RFR [9] 8156824: com.sun.jndi.ldap.pool.PoolCleaner should clear its context class loader

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Jul 28 13:46:32 UTC 2016


On 28/07/2016 14:22, Chris Hegarty wrote:

> Another issue where an internal platform thread is unnecessarily
> retaining a reference to its creating thread’s context class loader.
> In this case, it appears to be safe to use an InnocuousThread,
> which will have a null context class loader.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8156824/01/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156824
>
> It’s not clear to me why the construction was not always in a
> privileged block, maybe “modifyThread” was assumed. We now
> definitely need a privileged block as the context class loader is
> being set.
>
This looks good to me.

-Alan


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