Rest API report netty error on returning large byte[]

[BigFatDog]

Description

My Rest api is simple: to return byte[]:

    @GET
    @Path("{id}")
    @NoCache
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM)
    public byte[] getPacket(@PathParam("id") Long id) {
            byte[] data =..... // fetch from somewhere
           // byte length is 49193
           return data;
   }

When I run, I got the following error (full error log is in the bottom of this issue):

Caused by: io.netty.util.IllegalReferenceCountException: refCnt: 0, decrement: 1

Expected behavior

Rest API return value without error

My investigation

A solution with spring is to increase the codec memory (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65248119/debugging-illegalreferencecountexception-refcnt-0-decrement-1):

spring
  codec:
    max-in-memory-size: 10MB

Quarkus Version

1.13.2.Final
Java 8

Full Error Log

2021-06-01 13:56:27,334 INFO [org.apa.zoo.ClientCnxn] (ReadOnlyZKClient-172.16.0.7:2181,172.16.0.14:2181,172.16.0.13:2181@0x0cfacace-EventThread) EventThread shut down for session: 0x2000000b12c1d3a

2021-06-01 13:56:27,426 WARN [io.net.cha.ChannelOutboundBuffer] (vert.x-eventloop-thread-1) Failed to mark a promise as success because it has failed already: DefaultChannelPromise@6db0c3a2(failure: io.netty.handler.codec.EncoderException: io.netty.util.IllegalReferenceCountException: refCnt: 0, decrement: 1), unnotified cause:: io.netty.handler.codec.EncoderException: io.netty.util.IllegalReferenceCountException: refCnt: 0, decrement: 1

at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageEncoder.write(MessageToMessageEncoder.java:104)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:717)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:709)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:792)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:702)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:697)

at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageEncoder.writePromiseCombiner(MessageToMessageEncoder.java:137)

at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageEncoder.write(MessageToMessageEncoder.java:117)

at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageCodec.write(MessageToMessageCodec.java:116)

at io.vertx.core.http.impl.HttpChunkContentCompressor.write(HttpChunkContentCompressor.java:38)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:717)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:709)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:792)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:702)

at io.netty.handler.stream.ChunkedWriteHandler.doFlush(ChunkedWriteHandler.java:300)

at io.netty.handler.stream.ChunkedWriteHandler.flush(ChunkedWriteHandler.java:132)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeFlush0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:750)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:742)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.flush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:728)

at io.netty.channel.ChannelDuplexHandler.flush(ChannelDuplexHandler.java:127)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeFlush0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:750)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWriteAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:765)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:790)

at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:758)

at io.vertx.core.net.impl.ConnectionBase.write(ConnectionBase.java:124)

at io.vertx.core.net.impl.ConnectionBase.lambda$queueForWrite$2(ConnectionBase.java:215)

at io.netty.util.concurrent.AbstractEventExecutor.safeExecute(AbstractEventExecutor.java:164)

at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor.runAllTasks(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:472)

at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:500)

at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:989)

at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74)

at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30)

at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

Caused by: io.netty.util.IllegalReferenceCountException: refCnt: 0, decrement: 1

at io.netty.util.internal.ReferenceCountUpdater.toLiveRealRefCnt(ReferenceCountUpdater.java:74)

at io.netty.util.internal.ReferenceCountUpdater.release(ReferenceCountUpdater.java:138)

at io.netty.buffer.AbstractReferenceCountedByteBuf.release(AbstractReferenceCountedByteBuf.java:100)

at io.vertx.core.http.impl.AssembledHttpResponse.release(AssembledHttpResponse.java:159)

at io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.release(ReferenceCountUtil.java:88)

at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageEncoder.write(MessageToMessageEncoder.java:91)

... 32 more

[BigFatDog]

Duplicate of #14695