io: zero parquet buffers that can hold inherited nulls - #23777
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A required leaf under an optional or repeated ancestor has no validity of its own but is absent whenever the ancestor is null. Decode writes only the slots of present values, so the reader could scan string lengths or other value slots that were never written and produce invalid offsets or crash. Reported in NVIDIA#23655 with a reproducer hitting cudaErrorIllegalAddress. Track such buffers with a may_have_inherited_nulls flag, set when an element is not optional itself but sits under optional or repeated ancestors (max_definition_level > 0), propagate it through buffer copies, and memset the data array at allocation for those buffers. Test Plan: nvcc -std=c++20 -arch=sm_120 compile of column_buffer.cpp, the csv/avro/orc reader TUs, parquet reader_impl.cpp, reader_impl_helpers.cpp, reader_impl_preprocess.cu, page_hdr.cu, hybrid_scan_impl.cpp, and tests/io/parquet_reader_test.cpp: N1FIX_TUS_COMPILE clang-format 20.1.8 -style=file on touched files: clean Issue reproducer on RTX 5060 Ti against libcudf 26.10.00a302 without the fix: cudaErrorIllegalAddress (core dumped) Running the new gtest needs a full libcudf build tree which this environment lacks; CI covers RequiredBinaryUnderNullStruct
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WalkthroughThe Parquet reader now tracks inherited-null metadata for required leaf buffers under nullable ancestors. Allocation and copying preserve this metadata. Regression tests poison reused GPU memory before decoding required binary and integer values. ChangesParquet inherited-null handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR zero-fills Parquet buffers that may contain inherited nulls, preventing invalid child data from producing corrupted offsets or memory access failures. It is mergeable with owner awareness that the regression test should use the active memory resource so the failure condition is deterministically exercised. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@cpp/src/io/parquet/reader_impl_helpers.cpp`:
- Around line 2014-2019: The inherited-null flag currently checks only the
source-zero schema; derive it from the mapped leaf schema for every selected
source so optional or repeated ancestry in any source calls
set_may_have_inherited_nulls(), including when source zero has
max_definition_level 0. Add a regression test covering an optional-ancestor
source selected after a required-ancestor source.
In `@cpp/src/io/parquet/reader_impl_preprocess.cu`:
- Around line 973-977: Add a unit benchmark covering inherited-null buffer
initialization in the preprocessing paths using create_with_mask, including
required leaves beneath nullable ancestors. Measure both fixed-width and
variable-width output buffers, and include the corresponding path near the other
create_with_mask call as well.
In `@cpp/tests/io/parquet_reader_test.cpp`:
- Around line 1832-1836: Update the regression test around read_parquet to read
the same file multiple times and assert each returned table against expected,
rather than validating only one result. Preserve the existing
parquet_reader_options setup and add controlled memory reuse for a later
iteration only if the test harness already provides that capability.
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Same inherited-null shape as the string case but with an INT32 leaf, asserting that the unwritten value slot of the null-ancestor row reads back as zero.
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Added a second regression case, |
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In `@cpp/tests/io/parquet_reader_test.cpp`:
- Around line 1888-1892: Update the test around read_parquet to read the same
file several times and compare each result to expected with
CUDF_TEST_EXPECT_TABLES_EQUAL, ensuring repeated reads exercise allocator reuse
rather than validating only one result.
- Around line 1840-1893: Add benchmark coverage alongside the Parquet reader
tests for reads containing required fixed-width and binary leaves beneath
nullable struct ancestors, measuring the device-buffer initialization performed
for inherited-null rows. Reuse the existing test data patterns and benchmark
conventions, and include cases corresponding to RequiredIntUnderNullStruct and
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A single read can pass without the fix when the allocator hands back zeroed pages. The second read reuses dirty pool memory so the length and value slots of inherited-null rows are observed with stale content if they were not zero-filled.
