guard against NPE while reading FileTrailer and HFileBlock

guard against NPE from FSInputStream#seek

Signed-off-by: Michael Stack <stack@apache.org>

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/FixedFileTrailer.java

@@ -388,7 +388,8 @@ public class FixedFileTrailer {
       bufferSize = (int) fileSize;
     }
 
-    istream.seek(seekPoint);
+    HFileUtil.seekOnMultipleSources(istream, seekPoint);
+
     ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(bufferSize);
     istream.readFully(buf.array(), buf.arrayOffset(),
         buf.arrayOffset() + buf.limit());

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFileBlock.java

@@ -1512,7 +1512,7 @@ public class HFileBlock implements Cacheable {
       if (!pread && streamLock.tryLock()) {
         // Seek + read. Better for scanning.
         try {
-          istream.seek(fileOffset);
+          HFileUtil.seekOnMultipleSources(istream, fileOffset);
 
           long realOffset = istream.getPos();
           if (realOffset != fileOffset) {

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFileUtil.java

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
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+package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream;
+
+public class HFileUtil {
+
+  /** guards against NullPointer
+   * utility which tries to seek on the DFSIS and will try an alternative source
+   * if the FSDataInputStream throws an NPE HBASE-17501
+   * @param istream
+   * @param offset
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  static public void seekOnMultipleSources(FSDataInputStream istream, long offset) throws IOException {
+    try {
+      // attempt to seek inside of current blockReader
+      istream.seek(offset);
+    } catch (NullPointerException e) {
+      // retry the seek on an alternate copy of the data
+      // this can occur if the blockReader on the DFSInputStream is null
+      istream.seekToNewSource(offset);
+    }
+  }
+}