NPE in HandlerSubscriber in Play 2.5.9

[wsargent]

From playframework/playframework#7166

2017-03-19 00:58:35,217 [netty-event-loop-14] ERROR p.c.server.netty.PlayRequestHandler - Exception caught in Netty
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at com.typesafe.netty.HandlerSubscriber.maybeRequestMore(HandlerSubscriber.java:271)
	at com.typesafe.netty.HandlerSubscriber.channelWritabilityChanged(HandlerSubscriber.java:130)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:438)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:420)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:413)
	at io.netty.channel.ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter.channelWritabilityChanged(ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter.java:119)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:438)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:420)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:413)
	at io.netty.channel.ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter.channelWritabilityChanged(ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter.java:119)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:438)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:420)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:413)
	at io.netty.channel.ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter.channelWritabilityChanged(ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter.java:119)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:438)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:420)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:413)
	at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelWritabilityChanged(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1317)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:438)
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelWritabilityChanged(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:420)
	at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelWritabilityChanged(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:923)
	at io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundBuffer$2.run(ChannelOutboundBuffer.java:583)
	at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor.runAllTasks(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:408)
	at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:441)
	at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$2.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:140)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

[dgolombek]

I'm seeing this too. I believe it's tied to how HandlerPublisher.receiveCancel() sets subscriber to null without changing state. It feels like something in the cancel chain should set state to NO_SUBSCRIBER (or NO_SUBSCRIBER_OR_CONTEXT)

[mkurz]

@dgolombek If you can find out what's going on exactly and provide a fix that would me great 👍

[dgolombek]

Ooops, looks like my stacktrace is slightly different, I'll file a different Issue and submit a patch for that one.

[mkurz]

Does anyone still experience this problem? If not I am going to close this ticket next time I visit it.