Run `BEGIN; INSERT INTO MyTable ..;` from Java
      5. After Read timeout has occured check `SHOW PROCESSLIST`, our transaction is still there, but it will never get committed or rolled back by the driver.
      Note: Same behaviour when using a very large table and attempt to execute any DML that exceeds the socketTimeout.

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            diego dupin Diego Dupin
            Aquint Emil von Wattenwyl
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