Github user NicoK commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4581#discussion_r152813796 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/partition/SpillableSubpartitionTest.java --- @@ -192,21 +198,39 @@ public void testConsumeSpilledPartition() throws Exception { Buffer read = reader.getNextBuffer(); assertNotNull(read); + assertNotSame(buffer, read); + assertFalse(read.isRecycled()); read.recycle(); + assertTrue(read.isRecycled()); read = reader.getNextBuffer(); assertNotNull(read); + assertNotSame(buffer, read); + assertFalse(read.isRecycled()); read.recycle(); + assertTrue(read.isRecycled()); --- End diff -- alright...extracted those changes into a separate hotfix
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