Summary:
`db_stress` is a user of `FaultInjectionTestFS`. After injecting a write error, `db_stress` probabilistically determins
data drop (https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/6.27.fb/db_stress_tool/db_stress_test_base.cc#L2615:L2619).
In some of our recent runs of `db_stress`, we found duplicate trailing entries corresponding to file trivial move in
the MANIFEST, causing the recovery to fail, because the file move operation is not idempotent: you cannot delete a
file from a given level twice.
Investigation suggests that data buffering in both `WritableFileWriter` and `FaultInjectionTestFS` may be the root cause.
WritableFileWriter buffers data to write in a memory buffer, `WritableFileWriter::buf_`. After each
`WriteBuffered()`/`WriteBufferedWithChecksum()` succeeds, the `buf_` is cleared.
If the underlying file `WritableFileWriter::writable_file_` is opened in buffered IO mode, then `FaultInjectionTestFS`
buffers data written for each file until next file sync. After an injected error, user of `FaultInjectionFS` can
choose to drop some or none of previously buffered data. If `db_stress` does not drop any unsynced data, then
such data will still exist in the `FaultInjectionTestFS`'s buffer.
Existing implementation of `WritableileWriter::WriteBuffered()` does not clear `buf_` if there is an error. This may lead
to the data being buffered two copies: one in `WritableFileWriter`, and another in `FaultInjectionTestFS`.
We also know that the `WritableFileWriter` of MANIFEST file will close upon an error. During `Close()`, it will flush the
content in `buf_`. If no write error is injected to `FaultInjectionTestFS` this time, then we end up with two copies of the
data appended to the file.
To fix, we clear the `WritableFileWriter::buf_` upon failure as well. We focus this PR on files opened in non-direct mode.
This PR includes a unit test to reproduce a case when write error injection
to `WritableFile` can cause duplicate trailing entries.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/9236
Test Plan: make check
Reviewed By: zhichao-cao
Differential Revision: D33033984
Pulled By: riversand963
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Yanqin Jin
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