MDEV-22190 InnoDB: Apparent corruption of an index page ... to be written
An InnoDB check for the validity of index pages would occasionally fail in the test encryption.innodb_encryption_discard_import. An analysis of a "rr replay" failure trace revealed that the problem basically is a combination of two old anomalies, and a recently implemented optimization in MariaDB 10.5. MDEV-15528 allows InnoDB to discard buffer pool pages that were freed. PageBulk::init() will disable the InnoDB validity check, because during native ALTER TABLE (rebuilding tables or creating indexes) we could write inconsistent index pages to data files. In the occasional test failure, page 8:6 would have been written from the buffer pool to the data file and subsequently freed. However, fil_crypt_thread may perform dummy writes to pages that have been freed. In case we are causing an inconsistent page to be re-encrypted on page flush, we should disable the check. In the analyzed "rr replay" trace, a fil_crypt_thread attempted to access page 8:6 twice after it had been freed. On the first call, buf_page_get_gen(..., BUF_PEEK_IF_IN_POOL, ...) returned NULL. The second call succeeded, and shortly thereafter, the server intentionally crashed due to writing the corrupted page.
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