Motivation:
A callback may already have stored a initial handshake exception in ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine so we should include it when throwing a SslHandshakeException to ensure the user has all the infos when debugging.
Modifications:
Include initial handshake exception
Result:
Include all erros when throwing the SslHandshakeException.
Motivation:
DefaultPromise requires an EventExecutor which provides the thread to notify listeners on and this EventExecutor can never change. We can remove the code that supported the possibility of a changing the executor as this is not possible anymore.
Modifications:
- Remove constructor which allowed to construct a *Promise without an EventExecutor
- Remove extra state
- Adjusted SslHandler and ProxyHandler for new code
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/8517.
Motivation:
"Connection: close" header should be specified each time we're going
to close an underlying TCP connection when sending HTTP/1.1 reply.
Modifications:
Introduces changes made in #8914 for the following examples:
* WebSocket index page and WebSocket server handler
* HelloWorld server
* SPDY server handler
* HTTP/1.1 server handler from HTTP/2 HelloWorld example
* HTTP/1.1 server handler from tiles example
Result:
Keep-Alive connections management conforms with RFCs.
Motivation:
For what-ever reason Http2FrameLogger did extend ChannelHandlerAdapter but not override any of its methods. We should not extend it at all as it is not a ChannelHandler.
Modifications:
Remove extends
Result:
Less confusing / more correct / clear code.
Motivation:
We do not need to call SSL.setHostNameValidation(...) as it should be done as part of the TrustManager implementation. This is consistent with the JDK implementation of SSLEngine.
Modifications:
Remove call to SSL.setHostNameValidation(...)
Result:
More consistent behaviour between our SSLEngine implementation and the one that comes with the JDK.
Motivation:
We synchronize on the chunk.arena when produce the String returned by PoolSubpage.toString() which may raise a NPE when chunk == null. Chunk == null for the head of the linked-list and so a NPE may raised by a debugger. This NPE can never happen in real code tho as we never access toString() of the head.
Modifications:
Add null checks and so fix the possible NPE
Result:
No NPE when using a debugger and inspect the PooledByteBufAllocator.
Motivation:
We currently use a thread local cache for all threads which often is suprising to users as it may result in a lot of memory usage if they allocate buffers from outside the EventLoop in different threads. We should better not do this by default to keep suprises to a minimum. Users that need the performance and know what they are doing can still change this.
Modifications:
Change io.netty.allocator.useCacheForAllThreads to false by default
Result:
Related to https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/8536.
Motivation:
We use SSL.setKeyMaterial(...) in our implementation when using the KeyManagerFactory so we should also use it to detect if we can support KeyManagerFactory.
Modifications:
Use SSL.setKeyMaterial(...) as replacement for SSL.setCertificateBio(...)
Result:
Use the same method call to detect if KeyManagerFactory can be supported as we use in the real implementation.
Motivation:
8fdf373557 introduced the @Skip annotation which allows to optimize the way we invoke ChannelHandlers when traversing the pipeline. Now that we moved all the "default" code to the ChannelHandler interface we can make the annotation package-private to guard the user to make any mistakes which will lead to hard to debug issues.
Modifications:
Move ChannelHandler.Skip to ChannelHandlerMask.Skip and make it package-private
Result:
Guard users from introduce hard to debug issues.
Motivation:
In 42742e233f we already added default methods to Channel*Handler and deprecated the Adapter classes to simplify the class hierarchy. With this change we go even further and merge everything into just ChannelHandler. This simplifies things even more in terms of class-hierarchy.
Modifications:
- Merge ChannelInboundHandler | ChannelOutboundHandler into ChannelHandler
- Adjust code to just use ChannelHandler
- Deprecate old interfaces.
Result:
Cleaner and simpler code in terms of class-hierarchy.
Motivation:
com.puppycrawl.tools checkstyle < 8.18 was reported to contain a possible security flaw. We should upgrade.
Modifications:
- Upgrade netty-build and checkstyle.
- Fix checkstyle errors
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/8968.
Motivation:
We have multiple places where we store the exception that was produced by a callback in ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine, and so have a lot of code-duplication.
Modifications:
- Consolidate code into a package-private method that is called from the callbacks if needed
Result:
Less code-duplication and cleaner code.
