Snapshot/Restore: fix NPE while handling null failure reasons #26127
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
The failure reasons for snapshot shard failures might not be propagated properly if the master node changes after errors were reported by other data nodes, which causes them to be stored as null in snapshot files. This commits adds a workaround for reading such snapshot files where this information might not have been preserved and makes sure that the reason is not null if it gets cluster state from another master. This is a partial backport of #25941 to 5.6.
Closes #25878