[processor/tailsampling] Duplicate policy names should yield an error (…

…#27017)

Fixes #27016

Signed-off-by: Juraci Paixão Kröhling <[email protected]>

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Signed-off-by: Juraci Paixão Kröhling <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Curtis Robert <[email protected]>

.chloggen/27016-duplicate-policy-names.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: 'bug_fix'
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. filelogreceiver)
+component: processor/tailsampling
+
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Prevent the tail-sampling processor from accepting duplicate policy names
+
+# Mandatory: One or more tracking issues related to the change. You can use the PR number here if no issue exists.
+issues: [27016]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
+
+# If your change doesn't affect end users or the exported elements of any package,
+# you should instead start your pull request title with [chore] or use the "Skip Changelog" label.
+# Optional: The change log or logs in which this entry should be included.
+# e.g. '[user]' or '[user, api]'
+# Include 'user' if the change is relevant to end users.
+# Include 'api' if there is a change to a library API.
+# Default: '[user]'
+change_logs: [user]

processor/tailsamplingprocessor/processor.go

@@ -72,15 +72,16 @@ func newTracesProcessor(ctx context.Context, settings component.TelemetrySetting
  return nil, component.ErrNilNextConsumer
  }
 
- numDecisionBatches := math.Max(1, cfg.DecisionWait.Seconds())
- inBatcher, err := idbatcher.New(uint64(numDecisionBatches), cfg.ExpectedNewTracesPerSec, uint64(2*runtime.NumCPU()))
- if err != nil {
- return nil, err
- }
-
+ policyNames := map[string]bool{}
  policies := make([]*policy, len(cfg.PolicyCfgs))
  for i := range cfg.PolicyCfgs {
  policyCfg := &cfg.PolicyCfgs[i]
+
+ if policyNames[policyCfg.Name] {
+ return nil, fmt.Errorf("duplicate policy name %q", policyCfg.Name)
+ }
+ policyNames[policyCfg.Name] = true
+
  policyCtx, err := tag.New(ctx, tag.Upsert(tagPolicyKey, policyCfg.Name), tag.Upsert(tagSourceFormat, sourceFormat))
  if err != nil {
  return nil, err
@@ -97,6 +98,14 @@ func newTracesProcessor(ctx context.Context, settings component.TelemetrySetting
  policies[i] = p
  }
 
+ // this will start a goroutine in the background, so we run it only if everything went
+ // well in creating the policies
+ numDecisionBatches := math.Max(1, cfg.DecisionWait.Seconds())
+ inBatcher, err := idbatcher.New(uint64(numDecisionBatches), cfg.ExpectedNewTracesPerSec, uint64(2*runtime.NumCPU()))
+ if err != nil {
+ return nil, err
+ }
+
  tsp := &tailSamplingSpanProcessor{
  ctx: ctx,
  nextConsumer: nextConsumer,

processor/tailsamplingprocessor/processor_test.go

@@ -851,6 +851,29 @@ func TestPolicyLoggerAddsPolicyName(t *testing.T) {
  assert.Equal(t, AlwaysSample, logs.All()[0].ContextMap()["policy"])
 }
 
+func TestDuplicatePolicyName(t *testing.T) {
+ // prepare
+ set := componenttest.NewNopTelemetrySettings()
+ msp := new(consumertest.TracesSink)
+
+ alwaysSample := sharedPolicyCfg{
+ Name: "always_sample",
+ Type: AlwaysSample,
+ }
+
+ _, err := newTracesProcessor(context.Background(), set, msp, Config{
+ DecisionWait: 500 * time.Millisecond,
+ NumTraces: uint64(50000),
+ PolicyCfgs: []PolicyCfg{
+ {sharedPolicyCfg: alwaysSample},
+ {sharedPolicyCfg: alwaysSample},
+ },
+ })
+
+ // verify
+ assert.Equal(t, err, errors.New(`duplicate policy name "always_sample"`))
+}
+
 func collectSpanIds(trace ptrace.Traces) []pcommon.SpanID {
  var spanIDs []pcommon.SpanID