Possibility of backporting fix for JDK-6986863

[Philip Race]

I think it would be good to backport and I suspect Sergey may well do so ..
although generally the place to ask about backports to older releases is 
one of
the update release mailing lists.

phil.

On 10/13/21 11:02 AM, Harald Kuhr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just signed up for the client-libs-dev mailing list, so bear with me… 😀
>
> I’m the author of TwelveMonkeys ImageIO (
> https://github.com/haraldk/TwelveMonkeys) and ever so often users of my
> library run into https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6986863
> (ProfileDeferralMgr throwing ConcurrentModificationException) or one of its
> various incarnations/duplicates. See for example
> https://github.com/haraldk/TwelveMonkeys/issues/631 or #402
>
> I am very happy to see this bug finally being fixed in Java 17!
>
> However, I wonder what it would take to backport Sergey’s fix (
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/64a150c5) to OpenJDK 11 (or even 8)
> as it’s hard to create a reliable workaround (from a library viewpoint)?
>
> I’m fairly familiar with this part of the JDK code base and have looked
> through the fix commit and believe it should be fairly straightforward to
> apply the changes to JDK 11 and 8 (there haven’t been many changes to this
> part of the code since Java 8 if I remember correctly). I’m currently not a
> contributor, but I’m trying to sign the necessary OCA and may provide a
> patch in the future.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> —
> Harald K