Motivation:
We can just use a local variable in HttpUploadServerHandler and so make the example code a bit cleaner.
Modifications:
Use local variable.
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/8892.
Motivation:
BoringSSL supports offloading certificate validation to a different thread. This is useful as it may need to do blocking operations and so may block the EventLoop.
Modification:
- Adjust ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine to correctly handle offloaded certificate validation (just as we already have code for certificate selection).
Result:
Be able to offload certificate validation when using BoringSSL.
Motivation:
We had a bug which could case ExtendedSSLSession.getPeerSupportedSignatureAlgorithms() return an empty array when using BoringSSL. This testcase verifies we correctly return algorithms after the fix in https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative/pull/449.
Modifications:
Add testcase to verify behaviour.
Result:
Ensure we correctly retuen the algorithms.
Motivation:
We recently changed the docker config to use adoptjdk builds but missed to include the docker-sync related files.
Modifications:
Use adoptjdk there as well.
Result:
More conistent usage of JDK versions.
Motivation:
e9ce5048df added a testcase to ensure we correctly send the alert in all cases but did use a too strict message matching which did not work for BoringSSL as it not uses whitespaces but underscores.
Modifications:
Make the message matching less strict.
Result:
Test pass also when using BoringSSL.
Motivation:
Add user possibility to skip the evaluation of certain web socket extension,
for example we can skip compression extension for messages that already compressed or very small and etc.
Modification:
This pull request is related with #5669
Result:
User can set to WebSocketClientExtensionHandshaker or WebSocketServerExtensionHandshaker a filter to skip the evaluation of certain extension.
Motivation:
In MemoryRegionCache.Entry we use the Recycler to reduce GC pressure and churn. The problem is that these will also be recycled when the PoolThreadCache is collected and finalize() is called. This then can have the effect that we try to load class but the WebApp is already stoped.
This will produce an stacktrace like this on Tomcat:
```
19-Mar-2019 15:53:21.351 INFO [Finalizer] org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateForResourceLoading Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load [java.util.WeakHashMap]. The following stack trace is thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load [java.util.WeakHashMap]. The following stack trace is thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access.
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateForResourceLoading(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1383)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateForClassLoading(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1371)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1224)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1186)
at io.netty.util.Recycler$3.initialValue(Recycler.java:233)
at io.netty.util.Recycler$3.initialValue(Recycler.java:230)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocal.initialize(FastThreadLocal.java:188)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocal.get(FastThreadLocal.java:142)
at io.netty.util.Recycler$Stack.pushLater(Recycler.java:624)
at io.netty.util.Recycler$Stack.push(Recycler.java:597)
at io.netty.util.Recycler$DefaultHandle.recycle(Recycler.java:225)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache$MemoryRegionCache$Entry.recycle(PoolThreadCache.java:478)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache$MemoryRegionCache.freeEntry(PoolThreadCache.java:459)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache$MemoryRegionCache.free(PoolThreadCache.java:430)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache$MemoryRegionCache.free(PoolThreadCache.java:422)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache.free(PoolThreadCache.java:279)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache.free(PoolThreadCache.java:270)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache.free(PoolThreadCache.java:241)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache.finalize(PoolThreadCache.java:230)
at java.lang.System$2.invokeFinalize(System.java:1270)
at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.runFinalizer(Finalizer.java:102)
at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.access$100(Finalizer.java:34)
at java.lang.ref.Finalizer$FinalizerThread.run(Finalizer.java:217)
```
Beside this we also need to ensure we not try to lazy load SizeClass when the finalizer is used as it may not be present anymore if the ClassLoader is already destroyed.
This would produce an error like:
```
20-Mar-2019 11:26:35.254 INFO [Finalizer] org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateForResourceLoading Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load [io.netty.buffer.PoolArena$1]. The following stack trace is thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already. Could not load [io.netty.buffer.PoolArena$1]. The following stack trace is thrown for debugging purposes as well as to attempt to terminate the thread which caused the illegal access.
