We do not use CDH stack as such but installed Impala, Sentry standalone.
Hadoop core-site.xml has CompositeGroupsMapping with ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping and LdapGroupsMapping. Impala is configured with Apache Sentry and LDAP.
Any roles assigned to LDAP Groups does not reflect for the user but roles assigned to Unix Groups do reflect.
Apache Sentry 2.1.0-cdh6.1.0