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Both regression tests now read their file twice; the second read reuses dirty pool memory, so the tests cannot pass on freshly zeroed pages alone. On the benchmark suggestion: this change adds one conditional memset pass per flagged buffer at allocation, and the cost is bounded to files that actually contain required-under-optional nesting; happy to add an nvbench case if maintainers want numbers. |
… the pool in tests Group buffers either carry no data (structs) or have their offsets fully written during decode, so restricting the flag to leaves avoids needless memsets on list offset and element buffers while keeping the fix for the shapes that need it. The regression tests now churn the pool with garbage between reads so an unwritten slot is observed with stale bytes rather than a fresh zeroed page that would mask the bug.
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In `@cpp/tests/io/parquet_reader_test.cpp`:
- Around line 1836-1843: Replace the direct cudaMalloc/cudaMemset/cudaFree
poisoning loop in ParquetReaderTest with allocations and deallocations through
the active RMM memory resource, preserving the existing size set and 0xEE
initialization so buffers returned by read_parquet are reliably poisoned even
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| // churn the pool with garbage so an unwritten slot holds stale bytes instead of a fresh | ||
| // zeroed page, which would let the test pass without the fix | ||
| for (auto size : {size_t{64}, size_t{4096}, size_t{1} << 16}) { | ||
| void* poison = nullptr; | ||
| CUDF_CUDA_TRY(cudaMalloc(&poison, size)); | ||
| CUDF_CUDA_TRY(cudaMemset(poison, 0xEE, size)); | ||
| CUDF_CUDA_TRY(cudaFree(poison)); | ||
| } |
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Use the active RMM resource to poison reader buffers.
ParquetReaderTest uses a configurable resource that defaults to a pool and may be asynchronous. Direct cudaMalloc/cudaFree allocations are not guaranteed to dirty buffers returned by read_parquet.
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In `@cpp/tests/io/parquet_reader_test.cpp` around lines 1836 - 1843, Replace the
direct cudaMalloc/cudaMemset/cudaFree poisoning loop in ParquetReaderTest with
allocations and deallocations through the active RMM memory resource, preserving
the existing size set and 0xEE initialization so buffers returned by
read_parquet are reliably poisoned even with asynchronous pool resources.
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Description
Fixes #23655.
A required Parquet leaf under an optional (or repeated) ancestor has no validity map of its own, but it is absent for every row where an ancestor is null. The reader allocates the column buffer's data array uninitialized and the page decode writes only the slots of present values. For a required BYTE_ARRAY leaf that means string length slots of inherited-null rows keep stale heap content; scanning all length slots into offsets then produces garbage offsets and allocation sizes. Running the issue's reproducer against libcudf 26.10.00a302 on an RTX 5060 Ti ends with
cudaErrorIllegalAddressinside the RMM pool after a read.The change:
column_buffer_basegains amay_have_inherited_nullsflag with setter/getter.aggregate_reader_metadata::select_columnssets it for elements whose repetition type is not OPTIONAL but whosemax_definition_level > 0, i.e. some ancestor was optional or repeated.copy_buffer_datapropagates the flag so chunked reads and the hybrid scan reader keep it across buffer clones.allocate_columnsallocation sites pass the flag intocreate_with_mask's existingmemset_dataparameter, so buffers that can hold inherited nulls are zero-filled at allocation regardless of leaf width. Fixed-width leaves under optional ancestors have the same gap (their value slots at inherited-null rows stay unwritten and nothing zeroes them), so the fill is deliberately not restricted to variable-width types.RequiredBinaryUnderNullStruct: writesoptional group s { required binary payload }viacreate_structs_hierarchy(the structs column wrapper would superimpose parent nulls onto the child and change the schema), reads it back, and compares against a struct null at row 5 with an all-valid empty-string child there.Checklist
Test Plan
Compile check of every touched translation unit plus the neighboring reader TUs against nightly libcudf 26.10.00a302 / CUDA 12.9 in a Linux container (nvcc 12.9,
-arch=sm_120):clang-format 20.1.8 (
-style=file) run on all touched files: clean.Issue reproducer (self-contained C++ program from #23655), RTX 5060 Ti, libcudf 26.10.00a302, without this fix:
The new gtest itself needs a full libcudf build tree which this Windows host cannot produce; CI will execute
RequiredBinaryUnderNullStruct.This PR was prepared with AI assistance; the commits contain no AI attribution per repo policy.