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateForResourceLoading(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1383)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateForClassLoading(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1371)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1224)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1186)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolArena.freeChunk(PoolArena.java:287)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache$MemoryRegionCache.freeEntry(PoolThreadCache.java:464)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache$MemoryRegionCache.free(PoolThreadCache.java:429)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache$MemoryRegionCache.free(PoolThreadCache.java:421)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache.free(PoolThreadCache.java:278)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache.free(PoolThreadCache.java:269)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache.free(PoolThreadCache.java:240)
at io.netty.buffer.PoolThreadCache.finalize(PoolThreadCache.java:229)
at java.lang.System$2.invokeFinalize(System.java:1270)
at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.runFinalizer(Finalizer.java:102)
at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.access$100(Finalizer.java:34)
at java.lang.ref.Finalizer$FinalizerThread.run(Finalizer.java:217)
```
Modifications:
- Only try to put the Entry back into the Recycler if the PoolThredCache is not destroyed because of the finalizer.
- Only try to access SizeClass if not triggered by finalizer.
Result:
No IllegalStateException anymoe when a webapp is reloaded in Tomcat that uses netty and uses the PooledByteBufAllocator.
Motivation:
The special case fixed in #8497 also requires that we keep a derived slice when trimming components in place, as done by the capacity(int) and discardReadBytes() methods.
Modifications:
Ensure that we keep a ref to trimmed components' original retained slice in capacity(int) and discardReadBytes() methods, so that it is released properly when the they are later freed. Add unit test which fails prior to the fix.
Result:
Edge case leak is eliminated.
Motivation:
PooledByteBufAllocator uses a PoolThreadCache per Thread that allocates / deallocates to minimize the performance overhead. This PoolThreadCache is trimmed after X allocations to free up buffers that are not allocated for a long time. This works out quite well when the app continues to allocate but fails if the app stops to allocate frequently (for whatever reason) and so a lot of memory is wasted and not given back to the arena / freed.
Modifications:
- Add a ThreadExecutorMap that offers multiple methods that wrap Runnable / ThreadFactory / Executor and allow to call ThreadExecutorMap.currentEventExecutor() to get the current executing EventExecutor for the calling Thread.
- Use these methods in the constructors of our EventExecutor implementations (which also covers the EventLoop implementations)
- Add io.netty.allocator.cacheTrimIntervalMillis system property which can be used to specify a fixed rate / interval on which we should try to trim the PoolThreadCache for a EventExecutor that allocates.
- Add PooledByteBufAllocator.trimCurrentThreadCache() to allow the user to trim the cache of the calling thread manually.
- Add testcases
- Introduce FastThreadLocal.getIfExists()
Result:
Allow to better / more frequently trim PoolThreadCache and so give back memory to the area / system.
Motivation:
https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/8963 adds property files which contains a netty copyright header but our old checkstyle regex did not correct detect these.
Modifications:
Update to new netty-build which contains an updated regex.
Result:
Be able to correctly detect copyright headers in property files.
Motivation:
It appears this was an oversight, maybe was valid at some point in the past. Noticed while reviewing #8958.
Modifications:
Change DefaultChannelHandlerContext to not extend DefaultAttributeMap.
Result:
Simpler hierarchy, eliminate unused attributes field from each context instance.
Motivation:
We dont use ObjectCleaner in our FastThreadLocal anymore so we also dont need to take special care to store it there anymore.
Modifications:
Remove code that is not needed anymore.
Result:
Code cleanup.
Motivation:
df8b9d3fb9 added config files for docker-sync but missed to add a gitignore for .docker-sync
Modifications:
Add .docker-sync to gitignore
Result:
Ignore .docker-sync directory
Motivation:
GlobalEventExecutor does already provide all guarantees of OrderedEventExecutor so it should implement it.
Modifications:
Let GlobalEventExecutor implement OrderedEventExecutor.
Result:
Make it more clear how execution order is handled in GlobalEventExecutor.
Motivation:
Since DomainSocketChannel is a DuplexChannel, which be able to shutdown input or output individually on demands, but ALLOW_HALF_CLOSURE channel option has not been supported yet.
I thought this could be a missing feature of Unix domain socket, so here the PR for it.
Modifications:
1. Added allHalfClosure property both in EpollDomainSocketChannelConfig and KQueueDomainSocketChannelConfig,
2. Enabled isAllowHalfClosure method of native channel to support domain channel config,
3. Created EpollDomainSocketShutdownOutputByPeerTest and KQueueDomainSocketShutdownOutputByPeerTest to verify the change.
