SPARK-2034. KafkaInputDStream doesn't close resources and may prevent JVM shutdown

Tobias noted today on the mailing list:

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I am trying to use Spark Streaming with Kafka, which works like a
charm – except for shutdown. When I run my program with "sbt
run-main", sbt will never exit, because there are two non-daemon
threads left that don't die.
I created a minimal example at
<https://gist.github.com/tgpfeiffer/b1e765064e983449c6b6#file-kafkadoesntshutdown-scala>.
It starts a StreamingContext and does nothing more than connecting to
a Kafka server and printing what it receives. Using the `future
Unknown macro: { ... }
` construct, I shut down the StreamingContext after some seconds and
then print the difference between the threads at start time and at end
time. The output can be found at
<https://gist.github.com/tgpfeiffer/b1e765064e983449c6b6#file-output1>.
There are a number of threads remaining that will prevent sbt from
exiting.
When I replace `KafkaUtils.createStream(...)` with a call that does
exactly the same, except that it calls `consumerConnector.shutdown()`
in `KafkaReceiver.onStop()` (which it should, IMO), the output is as
shown at <https://gist.github.com/tgpfeiffer/b1e765064e983449c6b6#file-output2>.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here and why the program
doesn't shut down properly? The behavior is the same with both kafka
0.8.0 and 0.8.1.1, by the way.

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Something similar was noted last year:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spark-dev/201309.mbox/%3C1380220041.2428.YahooMailNeo@web160804.mail.bf1.yahoo.com%3E

KafkaInputDStream doesn't close `ConsumerConnector` in `onStop()`, and does not close the `Executor` it creates. The latter leaves non-daemon threads and can prevent the JVM from shutting down even if streaming is closed properly.
minor - but to avoid a name collision with Spark's own `Executor` we usually try call variables like this `threadPool`.