apache / apache/lucene

Using DirectIODirectory results in BufferOverflowException

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Description

### Description

I have a large Lucene-based application that I have recently upgraded to 9.5.0. All works fine with the existing Directory implementations, but when I try using DirectIODirectory, I get errors like the following:
```
java.nio.BufferOverflowException: null
at java.nio.Buffer.nextPutIndex(Buffer.java:666) ~[?:?]
at java.nio.DirectByteBuffer.put(DirectByteBuffer.java:331) ~[?:?]
at org.apache.lucene.misc.store.DirectIODirectory$DirectIOIndexOutput.writeByte(DirectIODirectory.java:232) ~[lucene-misc-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.codecs.CodecUtil.writeBEInt(CodecUtil.java:653) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.codecs.CodecUtil.writeHeader(CodecUtil.java:82) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.codecs.CodecUtil.writeIndexHeader(CodecUtil.java:125) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene90.compressing.Lucene90CompressingStoredFieldsWriter.(Lucene90CompressingStoredFieldsWriter.java:137) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-0
1-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene90.compressing.Lucene90CompressingStoredFieldsFormat.fieldsWriter(Lucene90CompressingStoredFieldsFormat.java:140) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 -
2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene90.Lucene90StoredFieldsFormat.fieldsWriter(Lucene90StoredFieldsFormat.java:154) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentMerger.mergeFields(SegmentMerger.java:233) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentMerger.mergeWithLogging(SegmentMerger.java:273) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentMerger.merge(SegmentMerger.java:110) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.mergeMiddle(IndexWriter.java:5140) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.merge(IndexWriter.java:4680) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter$IndexWriterMergeSource.merge(IndexWriter.java:6432) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.index.SerialMergeScheduler.merge(SerialMergeScheduler.java:38) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at com.nuix.load.lucene.s$a.merge(SourceFile:330) ~[nuix-processing-9.11.2.3097+sits-7cf07c727f8.jar:9.11.2.3097+sits-7cf07c727f8]
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.prepareCommitInternal(IndexWriter.java:3693) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.commitInternal(IndexWriter.java:4043) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.commit(IndexWriter.java:4005) ~[lucene-core-9.5.0.jar:9.5.0 13803aa6ea7fee91f798cfeded4296182ac43a21 - 2023-01-25 16:44:59]
```

### Version and environment details

9.5.0 on Linux using DirectIODirectory with NIOFSDirectory.

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Research direction

Start in org.apache.lucene.misc.store.DirectIODirectory, especially DirectIOIndexOutput.writeByte at line 232, using the stack trace as the entry point. Reproduce an index merge and commit with DirectIODirectory on Linux alongside NIOFSDirectory, then confirm that the BufferOverflowException no longer occurs.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
backend, search
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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