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This is an automated cherry-pick of #11233

What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #11234

Problem Summary:

Malformed IN and GROUP_CONCAT expressions can reach unchecked child access. A zero DAG response chunk size can make encoding loop without advancing the row index while accumulating chunks. Join traversal assumes two children without checking their count, and tunnel/threshold calculations can divide by zero for empty receiver lists or zero concurrency.

What is changed and how it works?

Flash: validate DAG expressions, sizes, and concurrency

Validate GROUP_CONCAT and IN arguments before child access, normalize
invalid response chunk sizes, reject malformed Join and ExchangeSender
inputs, and guard zero concurrency in average threshold calculations.

• Require GROUP_CONCAT to contain at least one value and a separator before building its arguments, including the ORDER BY path.
• Reject IN expressions without a left operand in both function construction and exprToString, preserving the existing behavior for an empty right-hand set.
• Normalize chunk sizes of 0 or less than -1 to DEFAULT_DAG_RECORDS_PER_CHUNK (1024), preserving the existing -1 sentinel and CHBlock behavior.
• Reject Join executors unless they have a Join payload and exactly two children before accessing either child.
• Reject an ExchangeSender with no encoded receiver task metadata before registering tunnels or computing per-tunnel limits.
• Replace the debug-only concurrency assertion in getAverageThreshold with a runtime exception check.

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Tests

• Unit test
• Integration test
• Manual test (add detailed scripts or steps below)
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Validation:

• Configured with cmake --preset dev and built gtests_dbms with cmake --build --preset unit-tests -j 8.
• All 20 selected tests passed with the filter below. The full test suite was not run.
• Expression tests cover all six supported IN signatures, both unsafe IN entry points, empty/nonempty IN sets, and malformed/valid GROUP_CONCAT arguments with and without ORDER BY.
• Response tests compare 1025 rows encoded with invalid chunk sizes (0, -2, and INT64_MIN) against default-sized output for unary and streaming writers across all three encodings.
• Join tests cover missing Join payloads, child counts of 0/1/3, valid traversal order, and output field collection. MPP preparation tests cover empty receiver lists with zero and positive memory thresholds; threshold tests cover zero concurrency and normal rounding/unlimited-threshold semantics.
• clang-format 17.0.6 validation and git diff --check passed.

cmake-build-debug/dbms/gtests_dbms --gtest_filter='TestStreamingWriter.*:TraverseExecutorsTest.*:ThresholdUtilsTest.*:TestMPPTaskManager.*:DAGExpressionAnalyzerTest.*:DAGUtilsTest.*:QueryExprTestRunner.inOp'

Side effects

• Performance regression: Consumes more CPU
• Performance regression: Consumes more Memory
• Breaking backward compatibility

Documentation

• Affects user behaviors
• Contains syntax changes
• Contains variable changes
• Contains experimental features
• Changes MySQL compatibility

Release note

Fix potential TiFlash hangs and crashes caused by malformed GROUP_CONCAT or IN expressions, invalid response chunk sizes, malformed Join executors, and zero receiver or concurrency counts.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Invalid IN, GROUP_CONCAT, join, and exchange-sender requests now return clear errors instead of proceeding with incomplete input.
  • Invalid concurrency values now trigger a runtime error.
  • Unsupported record chunk sizes now use the default for non-CHBlock encodings; CHBlock behavior is unchanged.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for malformed and valid expressions, joins, task plans, threshold values, and record chunk sizes.

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Walkthrough

The change adds checks for invalid threshold concurrency, DAG expression shapes, Join executor children, and empty MPP receiver metadata. It also normalizes invalid response chunk sizes for non-CHBlock encodings. Tests cover these cases and valid inputs.

Changes: Input validation and response handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Threshold and MPP receiver validation dbms/src/Common/ThresholdUtils.h, dbms/src/Common/tests/gtest_threshold_utils.cpp, dbms/src/Flash/Mpp/MPPTask.cpp, dbms/src/Flash/Mpp/tests/gtest_mpp_task_manager.cpp	The threshold helper now checks that concurrency is positive. MPP tunnel registration rejects an ExchangeSender with no encoded task metadata. Tests cover the threshold boundary cases and the empty receiver case.
DAG expression validation dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/DAGExpressionAnalyzer.cpp, dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/DAGExpressionAnalyzerHelper.cpp, dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/DAGUtils.cpp, dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/tests/gtest_dag_expression_analyzer.cpp	IN expressions without a left operand and GROUP_CONCAT expressions with fewer than two children now raise BadRequest errors. Tests cover malformed and valid expressions.
Join executor validation dbms/src/Flash/Statistics/traverseExecutors.cpp, dbms/src/Flash/tests/gtest_traverse_executors.cpp	Join child retrieval now rejects Join executors that do not have exactly two children. Tests cover missing Join payloads, invalid child counts, and a valid two-child Join.
Response chunk size handling dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/DAGResponseWriter.cpp, dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/tests/gtest_streaming_writer.cpp	For encodings other than CHBlock, chunk sizes of zero or below -1 now use the default chunk size. Tests compare unary and streaming writer output and cover accepted chunk sizes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• pingcap/tiflash#11233: Changes the same implementations and tests, including chunk sizes, Join validation, ExchangeSender validation, concurrency, and DAG expression checks.

