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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-3140: --------------------------------------- Github user asfgit closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/805 > PatternSyntaxException thrown in MM, causes MM to hang > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-3140 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3140 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: tools > Reporter: Ashish K Singh > Assignee: Ashish K Singh > Fix For: 0.9.1.0 > > > On passing an invalid java regex string as whitelist to MM, > PatternSyntaxException is thrown and MM hangs. Below is relevant ST. > {code} > java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '*' near > index 0 > * > ^ > at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1955) > at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:2123) > at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:1996) > at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1696) > at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1351) > at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1028) > at > kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$MirrorMakerNewConsumer.init(MirrorMaker.scala:521) > at kafka.tools.MirrorMaker$MirrorMakerThread.run(MirrorMaker.scala:389) > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)