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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

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  • 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 query expressions now return clear request errors instead of failing when required arguments or join inputs are missing.
    • Exchange tasks without receiver metadata are rejected with a request error.
    • Invalid records-per-chunk values now use the default for non-CHBlock encodings; supported values remain unchanged.
    • Average-threshold calculations now report an error when concurrency is zero.

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The changes add validation for zero concurrency, malformed DAG expressions and joins, and ExchangeSender metadata. For non-CHBlock response writers, invalid chunk sizes now use the default. Tests cover these checks and valid input cases.

Changes: DAG and MPP input validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
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 0 or less than -1 now use DEFAULT_DAG_RECORDS_PER_CHUNK. Tests compare output with default-sized reference output and check accepted values.
Expression argument 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 produce BadRequest exceptions. Tests cover invalid inputs and valid IN and GROUP_CONCAT cases.
Join child validation and traversal
dbms/src/Flash/Statistics/traverseExecutors.cpp, dbms/src/Flash/tests/gtest_traverse_executors.cpp
Join traversal now requires exactly two children. Tests cover invalid child counts, a missing Join payload, and traversal and field collection for a valid Join.
Receiver and concurrency 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
getAverageThreshold now requires positive concurrency through RUNTIME_CHECK. MPP tunnel registration rejects an ExchangeSender with no encoded task metadata. Tests cover the threshold values and empty receiver lists.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

Suggested reviewers: windtalker, xzhangxian1008, jayson-huang

Merge Risk: Low · up to 8318b

The validation changes have no established blocking defect. Merging is reasonable with follow-up output assertions for accepted chunk sizes 1 and -1.

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Linked Issues check Passed Issue #11234 is closed. It supplies historical context only, so no active directly linked issue imposes coding requirements on this pull request. The reported changes match the historical defect conte…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed production files implement the stated validation and runtime-safety fixes for DAG expressions, response chunk sizes, Join traversal, ExchangeSender receiver metadata, and concurrency. The …
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And counts the chunks to make them nice.
Two Join ears, no missing mate,
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Nitpick comments: 1

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

173-174: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert output for records-per-chunk sizes 1 and -1.

AllowsNonzeroRecordsPerChunk checks only that the writer constructors do not throw for -1 and 1. InvalidRecordsPerChunkUsesDefault checks output only for 0, -2, and the Int64 minimum. The streaming and max-buffered-bytes tests use other sizes and check row totals or report counts, not chunk boundaries.

If normalization changed 1 or -1 to DEFAULT_DAG_RECORDS_PER_CHUNK, these tests would still pass. The unary writer encodes -1 as one chunk and splits other sizes at the configured boundary. A chunk-count or rows-per-chunk assertion would detect that change.

Add output checks for sizes 1 and -1 in the unary and streaming writer tests. Check the chunk count and the rows in each chunk.

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Review comment at @dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/tests/gtest_streaming_writer.cpp
around lines 173 - 174:
Extend the unary and streaming writer tests for records-per-chunk values 1 and
-1 to assert the emitted chunk count and the number of rows in each chunk, so
the checks verify chunk boundaries rather than only constructor success or total
rows. Keep the existing coverage in AllowsNonzeroRecordsPerChunk and
InvalidRecordsPerChunkUsesDefault unchanged.

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Review comments at @dbms/src/Flash/Coprocessor/tests/gtest_streaming_writer.cpp:
- Around line 173-174: Extend the unary and streaming writer tests for
records-per-chunk values 1 and -1 to assert the emitted chunk count and the
number of rows in each chunk, so the checks verify chunk boundaries rather than
only constructor success or total rows. Keep the existing coverage in
AllowsNonzeroRecordsPerChunk and InvalidRecordsPerChunkUsesDefault unchanged.

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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
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  • 2026-11-09 12:17:16.229535302 +0000 UTC m=+1100960.854685569: ☑️ agreed by windtalker.
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