On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 09:31:51 GMT, Vladimir Ivanov <vliva...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> `MethodHandle.asTypeCache` keeps a strong reference to adapted `MethodHandle` 
> and it can introduce a class loader leak through its `MethodType`.
> 
> Proposed fix introduces a 2-level cache (1 element each) where 1st level can 
> only contain `MethodHandle`s which are guaranteed to not introduce any 
> dependencies on new class loaders compared to the original `MethodHandle`. 
> 2nd level is backed by a `SoftReference` and is used as a backup when the 
> result of `MethodHandle.asType()` conversion can't populate the higher level 
> cache.  
> 
> The fix is based on [the 
> work](http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/MethodHandle.asTypeCacheLeak/)
>  made by Peter Levart @plevart back in 2015.
> 
> Testing: tier1 - tier6

Thanks for fixing this.  JEP 416 depends on this.

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/invoke/MethodHandle.java line 966:

> 964:     }
> 965: 
> 966:     private static boolean isSystemLoader(ClassLoader loader) {

These are builtin loaders.  This method may be better to rename to 
`isBuiltinLoader`.

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Marked as reviewed by mchung (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5246

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