On Tue, 11 May 2021 13:10:30 GMT, Aleksei Voitylov <avoity...@openjdk.org> 
wrote:

> Please review this PR which fixes the deadlock in ClassLoader between the two 
> lock objects - a lock object associated with the class being loaded, and the 
> ClassLoader.loadedLibraryNames hash map, locked during the native library 
> load operation.
> 
> Problem being fixed:
> 
> The initial reproducer demonstrated a deadlock between the JarFile/ZipFile 
> and the hash map. That deadlock exists even when the ZipFile/JarFile lock is 
> removed because there's another lock object in the class loader, associated 
> with the name of the class being loaded. Such objects are stored in 
> ClassLoader.parallelLockMap. The deadlock occurs when JNI_OnLoad() loads 
> exactly the same class, whose signature is being verified in another thread.
> 
> Proposed fix:
> 
> The proposed patch suggests to get rid of locking loadedLibraryNames hash map 
> and synchronize on each entry name, as it's done with class names in see 
> ClassLoader.getClassLoadingLock(name) method.
> 
> The patch introduces nativeLibraryLockMap which holds the lock objects for 
> each library name, and the getNativeLibraryLock() private method is used to 
> lazily initialize the corresponding lock object. nativeLibraryContext was 
> changed to ThreadLocal, so that in any concurrent thread it would have a 
> NativeLibrary object on top of the stack, that's being currently 
> loaded/unloaded in that thread. nativeLibraryLockMap accumulates the names of 
> all native libraries loaded - in line with class loading code, it is not 
> explicitly cleared.
> 
> Testing:  jtreg and jck testing with no regressions. A new regression test 
> was developed.

src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/loader/NativeLibraries.java line 478:

> 476: 
> 477:     // thread local native libraries stack
> 478:     private static final ThreadLocal<Deque<NativeLibraryImpl>> 
> nativeLibraryThreadContext =

I would prefer not see thread locals introduced here. We've put a lot of effort 
into recent releases to eliminate the use of TLs from java.base.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3976

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