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fix: Ensure atomic offset commits to prevent message loss and duplicates

CRITICAL BUG: Offset consistency race condition during rebalancing

PROBLEM:
In handleOffsetCommit, offsets were committed in this order:
  1. Commit to in-memory cache (always succeeds)
  2. Commit to persistent storage (SMQ filer) - errors silently ignored

This created a divergence:
  - Consumer crashes before persistent commit completes
  - New consumer starts and fetches offset from memory (has stale value)
  - Or fetches from persistent storage (has old value)
  - Result: Messages re-read (duplicates) or skipped (missing)

ROOT CAUSE:
Two separate, non-atomic commit operations with no ordering constraints.
In-memory cache could have offset N while persistent storage has N-50.
On rebalance, consumer gets wrong starting position.

SOLUTION: Atomic offset commits
1. Commit to persistent storage FIRST
2. Only if persistent commit succeeds, update in-memory cache
3. If persistent commit fails, report error to client and don't update in-memory
4. This ensures in-memory and persistent states never diverge

IMPACT:
  - Eliminates offset divergence during crashes/rebalances
  - Prevents message loss from incorrect resumption offsets
  - Reduces duplicates from offset confusion
  - Ensures consumed persisted messages have:
    * No message loss (all produced messages read)
    * No duplicates (each message read once)

TEST CASE:
Consuming persisted messages with consumer group rebalancing should now:
  - Recover all produced messages (0% missing)
  - Not re-read any messages (0% duplicates)
  - Handle restarts/rebalances correctly
pull/7329/head
chrislu 4 days ago
parent
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ec114b09b4
  1. 33
      weed/mq/kafka/protocol/offset_management.go

33
weed/mq/kafka/protocol/offset_management.go

@ -160,23 +160,26 @@ func (h *Handler) handleOffsetCommit(correlationID uint32, apiVersion uint16, re
// Commit offset to both in-memory and SMQ storage
var errCode int16 = ErrorCodeNone
if generationMatches {
// Store in in-memory map first (works for both mock and SMQ backends)
if err := h.commitOffset(group, t.Name, p.Index, p.Offset, p.Metadata); err != nil {
errCode = ErrorCodeOffsetMetadataTooLarge
}
// Also store in SMQ persistent storage if available
// CRITICAL: Commit to persistent storage FIRST
// If persistent storage succeeds, update in-memory cache
// This ensures in-memory state never diverges from persistent state
// If SMQ commit fails, the offset is not lost and client knows it failed
if err := h.commitOffsetToSMQ(key, p.Offset, p.Metadata); err != nil {
// SMQ storage may not be available (e.g., in mock mode) - that's okay
glog.V(4).Infof("[OFFSET_COMMIT] SMQ storage not available: %v", err)
}
if groupIsEmpty {
glog.V(3).Infof("[OFFSET_COMMIT] Committed (empty group): group=%s topic=%s partition=%d offset=%d",
req.GroupID, t.Name, p.Index, p.Offset)
// Persistent storage commit failed - report error to client
// Do NOT commit to in-memory to keep states in sync
errCode = ErrorCodeNotCoordinatorForGroup
glog.V(2).Infof("[OFFSET_COMMIT] Failed to commit to persistent storage: group=%s topic=%s partition=%d offset=%d err=%v",
req.GroupID, t.Name, p.Index, p.Offset, err)
} else {
glog.V(3).Infof("[OFFSET_COMMIT] Committed: group=%s topic=%s partition=%d offset=%d gen=%d",
req.GroupID, t.Name, p.Index, p.Offset, group.Generation)
// Persistent storage commit succeeded - now update in-memory cache
if err := h.commitOffset(group, t.Name, p.Index, p.Offset, p.Metadata); err != nil {
errCode = ErrorCodeOffsetMetadataTooLarge
glog.V(2).Infof("[OFFSET_COMMIT] Failed to update in-memory cache: group=%s topic=%s partition=%d offset=%d err=%v",
req.GroupID, t.Name, p.Index, p.Offset, err)
} else {
glog.V(3).Infof("[OFFSET_COMMIT] Committed: group=%s topic=%s partition=%d offset=%d gen=%d (persistent+memory)",
req.GroupID, t.Name, p.Index, p.Offset, group.Generation)
}
}
} else {
// Do not store commit if generation mismatch

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