From bed2b17a444ee960268da0c05d1ca5365bdf2d98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valery Kharseko <vharseko@3a-systems.ru>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:29:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [#802] Fail fast when the replication server cannot read its changelog (#805)

---
 opendj-server-legacy/src/main/java/org/opends/server/replication/server/ReplicationServer.java |  153 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

diff --git a/opendj-server-legacy/src/main/java/org/opends/server/replication/server/ReplicationServer.java b/opendj-server-legacy/src/main/java/org/opends/server/replication/server/ReplicationServer.java
index d94f169..4bea167 100644
--- a/opendj-server-legacy/src/main/java/org/opends/server/replication/server/ReplicationServer.java
+++ b/opendj-server-legacy/src/main/java/org/opends/server/replication/server/ReplicationServer.java
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@
   private static final int LISTEN_PORT_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 200;
 
   private volatile ServerSocket listenSocket;
-  private Thread listenThread;
+  /** Volatile like its socket above: a port change reads it from the configuration thread. */
+  private volatile Thread listenThread;
   private Thread connectThread;
 
   /** The current configuration of this replication server. */
@@ -130,8 +131,6 @@
   private boolean externalChangelogRegistered;
 
   private final AtomicBoolean shutdown = new AtomicBoolean();
-  /** Written by the thread applying a configuration change, read by the listen thread. */
-  private volatile boolean stopListen;
   private final ReplSessionSecurity replSessionSecurity;
 
   private static final LocalizedLogger logger = LocalizedLogger.getLoggerForThisClass();
@@ -155,6 +154,15 @@
    */
   static final AtomicInteger listenPortBindFailures = new AtomicInteger();
 
+  /**
+   * Number of listen port changes whose wait for the previous listen thread was interrupted.
+   * <p>
+   * This is required for unit testing: a wait which is interrupted and a wait which is over
+   * before it starts leave this replication server in the same state, so nothing else tells
+   * a test that it exercised the interruption instead of passing over it.
+   */
+  static final AtomicInteger interruptedListenThreadStops = new AtomicInteger();
+
   /** Monitors for synchronizing domain creation with the connect thread. */
   private final Object domainTicketLock = new Object();
   private final Object connectThreadLock = new Object();
@@ -260,15 +268,22 @@
    * This thread accept incoming connections on the replication server
    * ports from other replication servers or from LDAP servers
    * and spawn further thread responsible for handling those connections
+   * <p>
+   * The socket is the one this thread was created for, not the one this replication server
+   * currently listens on: closing it is what stops this thread, and it is then the only
+   * thread it stops, even when another one is already listening on another port.
+   *
+   * @param socket
+   *          the bound socket this thread accepts connections on
    */
-  void runListen()
+  void runListen(ServerSocket socket)
   {
     logger.info(NOTE_REPLICATION_SERVER_LISTENING,
         getServerId(),
-        listenSocket.getInetAddress().getHostAddress(),
-        listenSocket.getLocalPort());
+        socket.getInetAddress().getHostAddress(),
+        socket.getLocalPort());
 
-    while (!shutdown.get() && !stopListen)
+    while (!shutdown.get() && !socket.isClosed())
     {
       // Wait on the replicationServer port.
       // Read incoming messages and create LDAP or ReplicationServer listener
@@ -279,7 +294,7 @@
         Socket newSocket = null;
         try
         {
-          newSocket = listenSocket.accept();
+          newSocket = socket.accept();
           newSocket.setTcpNoDelay(true);
           newSocket.setKeepAlive(true);
           int timeoutMS = MultimasterReplication.getConnectionTimeoutMS();
@@ -486,8 +501,8 @@
    * Initialization function for the replicationServer.
    *
    * @throws ConfigException
-   *           when the replication server cannot be started, in particular when its listen
-   *           port cannot be bound.
+   *           when the replication server cannot be started, in particular when its changelog
+   *           cannot be read or when its listen port cannot be bound.
    */
   private void initialize() throws ConfigException
   {
@@ -495,9 +510,13 @@
 
     try
     {
+      // Assigned before the changelog is opened: the monitor instance name of the domains it
+      // restores, and of their changelogs, embeds it, and a provider registered under a name
+      // which later changes can never be deregistered again.
+      setServerURL();
+
       this.changelogDB.initializeDB();
 