Result:
ALLOW_HALF_CLOSURE channel option can be set with DomainSocketChannel, and no more warning of Unknown channel option 'ALLOW_HALF_CLOSURE'.
Motivation:
docker-sync.io helps to speed up docker FS access on macOS and so make builds there a lot faster. We should add some config to help users use it.
Modifications:
Add docker-sync configs for centos-6.18 which is what we use for releases.
Result:
Faster builds via docker and when using macOS possible.
Motivation:
This counter is very useful in order to monitor Netty without having every ByteBufAllocator in the JVM
Modification:
Expose the value of DIRECT_MEMORY_COUNTER as we are already doing for DIRECT_MEMORY_LIMIT.
We are returning -1 in case that DIRECT_MEMORY_COUNTER is not available.
Result:
Be able to get the amount of direct memory used.
Motivation:
When the verification of the server cert fails because of the used TrustManager on the client-side we need to ensure we produce the correct alert and send it to the remote peer before closing the connection.
Modifications:
- Use the correct verification mode on the client-side by default.
- Update tests
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/8942.
Motivation:
testsuite-osgi currently resolve its bundles from the local / remote maven repository, which means you will need to do `mvn install` before it can pick up the bundles. Beside this this also means that you may pick up old versions if you forgot to call `install` before running it.
Modifications:
Use alta-maven-plugin to be able to resolve bundles from the local build directory during the build.
Result:
No need to install jars before running the OSGI testsuite and ensure we always test with the latest jars.
Motivation:
We had a typo in NativeLibraryLoader debug log message which could misslead the user.
Modifications:
Fix typo to correctly state java.library.path
Result:
Correct and less confusing log message
Motivation:
According to the specification, the "Connection" header's syntax is:
"
The Connection header field's value has the following grammar:
Connection = 1#connection-option
connection-option = token
Connection options are case-insensitive.
"
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-6.1
This means that Connection's value can have at least one element or
a comma separated list with elements
When calculating whether the connection can remain open,
HttpUtil.isKeepAlive(HttpMessage) should take this into account.
Modifications:
- Check for "close" and "keep-alive" in a comma separated list
- Add unit test
Result:
HttpUtil.isKeepAlive(HttpMessage) works correctly when "Connection: Upgrade, close"
Motivation:
We want to make the experience as smooth as possible for our users when using Java9+ and so should ensure we do not produce any 'Illegal reflective access' errors when using netty.
Modifications:
Add jvmArgs when running our tests that will deny reflective access and so will fail the build at the end due not be able to load some classes.
Result:
Ensure we do not produce any illegal refelctive access errors when using java9+
Motivation:
As we now us java8 as minimum java version we can deprecate ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter / ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter and just move the default implementations into the interfaces. This makes things a bit more flexible for the end-user and also simplifies the class-hierarchy.
Modifications:
- Mark ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter and ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter as deprecated
- Add default implementations to ChannelInboundHandler / ChannelOutboundHandler
- Refactor our code to not use ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter / ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter anymore
Result:
Cleanup class-hierarchy and make things a bit more flexible.
Motivation:
At some point we needed --add-opens=java.base/java.nio=ALL-UNNAMED to run our native tests but this is not true anymore.
Modifications:
Remove --add-opens=java.base/java.nio=ALL-UNNAMED when running native tests.
Result:
Remove obsolate jvm arg.
Motivation:
We did not have any unit tests that queries for TXT records.
Modifications:
Add unit test to query TXT records.
Result:
More test-coverage.
Motivation:
The SSLSession that is returned by SSLEngine.getHandshakeSession() must be able to provide the local certificates when the TrustManager is invoked on the server-side.
Modifications:
- Correctly return the local certificates
- Add unit test
Result:
Be able to obtain local certificates from handshake SSLSession during verification on the server side.
Motivation:
When HttpContentDecoder (and so HttpContentDecompressor) does not produce any message we need to make sure it calls ctx.read() if auto read is false to not stale.
Modifications:
- Keep track if we need to call ctx.read() or not
- Add unit test
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/8915.