Suggested labels: release-note, type/cherry-pick-for-release-nextgen-202603, size/L

Suggested reviewers: xzhangxian1008, jayson-huang, windtalker

Merge Risk: Low · up to 03439

The input-validation changes have no established blocking defect. Additional chunk-boundary tests would protect valid response chunk sizes from regressions; this is a bounded follow-up rather than a merge blocker.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 5.56% 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. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main changes: validation of DAG expressions, invalid sizes, and zero concurrency handling.
Description check		The description follows the required template and documents the problem, implementation, tests, side effects, documentation impact, and release note.
Linked Issues check		Issue #11234 is closed and provides historical context only. No active directly linked issue remains. Therefore, no linked-issue coding requirements apply to this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed production files address the documented malformed expression, chunk-size, Join, receiver-count, and concurrency failure paths. The added tests directly cover those changes. No unrelated ch…

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_{A rabbit checks the chunks in rows,
And counts the children as it goes.
No left operand? The error’s clear.
No receivers? A guard is here.
The threshold keeps its divisor sound,
While tidy answers stream around.}

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Nitpick comments: 1

dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/tests/gtest_streaming_writer.cpp: 1

173-174: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add chunk-boundary assertions for -1 and 1 with a block larger than the default chunk size.

AllowsNonzeroRecordsPerChunk only checks that construction does not throw. A change that maps -1 or 1 to DEFAULT_DAG_RECORDS_PER_CHUNK still passes both new tests. The block must have more rows than DEFAULT_DAG_RECORDS_PER_CHUNK. The unary writer encodes a block as one chunk when the value is -1. A smaller block gives the same single chunk under the default, so the regression stays hidden.

Add a test that writes this block to each writer and checks the chunk count and row data:

• Unary writer, -1: expect one chunk with all rows. The default would split the block into two chunks.
• Unary writer, 1: expect one chunk per row.
• Streaming writer, 1: expect one chunk per row. Do not assert the streaming -1 layout. Its behavior is not settled.
• CHBlock: the constructor forces -1. Expect one chunk per write for every argument.

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Review comment at @dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/tests/gtest_streaming_writer.cpp
around lines 173 - 174:
Extend AllowsNonzeroRecordsPerChunk beyond construction checks: write a block
with more rows than DEFAULT_DAG_RECORDS_PER_CHUNK to the relevant writers and
verify both chunk counts and row data. Assert UnaryDAGResponseWriter produces
one chunk for -1 and one per row for 1, StreamingDAGWriter produces one per row
for 1 without asserting its -1 layout, and CHBlock produces one chunk per write
for every argument.

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Review comments at @dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/tests/gtest_streaming_writer.cpp:
- Around line 173-174: Extend AllowsNonzeroRecordsPerChunk beyond construction
checks: write a block with more rows than DEFAULT_DAG_RECORDS_PER_CHUNK to the
relevant writers and verify both chunk counts and row data. Assert
UnaryDAGResponseWriter produces one chunk for -1 and one per row for 1,
StreamingDAGWriter produces one per row for 1 without asserting its -1 layout,
and CHBlock produces one chunk per write for every argument.

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• dbms/src/Common/ThresholdUtils.h
• dbms/src/Common/tests/gtest_threshold_utils.cpp
• dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/DAGExpressionAnalyzer.cpp
• dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/DAGExpressionAnalyzerHelper.cpp
• dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/DAGResponseWriter.cpp
• dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/DAGUtils.cpp
• dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/tests/gtest_dag_expression_analyzer.cpp
• dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/tests/gtest_streaming_writer.cpp
• dbms/src/Flash/Mpp/MPPTask.cpp
• dbms/src/Flash/Mpp/tests/gtest_mpp_task_manager.cpp
• dbms/src/Flash/Statistics/traverseExecutors.cpp
• dbms/src/Flash/tests/gtest_traverse_executors.cpp

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