Bug 64560

Summary: DeltaSession discards pending deltas when changeSessionId() is called
Product: Tomcat 9 Reporter: Max Lohrmann <post>
Component: ClusterAssignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: post
Priority: P2    
Version: 9.0.34   
Target Milestone: -----   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description Max Lohrmann 2020-06-25 09:36:15 UTC
I had a problem in an application using Spring Security and using clustering with DeltaManager where some attributes would be replicated while others would not during login.

Basically what I was seeing was:

- First request to tomcat A
- Session attributes on both tomcats afterwards:
A=1
B=2

- Second request to tomcat A
- Session attributes on tomcat A afterwards:
C=1
B=3
- Session attributes on tomcat B afterwards:
A=1
B=3

Thus resulting in an invalid application state.

Using a debugger the calls on the session for the second request were:

removeAttribute("C");
setAttribute("C",1);
changeSessionId();
setAttribute("B",3);

So it looks like all attribute changes made before changeSessionId got lost in replication.

After looking at the tomcat code I think this is an issue with tomcat, because the changeSessionId calls DeltaSession#setId which in turn calls DeltaSession#resetDeltaRequest() which then discards the buffered AttributeInfo, so by the time the ReplicationValve is executed, only the last setAttribute call is seen as a delta.
Comment 1 Max Lohrmann 2020-06-25 09:40:39 UTC
Sorry, typo. 
It should have said

removeAttribute("A");

above (not C).
Comment 2 Mark Thomas 2020-06-29 20:26:44 UTC
Thanks for the report and for tracking down what was going on.

I agree with your assessment.

I have refactored the setId() methods.

Fixed in:
- master for 10.0.0-M7 onwards
- 9.0.x for 9.0.37 onwards
- 8.5.x for 8.5.57 onwards
- 7.0.x for 7.0.105 onwards