NPE on batched query execution when the request is part of PIT with alias filters

docs/changelog/128552.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+pr: 128552
+summary: Fix - NPE on batched query execution when the request is part of PIT with alias filters
+area: Search
+type: bug
+issues: []

server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/PointInTimeIT.java

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.ExceptionsHelper;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.NoShardAvailableActionException;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.reroute.ClusterRerouteUtils;
+import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.alias.Alias;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.stats.CommonStats;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.stats.ShardStats;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.support.IndicesOptions;
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Random;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
@@ -126,6 +128,44 @@ public void testBasic() {
         }
     }
 
+    public void testIndexWithAlias() {
+        String indexName = "index_1";
+        String alias = "alias_1";
+        assertAcked(
+            indicesAdmin().prepareCreate(indexName)
+                .setSettings(indexSettings(10, 0))
+                .addAlias(new Alias(alias).filter("{\"term\":{\"tag\":\"a\"}}"))
+        );
+
+        Random random = new Random();
+        int numDocs = randomIntBetween(50, 150);
+
+        int countTagA = 0;
+        for (int i = 0; i < numDocs; i++) {
+            boolean isA = random.nextBoolean();
+            if (isA) countTagA++;
+            prepareIndex(indexName).setId(Integer.toString(i)).setSource("tag", isA ? "a" : "b").get();
+        }
+
+        refresh(indexName);
+        BytesReference pitId = openPointInTime(new String[] { alias }, TimeValue.timeValueMinutes(1)).getPointInTimeId();
+
+        try {
+            int finalCountTagA = countTagA;
+            assertResponse(
+                prepareSearch().setPointInTime(new PointInTimeBuilder(pitId).setKeepAlive(TimeValue.timeValueMinutes(1)))
+                    .setSize(0)
+                    .setQuery(new MatchAllQueryBuilder()),
+                resp1 -> {
+                    assertThat(resp1.pointInTimeId(), equalTo(pitId));
+                    assertHitCount(resp1, finalCountTagA);
+                }
+            );
+        } finally {
+            closePointInTime(pitId);
+        }
+    }
+
     public void testMultipleIndices() {
         int numIndices = randomIntBetween(1, 5);
         for (int i = 1; i <= numIndices; i++) {

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java

@@ -391,10 +391,14 @@ private static ShardSearchRequest tryRewriteWithUpdatedSortValue(
         return request;
     }
 
-    private static boolean isPartOfPIT(SearchRequest request, ShardSearchContextId contextId) {
+    private static boolean isPartOfPIT(
+        SearchRequest request,
+        ShardSearchContextId contextId,
+        NamedWriteableRegistry namedWriteableRegistry
+    ) {
         final PointInTimeBuilder pointInTimeBuilder = request.pointInTimeBuilder();
         if (pointInTimeBuilder != null) {
-            return request.pointInTimeBuilder().getSearchContextId(null).contains(contextId);
+            return request.pointInTimeBuilder().getSearchContextId(namedWriteableRegistry).contains(contextId);
         } else {
             return false;
         }
@@ -546,7 +550,8 @@ private void onNodeQueryFailure(Exception e, NodeQueryRequest request, CanMatchP
     static void registerNodeSearchAction(
         SearchTransportService searchTransportService,
         SearchService searchService,
-        SearchPhaseController searchPhaseController
+        SearchPhaseController searchPhaseController,
+        NamedWriteableRegistry namedWriteableRegistry
     ) {
         var transportService = searchTransportService.transportService();
         var threadPool = transportService.getThreadPool();
@@ -576,7 +581,8 @@ static void registerNodeSearchAction(
                     request,
                     cancellableTask,
                     channel,
-                    dependencies
+                    dependencies,
+                    namedWriteableRegistry
                 );
                 // TODO: log activating or otherwise limiting parallelism might be helpful here
                 for (int i = 0; i < workers; i++) {
@@ -587,12 +593,17 @@ static void registerNodeSearchAction(
         TransportActionProxy.registerProxyAction(transportService, NODE_SEARCH_ACTION_NAME, true, NodeQueryResponse::new);
     }
 
