lmr3796 commented on a change in pull request #9435: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/9435#discussion_r533154067
########## File path: core/src/main/scala/kafka/server/KafkaApis.scala ########## @@ -1250,13 +1251,23 @@ class KafkaApis(val requestChannel: RequestChannel, metadataResponseTopic(Errors.INVALID_REPLICATION_FACTOR, topic, true, util.Collections.emptyList()) else topicMetadata - } else if (allowAutoTopicCreation && config.autoCreateTopicsEnable) { + } else if (!isFetchAllMetadata && allowAutoTopicCreation && config.autoCreateTopicsEnable) { + // KAFKA-10606: If this request is to get metadata for all topics, auto topic creation should not be allowed + // The special handling is necessary on broker side because allowAutoTopicCreation is hard coded to true + // for backward compatibility on client side. createTopic(topic, config.numPartitions, config.defaultReplicationFactor) } else { metadataResponseTopic(Errors.UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION, topic, false, util.Collections.emptyList()) Review comment: Also, I added the assertion of no UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION into the unit test ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org