Summary:
When ReadOption doesn't specify a snapshot, WritePrepared::Get used kMaxSequenceNumber to avoid the cost of creating a new snapshot object (that requires sync over db_mutex). This creates a race condition if it is reading from the writes of a transaction that had duplicate keys: each instance of duplicate key is inserted with a different sequence number and depending on the ordering the ::Get might skip the newer one and read the older one that is obsolete.
The patch fixes that by using last published seq as the snapshot sequence number. It also adds a check after the read is done to ensure that the max_evicted_seq has not advanced the aforementioned seq, which is a very unlikely event. If it did, then the read is not valid since the seq is not backed by an actually snapshot to let IsInSnapshot handle that properly when an overlapping commit is evicted from commit cache.
A unit test is added to reproduce the race condition with duplicate keys.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/5147
Differential Revision: D14758815
Pulled By: maysamyabandeh
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