This is an automated cherry-pick of pingcap#4084

Signed-off-by: ti-chi-bot <[email protected]>

cdc/processor/pipeline/sink.go

@@ -140,12 +140,21 @@ func (n *sinkNode) flushSink(ctx pipeline.NodeContext, resolvedTs model.Ts) (err
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Trace(err)
 	}
+
+	// we must call flowController.Release immediately after we call
+	// FlushRowChangedEvents to prevent deadlock cause by checkpointTs
+	// fall back
+	n.flowController.Release(checkpointTs)
+
+	// the checkpointTs may fall back in some situation such as:
+	//   1. This table is newly added to the processor
+	//   2. There is one table in the processor that has a smaller
+	//   checkpointTs than this one
 	if checkpointTs <= n.checkpointTs {
 		return nil
 	}
 	atomic.StoreUint64(&n.checkpointTs, checkpointTs)
 
-	n.flowController.Release(checkpointTs)
 	return nil
 }
 

cdc/processor/pipeline/sink_test.go

@@ -559,3 +559,60 @@ func (s *outputSuite) TestSplitUpdateEventWhenDisableOldValue(c *check.C) {
 	c.Assert(node.eventBuffer[insertEventIndex].Row.Columns, check.HasLen, 2)
 	c.Assert(node.eventBuffer[insertEventIndex].Row.PreColumns, check.HasLen, 0)
 }
+
+type flushFlowController struct {
+	mockFlowController
+	releaseCounter int
+}
+
+func (c *flushFlowController) Release(resolvedTs uint64) {
+	c.releaseCounter++
+}
+
+type flushSink struct {
+	mockSink
+}
+
+// use to simulate the situation that resolvedTs return from sink manager
+// fall back
+var fallBackResolvedTs = uint64(10)
+
+func (s *flushSink) FlushRowChangedEvents(ctx context.Context, _ model.TableID, resolvedTs uint64) (uint64, error) {
+	if resolvedTs == fallBackResolvedTs {
+		return 0, nil
+	}
+	return resolvedTs, nil
+}
+
+// TestFlushSinkReleaseFlowController tests sinkNode.flushSink method will always
+// call flowController.Release to release the memory quota of the table to avoid
+// deadlock if there is no error occur
+func (s *outputSuite) TestFlushSinkReleaseFlowController(c *check.C) {
+	defer testleak.AfterTest(c)()
+	ctx := cdcContext.NewContext(context.Background(), &cdcContext.GlobalVars{})
+	cfg := config.GetDefaultReplicaConfig()
+	cfg.EnableOldValue = false
+	ctx = cdcContext.WithChangefeedVars(ctx, &cdcContext.ChangefeedVars{
+		ID: "changefeed-id-test-flushSink",
+		Info: &model.ChangeFeedInfo{
+			StartTs: oracle.GoTimeToTS(time.Now()),
+			Config:  cfg,
+		},
+	})
+	flowController := &flushFlowController{}
+	sink := &flushSink{}
+	// sNode is a sinkNode
+	sNode := newSinkNode(1, sink, 0, 10, flowController)
+	c.Assert(sNode.Init(pipeline.MockNodeContext4Test(ctx, pipeline.Message{}, nil)), check.IsNil)
+	sNode.barrierTs = 10
+
+	err := sNode.flushSink(context.Background(), uint64(8))
+	c.Assert(err, check.IsNil)
+	c.Assert(sNode.checkpointTs, check.Equals, uint64(8))
+	c.Assert(flowController.releaseCounter, check.Equals, 1)
+	// resolvedTs will fall back in this call
+	err = sNode.flushSink(context.Background(), uint64(10))
+	c.Assert(err, check.IsNil)
+	c.Assert(sNode.checkpointTs, check.Equals, uint64(8))
+	c.Assert(flowController.releaseCounter, check.Equals, 2)
+}

cdc/sink/table_sink.go

@@ -34,10 +34,14 @@ type tableSink struct {
 	redoManager redo.LogManager
 }
 
+<<<<<<< HEAD
 func (t *tableSink) Initialize(ctx context.Context, tableInfo []*model.SimpleTableInfo) error {
 	// do nothing
 	return nil
 }
+=======
+var _ Sink = (*tableSink)(nil)
+>>>>>>> 623143076 (sink (ticdc): fix a deadlock due to checkpointTs fall back in sinkNode (#4084))
 
 func (t *tableSink) EmitRowChangedEvents(ctx context.Context, rows ...*model.RowChangedEvent) error {
 	t.buffer = append(t.buffer, rows...)
@@ -132,7 +136,7 @@ func (t *tableSink) EmitCheckpointTs(ctx context.Context, ts uint64) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// Note once the Close is called, no more events can be written to this table sink
+// Close once the method is called, no more events can be written to this table sink
 func (t *tableSink) Close(ctx context.Context) error {
 	return t.manager.destroyTableSink(ctx, t.tableID)
 }

pkg/pipeline/test.go

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ func SendMessageToNode4Test(ctx context.Context, node Node, msgs []Message, outp
 	return Message{}, nil
 }
 
-// MockNodeContext4Test creates a node context with a message and a output channel for tests.
+// MockNodeContext4Test creates a node context with a message and an output channel for tests.
 func MockNodeContext4Test(ctx context.Context, msg Message, outputCh chan Message) NodeContext {
 	return NewNodeContext(ctx, msg, outputCh)
 }