On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:49:14 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.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: dcd46501
Author:    Daniel Fuchs <[email protected]>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/dcd46501e6a25ac875d61bfbd412555b933ce34c
Stats:     645 lines in 9 files changed: 620 ins; 1 del; 24 mod

8294916: Cancelling a request must eventually cause its response body 
subscriber to be unregistered

Reviewed-by: michaelm, jpai

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

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