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AsyncBufferedIterator.close() could hang forever when the iterator it wraps swallows the interrupt; it now also stops the background thread with a flag.

  • close() sets a volatile stopped flag before interrupting, and the background thread checks it after each read, so it stops even when the wrapped iterator catches the interrupt, clears it and throws something else, as AsyncBlockCompressedInputStream does.
  • The new test wraps an iterator that does exactly that and runs close() on a daemon thread, failing instead of hanging if close() doesn't return.

Found while reading broadinstitute/picard#2063, which reported 3 hangs in 1,000 closes.

Fixes #1944

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed an issue where closing an asynchronous buffered iterator could hang indefinitely if the underlying iterator ignored thread interrupts. Closing now completes without waiting for that iterator to respond, making shutdown more reliable.

… swallowed

close() stopped the background thread only by interrupting it. An
iterator that catches the interrupt, clears it and throws something
else, as AsyncBlockCompressedInputStream does while it waits for a
read-ahead block, made the thread queue that exception as a read
failure and read on until the queue was full, so put() and then
close()'s join() waited forever.

close() now sets a volatile flag before it interrupts, and the thread
checks it after each read. Setting it first means that a thread which
has seen the interrupt also sees the flag, and one that checked the
flag before close() still has the interrupt pending, so its put()
throws rather than blocks.
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AsyncBufferedIterator.close() now sets a stop flag before interrupting its background thread. The read loop checks the flag after reads and exits even when the wrapped iterator clears the interrupt. A regression test covers this case.

Changes: AsyncBufferedIterator shutdown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stop signal and background exit
src/main/java/htsjdk/samtools/util/AsyncBufferedIterator.java
close() sets a volatile stop flag before interrupting the background thread. readAhead() and backgroundRun() check the flag and stop reading without enqueuing another block.
Shutdown regression test and release note
src/test/java/htsjdk/samtools/util/AsyncBufferedIteratorTest.java, CHANGELOG.md
A test verifies that close() completes when the wrapped iterator swallows an interrupt. The changelog records the fix in the 6.0.1 patch release.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

  • samtools/htsjdk#1943: Addresses failure handling in AsyncBlockCompressedInputStream, a related asynchronous BGZF read path.
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 50c01

This change stops close() from hanging when the wrapped iterator swallows an interrupt and then throws. A hang remains possible if the iterator instead returns a record and its next hasNext() blocks. That case is narrow and was already present, so merging is low risk; checking the stop flag right after next() would close it.

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Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title names the main change: AsyncBufferedIterator's background thread now stops on close() even when the wrapped iterator swallows the interrupt. The raw summary and PR objectives both describe a…
Linked Issues check Passed The PR meets the coding requirements in issue #1944. AsyncBufferedIterator.close() sets the volatile stopped flag before interrupting and joining the background thread. readAhead() checks the fl…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #1944. The production change stops the background thread during close, the test covers the interrupt-swallowing case, and the changelog entry documents the fix. No unrela…
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The title names the main change: AsyncBufferedIterator's background thread now stops on close() even when the wrapped iterator swallows the interrupt. The raw summary and PR objectives both describe a volatile stop flag, checked after each read, that makes this happen. The title is specific, concise, and matches the changeset.

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The PR meets the coding requirements in issue #1944. AsyncBufferedIterator.close() sets the volatile stopped flag before interrupting and joining the background thread. readAhead() checks the flag during reads, and backgroundRun() checks it before queue insertion. The new test uses an iterator that swallows the interrupt and verifies that close() returns within a timeout.

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- Line 210: Update the AsyncBufferedIterator producer loop to check the stopped
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underlyingIterator.hasNext() again, so shutdown does not enter another
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