Hi Thomas, On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 15:55 +0200, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > Ping... Anyone? > > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stu...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > please take a look at this proposed fix for a theoretical race in > > the jdwp library. > > > > Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8181419 > > webrev: > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stuefe/webrevs/8181419-Race-in-jdwp-invoker-handling-may-lead-to-crashes-or-invalid-results/webrev.00/webrev/ > > > > In short, this is an addition to Severin's fix to the jdwp invoke > > handling (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8153711). > > > > We have a potential race condition where the delayed cleanup of the > > saved returnvalue object reference and the exception reference > > (released in deletePotentiallySavedGlobalRefs() ) may be overtaken > > by a new request which populates the thread request structure anew. > > If this happens, deletePotentiallySavedGlobalRefs() may actually > > release the return value / exception references of the follow up > > request, if that one was already processed. > > > > The solution I choose is safe and conservative. We still release > > both references, but use the locally saved JNI references. We just > > avoid accessing the thread local request structure after it has > > been cleared for reuse. This keeps timing and locking behaviour > > unchanged. > > > > I am currently running jtreg tests for com/sun/jdi on AIX and > > Linux.
The fix makes sense to me. Looks good! I'm not an OpenJDK Reviewer. Cheers, Severin
