On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:55:16 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote:

>> When [JDK-8277969](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8277969) was 
>> implemented, a list of outstanding response subscribers was added to 
>> `HttpClientImpl`. A body subscriber is added to the list after being created 
>> and is removed from the list when it is completed, either successfully or 
>> exceptionally.
>> 
>> It appears that in the case where the subscription is cancelled before the 
>> subscriber is completed, the subscriber might remain registered in the list 
>> forever, or at least until the HttpClient gets garbage collected. This can 
>> be easily reproduced using streaming subscribers, such as 
>> BodySubscriber::ofInputStream. In the case where the input stream is closed 
>> without having read all the bytes, Subscription::cancel will be called. 
>> Whether the subscriber gets unregistered or not at that point becomes racy.
>> 
>> Indeed, the reactive stream specification doesn't guarantee whether 
>> onComplete or onError will be called or not after a subscriber cancels its 
>> subscription. Any cleanup that would have been performed by 
>> onComplete/onError might therefore need to be performed when the 
>> subscription is cancelled too.
>
> Daniel Fuchs has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains ten additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into inputstream-leak-8294916
>  - More review feedback
>  - Update copyright years
>  - Incorporated review feedback
>  - More cleanup to the test
>  - Minor cleanup to the test again
>  - Minor cleanup to the test
>  - Merge branch 'master' into inputstream-leak-8294916
>  - 8294916

Integrated. Thanks for all the reviews!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10659

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