RFR: 8278753: Runtime crashes with access violation during JNI_CreateJavaVM call

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:20:19 GMT, Yumin Qi <minqi at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review,
>   When jlink with --compress=2, zip is used to compress the files while doing copy. The user case failed to load zip.dll, since zip.dll is not set in PATH. This failure is after we get NULL from GetModuleHandle("zip.dll"), then do LoadLibrary("zip.dll") will have same result.
>   The fix is calling load_zip_library of ClassLoader first --- if zip library already loaded just return the cached handle for following usage, if not, load zip library and cached the handle.
> 
>   Tests: tier1,4,7 in test
>    Manually tested user case, and checked output of jimage list <modules> for jlinked files using --compress=2.
> 
> Thanks
> Yumin

Seems okay as long as there are no concerns from jimage folk about usage scenarios we may not be aware of.

Thanks,
David

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7206