Monitor's ParallelMatcher starts blocking worker tasks in its constructor that only finish() releases: a Monitor#match that fails before finish() (an exception such as TooManyClauses from the presearcher, or a rejected submit) leaves its workers parked on the executor forever, and an executor that runs a worker on the calling thread (CallerRunsPolicy on a saturated pool) makes Monitor#match hang

Finding LFV-637Area: monitor / ParallelMatcher worker lifecycle (Monitor#match)Priority: lowImpact: hangNovelty: new

AI-assisted finding, confirmed by automated checks, not yet triaged by a human Lucene committer. This site files nothing upstream.

What it shows

You match documents with Monitor#match using ParallelMatcher.factory(executor, matcher, threads), for example on Executors.newFixedThreadPool(threads), and you expect what the default serial matcher does: Monitor#match returns the matches or throws, and leaves nothing running on your executor. Instead the ParallelMatcher constructor submits threads workers that only finish() can release, so when the match throws before finish() (here IndexSearcher.TooManyClauses from the presearcher for a document with terms in 1,025 fields used by registered queries, the same exception the serial matcher throws) the workers stay parked forever and the next valid match on the same pool never returns. A rejected submit leaks the already-accepted workers the same way, and with CallerRunsPolicy on a saturated pool the calling thread runs a worker itself and Monitor#match never returns.

The test shows that a Monitor#match with ParallelMatcher that throws after the matcher is created (TooManyClauses for a document with terms in 1,025 query fields) leaves the constructor's worker blocked in queue.take() on the caller's 1-thread pool.

Expected vs actual

Expected: the match throws and the pool terminates after shutdown(). Actual (-ea and -da): the pool is still running its worker 5 s after shutdown().

Files

src/org/apache/lucene/monitor/TestParallelMatcherFailedMatch.java (JUnit test)

Run it

Tested on Lucene main e1faeba08bde (2026-11-02): still reproduces.
Tested on Lucene main 645d4fe14a20 (2026-10-28): reproduced.
Recorded outcome of run 1 on Lucene main 645d4fe14a20: 1 test(s) run, 1 failed.
How to read the outcome: a failing test is the finding reproducing (the failure message states expected against actual).
Seeds: a rerun with the same seed replays the same random choices. Assertions off (-da -dsa -Dtests.asserts=false) is the production-like setting.

# Lucene checkout at the tested commit, built with: ./gradlew --no-daemon assemble   (JDK 25)
LUCENE=/path/to/lucene; V=12.0.0-SNAPSHOT
CP=$LUCENE/lucene/core/build/libs/lucene-core-$V.jar
CP=$CP:$LUCENE/lucene/codecs/build/libs/lucene-codecs-$V.jar
CP=$CP:$LUCENE/lucene/test-framework/build/libs/lucene-test-framework-$V.jar
CP=$CP:$LUCENE/lucene/analysis/common/build/libs/lucene-analysis-common-$V.jar
CP=$CP:$LUCENE/lucene/memory/build/libs/lucene-memory-$V.jar
CP=$CP:$LUCENE/lucene/monitor/build/libs/lucene-monitor-$V.jar
CP=$CP:randomizedtesting-runner-2.9.2.jar:junit-4.13.2.jar:hamcrest-3.0.jar   # test-framework dependencies (Maven Central)
CP=$CP:junit-platform-console-standalone-6.1.3.jar   # JUnit Platform console launcher (Maven Central)

javac -d classes -cp "$CP" $(find src -name '*.java')

# run 1: assertions on, seed DEADBEEF
java -ea -esa --add-modules jdk.incubator.vector --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED -Dtests.seed=DEADBEEF \
     -cp "classes:$CP" org.junit.platform.console.ConsoleLauncher \
     execute --select-class org.apache.lucene.monitor.TestParallelMatcherFailedMatch

Gradle alternative: copy the test into the matching module's src/test/ tree of the checkout and run ./gradlew -p lucene/<module> test --tests <class> -Ptests.seed=<seed> (add -Ptests.asserts=false for a run without assertions).

Formal models and scripts this finding's part of the hunt used: executor-pluggable-behaviour-sweep

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