-    private static void releaseLocalContext(SearchService searchService, NodeQueryRequest request, SearchPhaseResult result) {
+    private static void releaseLocalContext(
+        SearchService searchService,
+        NodeQueryRequest request,
+        SearchPhaseResult result,
+        NamedWriteableRegistry namedWriteableRegistry
+    ) {
         var phaseResult = result.queryResult() != null ? result.queryResult() : result.rankFeatureResult();
         if (phaseResult != null
             && phaseResult.hasSearchContext()
             && request.searchRequest.scroll() == null
-            && isPartOfPIT(request.searchRequest, phaseResult.getContextId()) == false) {
+            && isPartOfPIT(request.searchRequest, phaseResult.getContextId(), namedWriteableRegistry) == false) {
             searchService.freeReaderContext(phaseResult.getContextId());
         }
     }
@@ -736,13 +747,15 @@ private static final class QueryPerNodeState {
         private final CountDown countDown;
         private final TransportChannel channel;
         private volatile BottomSortValuesCollector bottomSortCollector;
+        private final NamedWriteableRegistry namedWriteableRegistry;
 
         private QueryPerNodeState(
             QueryPhaseResultConsumer queryPhaseResultConsumer,
             NodeQueryRequest searchRequest,
             CancellableTask task,
             TransportChannel channel,
-            Dependencies dependencies
+            Dependencies dependencies,
+            NamedWriteableRegistry namedWriteableRegistry
         ) {
             this.queryPhaseResultConsumer = queryPhaseResultConsumer;
             this.searchRequest = searchRequest;
@@ -752,6 +765,7 @@ private QueryPerNodeState(
             this.countDown = new CountDown(queryPhaseResultConsumer.getNumShards());
             this.channel = channel;
             this.dependencies = dependencies;
+            this.namedWriteableRegistry = namedWriteableRegistry;
         }
 
         void onShardDone() {
@@ -762,7 +776,7 @@ void onShardDone() {
             try (queryPhaseResultConsumer) {
                 var failure = queryPhaseResultConsumer.failure.get();
                 if (failure != null) {
-                    handleMergeFailure(failure, channelListener);
+                    handleMergeFailure(failure, channelListener, namedWriteableRegistry);
                     return;
                 }
                 final QueryPhaseResultConsumer.MergeResult mergeResult;
@@ -772,7 +786,7 @@ void onShardDone() {
                         EMPTY_PARTIAL_MERGE_RESULT
                     );
                 } catch (Exception e) {
-                    handleMergeFailure(e, channelListener);
+                    handleMergeFailure(e, channelListener, namedWriteableRegistry);
                     return;
                 }
                 // translate shard indices to those on the coordinator so that it can interpret the merge result without adjustments,
@@ -799,7 +813,7 @@ void onShardDone() {
                             && q.hasSuggestHits() == false
                             && q.getRankShardResult() == null
                             && searchRequest.searchRequest.scroll() == null
-                            && isPartOfPIT(searchRequest.searchRequest, q.getContextId()) == false) {
+                            && isPartOfPIT(searchRequest.searchRequest, q.getContextId(), namedWriteableRegistry) == false) {
                             if (dependencies.searchService.freeReaderContext(q.getContextId())) {
                                 q.clearContextId();
                             }
@@ -816,9 +830,20 @@ && isPartOfPIT(searchRequest.searchRequest, q.getContextId()) == false) {
             }
         }
 
-        private void handleMergeFailure(Exception e, ChannelActionListener<TransportResponse> channelListener) {
+        private void handleMergeFailure(
+            Exception e,
+            ChannelActionListener<TransportResponse> channelListener,
+            NamedWriteableRegistry namedWriteableRegistry
+        ) {
             queryPhaseResultConsumer.getSuccessfulResults()
-                .forEach(searchPhaseResult -> releaseLocalContext(dependencies.searchService, searchRequest, searchPhaseResult));
+                .forEach(
+                    searchPhaseResult -> releaseLocalContext(
+                        dependencies.searchService,
+                        searchRequest,
+                        searchPhaseResult,
+                        namedWriteableRegistry
+                    )
+                );
             channelListener.onFailure(e);
         }
 

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/TransportSearchAction.java

@@ -187,7 +187,12 @@ public TransportSearchAction(
         this.searchTransportService = searchTransportService;
         this.remoteClusterService = searchTransportService.getRemoteClusterService();
         SearchTransportService.registerRequestHandler(transportService, searchService);
-        SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.registerNodeSearchAction(searchTransportService, searchService, searchPhaseController);
+        SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.registerNodeSearchAction(
+            searchTransportService,
+            searchService,
+            searchPhaseController,
+            namedWriteableRegistry
+        );
         this.clusterService = clusterService;
         this.transportService = transportService;
         this.searchService = searchService;