(JAXP) RFR: 8173111: Excessive recursion in EventFilterSupport when filtering over large number of XML events can cause StackOverflow

[Lance Andersen]

Hi Daniel,

The changes look fine.

Did you give any consideration to using assertFalse in the smokeTest  at line 73?

Probably want to consider a back port at some point to 8u when time permits.

Best
Lance
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Daniel Fuchs <daniel.fuchs at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please find below a fix for:
> 
> 8173111: Excessive recursion in EventFilterSupport when filtering
>         over large number of XML events can cause StackOverflow
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173111
> 
> The fix is almost trivial: it replaces a recursion by a loop in
> two places.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8173111/webrev.00/
> 
> The test will fail without the fix (at least on my machine)
> and pass with it (on my machine and in our test system).
> 
> best regards,
> 
> -- daniel

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