NullPointerException in Request.notifyAttributeAssigned with RemoteIpValve on Tomcat 9
Issue
- We see the following error for some requests when using the RemoteIpValve on Tomcat 9:
SEVERE [http-nio-20000-exec-10] org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service Error processing request
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.notifyAttributeAssigned(Request.java:1525)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.setAttribute(Request.java:1511)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve.invoke(RemoteIpValve.java:665)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:651)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:414)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:754)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1376)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Environment
- JBoss Enterprise Web Server (JWS) 5.0.x
- Tomcat 9.0.7
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