The spread iterator can panic when processing an evaluation, resulting
in an unrecoverable state in the cluster. Whenever a panicked server
restarts and quorum is restored, the next server to dequeue the
evaluation will panic.
To trigger this state:
* The job must have `max_parallel = 0` and a `canary >= 1`.
* The job must not have a `spread` block.
* The job must have a previous version.
* The previous version must have a `spread` block and at least one
failed allocation.
In this scenario, the desired changes include `(place 1+) (stop
1+), (ignore n) (canary 1)`. Before the scheduler can place the canary
allocation, it tries to find out which allocations can be
stopped. This passes back through the stack so that we can determine
previous-node penalties, etc. We call `SetJob` on the stack with the
previous version of the job, which will include assessing the `spread`
block (even though the results are unused). The task group spread info
state from that pass through the spread iterator is not reset when we
call `SetJob` again. When the new job version iterates over the
`groupPropertySets`, it will get an empty `spreadAttributeMap`,
resulting in an unexpected nil pointer dereference.
This changeset resets the spread iterator internal state when setting
the job, logging with a bypass around the bug in case we hit similar
cases, and a test that panics the scheduler without the patch.
Tim Gross