Percona Server release 11.0 which we announced few days ago unfortunately was released with a bug introduced while implementing stripping comments in query cache which could cause server crash with certain types of queries if query cache is enabled. We have released Percona Server release 11.1 which includes a fix for this issue. If you can’t perform upgrade promptly you can disable query cache until you can do this.
We’re sorry for shipping release with such bug.
The issue with this bug in more details is as follows:
MySQL Query Cache works by checking incoming queries if they may be found in query cache – this is done by performing simple check if query is starting from SEL or comment. After Query is parsed and executed MySQL stores results for SELECT queries in Query Cache. There are cases when queries will not be considered as cachable query during first check, however result for them will be stored in the query cache. This rare case was not handled properly in the new feature added and it was causing MySQL to crash.
The most typical case for queries causing issues would be queries starting with brackets and having space before select such as ( select * from t1 ) Queries starting with brackets are often used with UNION queries.