Motivation:
In the past we found a lot of SSL related bugs because of the interopt tests we have in place between different SSLEngine implementations. We should have as many of these interopt tests as possible for this reason.
Modifications:
- Add interopt tests between Conscrypt and OpenSSL SSLEngine implementations
Result:
More tests for SSL.
Motivation:
Simple rules:
* close the connection when sending any error
* specify "Connection: close" header when closing the connection
* successful responses should keep the connection intact when otherwise is not requested by the client
Modifications:
* "send response and cleanup the connection" logic moved to a helper
* for all successful responses set "Content-Lenght" header
* do not specify "Connection: Keep-Alive" header as far it's a default for HTTP/1.1
* set "Connection: close" header when necessary
Result:
Keep-Alive connections management is inlined with RFCs.
Motivation:
SSLEngine API has a notion of tasks that may be expensive and offload these to another thread. We did not support this when using our native implementation but can now for various operations during the handshake.
Modifications:
- Support offloading tasks during the handshake when using our native SSLEngine implementation
- Correctly handle the case when NEED_TASK is returned and nothing was consumed / produced yet
Result:
Be able to offload long running tasks from the EventLoop when using SslHandler with our native SSLEngine.
Motivation:
2bb9f64e16 introduced a change which made it possible to use different shaded versions of netty-tcnative on the classpath. This only partly worked as we did not correctly handled the case when os / arch is part of the library name (which is the case when netty-tcnative-boringssl-static is used with the uber jar).
Modifications:
- If patching the ID failed we retry again with the os / arch stripped
- Add unit tests to verify that patching ID now works with and without os / arch as suffix.
Result:
Using multiple shaded version of netty-tcnative-boringssl-static on MacOS works.
Motivation:
Netty is very widely used which can lead to a lot of pain when we break API / ABI. We should make use japicmp-maven-plugin during the build to verify we do not introduce breakage by mistake.
Modifications:
- Add japicmp-maven-plugin to the build process
- Fix a method signature change in HttpProxyHandler that was flagged as a possible problem.
Result:
Ensure no API/ABI breakage accour between releases.
Motivation:
We must only remove ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine from OpenSslEngineMap when engine is destroyed as the verifier / certificate callback may be called multiple times when the remote peer did initiate a renegotiation.
If we fail to do so we will cause an NPE like this:
```
13:16:36.750 [testsuite-oio-worker-5-18] DEBUG i.n.h.s.ReferenceCountedOpenSslServerContext - Failed to set the server-side key material
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at io.netty.handler.ssl.OpenSslKeyMaterialManager.setKeyMaterialServerSide(OpenSslKeyMaterialManager.java:69)
at io.netty.handler.ssl.ReferenceCountedOpenSslServerContext$OpenSslServerCertificateCallback.handle(ReferenceCountedOpenSslServerContext.java:212)
at io.netty.internal.tcnative.SSL.readFromSSL(Native Method)
at io.netty.handler.ssl.ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine.readPlaintextData(ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine.java:575)
at io.netty.handler.ssl.ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine.unwrap(ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine.java:1124)
at io.netty.handler.ssl.ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine.unwrap(ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine.java:1236)
at io.netty.handler.ssl.ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine.unwrap(ReferenceCountedOpenSslEngine.java:1279)
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler$SslEngineType$1.unwrap(SslHandler.java:217)
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.unwrap(SslHandler.java:1330)
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decodeNonJdkCompatible(SslHandler.java:1237)
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decode(SslHandler.java:1274)
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.decodeRemovalReentryProtection(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:502)
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:441)
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:278)
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:359)
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:345)
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:337)
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1408)
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:359)
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:345)
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:930)
at io.netty.channel.oio.AbstractOioByteChannel.doRead(AbstractOioByteChannel.java:170)
at io.netty.channel.oio.AbstractOioChannel$1.run(AbstractOioChannel.java:40)
at io.netty.channel.ThreadPerChannelEventLoop.run(ThreadPerChannelEventLoop.java:69)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$5.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:905)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
```
While the exception is kind of harmless (as we will reject the renegotiation at the end anyway) it produces some noise in the logs.
Modifications:
Don't remove engine from map after handshake is complete but wait for it to be removed until the engine is destroyed.
Result:
No more NPE and less noise in the logs.