-      setServerURL();
       // Assigned before the threads are created, so that a failure below still releases it.
       listenSocket = bindListenPort(getReplicationPort());
 
@@ -520,6 +539,12 @@
       {
         logger.trace("RS " + getMonitorInstanceName() + " successfully initialized");
       }
+    } catch (ChangelogException e)
+    {
+      // A replication server which cannot read its changelog is as dead as one which cannot
+      // bind its listen port (issue #802). The message already names the changelog directory.
+      logger.traceException(e);
+      throw new ConfigException(e.getMessageObject(), e);
     } catch (UnknownHostException e)
     {
       // Not logged here: the caller reports the ConfigException, logging it once.
@@ -527,8 +552,8 @@
       throw new ConfigException(ERR_UNKNOWN_HOSTNAME.get(), e);
     } catch (IOException e)
     {
-      // A replication server whose listen port is not bound is dead: every consumer would
-      // otherwise only learn about it as a "connection refused" somewhere else.
+      // Every consumer would otherwise only learn about it as a "connection refused"
+      // somewhere else (issue #792).
       logger.traceException(e);
       throw new ConfigException(bindFailureMessage(getReplicationPort(), e), e);
     }
@@ -582,28 +607,29 @@
   }
 
   /**
-   * Stops the listen thread and releases the listen port.
+   * Stops the listen thread of the provided listen socket and releases that port.
+   * <p>
+   * Both are the ones the thread was started on rather than the current ones, so this stops
+   * that thread only, even when another one is already listening on another port.
    *
+   * @param socket
+   *          the listen socket to close, which is what stops its thread
+   * @param thread
+   *          the listen thread of that socket, {@code null} when it was never started
    * @throws InterruptedException
    *           if this thread is interrupted while waiting for the listen thread to stop
    */
-  private void stopListenThread() throws InterruptedException
+  private void stopListenThread(ServerSocket socket, Thread thread) throws InterruptedException
   {
-    stopListen = true;
-    close(listenSocket);
-    if (listenThread != null)
+    close(socket);
+    if (thread != null)
     {
-      listenThread.join();
-      listenThread = null;
+      thread.join();
     }
   }
 
   /**
    * Starts a listen thread on the provided listen socket.
-   * <p>
-   * {@code stopListen} is only cleared here, i.e. once the listen port is bound, so a
-   * failure to bind leaves this replication server consistently stopped rather than with a
-   * listen thread which would spin on a closed socket.
    *
    * @param boundListenSocket
    *          the bound socket the listen thread will accept connections on
@@ -611,30 +637,40 @@
   private void startListenThread(ServerSocket boundListenSocket)
   {
     listenSocket = boundListenSocket;
-    stopListen = false;
-    listenThread = new ReplicationServerListenThread(this);
+    listenThread = new ReplicationServerListenThread(this, boundListenSocket);
     listenThread.start();
   }
 
   /**
    * Switches the listen port to the one of the provided configuration.
    * <p>
-   * The new port is bound while the current one is still open and serving, so a failure
-   * leaves this replication server listening on its current port, with its current
-   * configuration: there is nothing to roll back, and no window during which this
-   * replication server advertises a port that nothing listens to.
+   * The new port is bound, and its listen thread started, while the current one is still
+   * open and serving. A failure therefore leaves this replication server listening on its
+   * current port, with its current configuration: there is nothing to roll back, and there
+   * is no window during which this replication server listens on no port at all.
+   * <p>
+   * The trade is a window during which both ports accept, so a peer which connects to the
+   * previous port just before it is released gets a session which outlives the change. That
+   * is the deliberate inverse of a window during which nothing listens at all.
    *
    * @param newConfig
    *          the configuration being applied, whose listen port differs from the current one
    * @param ccr
    *          the result of the configuration change, to which a failure is added
+   * @param listenThreadStopInterrupted
+   *          set when the wait for the previous listen thread was interrupted, instead of
+   *          restoring the interrupt status here: the caller restores it once the rest of
+   *          the change, some of which is interruptible, has run
    * @return {@code true} when this replication server listens on the new port, in which
    *         case {@code newConfig} has become its configuration
    */
-  private boolean switchListenPort(ReplicationServerCfg newConfig, ConfigChangeResult ccr)
+  private boolean switchListenPort(ReplicationServerCfg newConfig, ConfigChangeResult ccr,
+      AtomicBoolean listenThreadStopInterrupted)
   {
     final ReplicationServerCfg previousConfig = this.config;
     final String previousServerURL = serverURL;
+    final ServerSocket previousListenSocket = listenSocket;
+    final Thread previousListenThread = listenThread;
     final int newPort = newConfig.getReplicationPort();
     ServerSocket newListenSocket = null;
     try
@@ -645,12 +681,28 @@
       this.config = newConfig;
       setServerURL();
 
