Fix possible data corruption after FileStorage is truncated to roll back a transaction
Multi-threaded IO support, which is new to ZODB 3.10, allows clients to read data (load & loadBefore) even after tpc_vote has started to write a new transaction to disk. This is done by using different 'file' objects. Issues start when a transaction is rolled back after data has been appended (using the writing file object). Truncating is not enough because the FilePool may have been used concurrently to read the end of the last transaction: file objects have their own read buffers which, in this case, may also contain the beginning of the aborted transaction. So a solution is to invalidate read buffers whenever they may contain wrong data. This patch does it on truncation, which happens rarely enough to not affect performance. We discovered this bug in the following conditions: - ZODB splitted in several FileStorage - many conflicts in the first committed DB, but always resolved - unresolved conflict in another DB If the transaction is replayed with success (no more conflict in the other DB), a subsequent load of the object that could be resolved in the first DB may, for example, return a wrong serial (tid of the aborted transaction) if the layout of the committed transaction matches that of the aborted one. The bug usually manifests with POSKeyError & CorruptedDataError exceptions in ZEO logs, for example while trying to resolve a conflict (and restarting the transaction does not help, causing Site Errors in Zope). But theorically, this could also cause silent corruption or unpickling errors at client side.
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