-      stopListenThread();
+      // The new port is served before the current one is released, so that this replication
+      // server is never left with no listener at all, whatever happens next.
       startListenThread(newListenSocket);
       newListenSocket = null;
 
+      // In step with getReplicationPort(), which answers the new port from here on: the
+      // wait below blocks for as long as the previous thread takes to serve its current
+      // connection, and localPorts must not trail it for that whole window.
       localPorts.remove(previousConfig.getReplicationPort());
       localPorts.add(newPort);
+      try
+      {
+        stopListenThread(previousListenSocket, previousListenThread);
+      }
+      catch (InterruptedException e)
+      {
+        // The previous port is already released and its thread stops on its own as soon as
+        // it wakes up on its closed socket: only the wait for it was cut short.
+        interruptedListenThreadStops.incrementAndGet();
+        listenThreadStopInterrupted.set(true);
+        logger.traceException(e);
+      }
       return true;
     }
     catch (UnknownHostException e)
@@ -666,15 +718,6 @@
       ccr.setResultCode(ResultCode.OPERATIONS_ERROR);
       ccr.addMessage(bindFailureMessage(newPort, e));
     }
-    catch (InterruptedException e)
-    {
-      // The previous listen thread may still be running, so do not hand it a new socket:
-      // stopListen is still set, which makes that thread stop as soon as it wakes up.
-      Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
-      logger.traceException(e);
-      ccr.setResultCode(ResultCode.OPERATIONS_ERROR);
-      ccr.addMessage(ERR_COULD_NOT_STOP_LISTEN_THREAD.get(getExceptionMessage(e)));
-    }
     // The failure is reported through the ConfigChangeResult, which the configuration
     // handler logs: nothing of the new configuration was applied.
     this.config = previousConfig;
@@ -754,6 +797,22 @@
     {
       listenThread.interrupt();
     }
+    // Opening the changelog restores one domain per domain it holds, and each of them starts
+    // its threads and registers its monitor provider: a failure after that point, such as a
+    // listen port which cannot be bound, would otherwise leave them behind. Shut them down
+    // before the changelog they write to, and one unchecked exception at a time: the changelog
+    // this one is built on is known to be broken, and what follows still has to run.
+    for (ReplicationServerDomain domain : getReplicationServerDomains())
+    {
+      try
+      {
+        domain.shutdown();
+      }
+      catch (RuntimeException ignored)
+      {
+        logger.traceException(ignored);
+      }
+    }
     shutdownExternalChangelog();
     if (this.changelogDB != null)
     {
@@ -1195,8 +1254,9 @@
     // done first, and the new port is bound before the current one is released, so that a
     // change which cannot be applied leaves this replication server as it was, instead of
     // half configured and, worse, without any listener.
+    final AtomicBoolean listenThreadStopInterrupted = new AtomicBoolean();
     if (configuration.getReplicationPort() != oldConfig.getReplicationPort()
-        && !switchListenPort(configuration, ccr))
+        && !switchListenPort(configuration, ccr, listenThreadStopInterrupted))
     {
       return ccr;
     }
@@ -1262,6 +1322,15 @@
     {
       ccr.setAdminActionRequired(true);
     }
+
+    // The interrupt which cut short the wait for the previous listen thread, deferred by
+    // switchListenPort(): restored only now, because the steps above include interruptible
+    // ones — stopping the handlers of removed replication servers locks interruptibly —
+    // which an interrupt status left set would have failed while the change reports SUCCESS.
+    if (listenThreadStopInterrupted.get())
+    {
+      Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+    }
     return ccr;
   }
 

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