RFR JDK-8185582, Update Zip implementation to use Cleaner, not finalizers

[Peter Levart]

On 09/29/17 22:34, mandy chung wrote:
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> On 9/27/17 2:31 AM, Peter Levart wrote:
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>> Up to a point where 'this' is dereferenced to obtain the 'zsRef' 
>> value (line 261), the Deflater instance is reachable. But after that, 
>> even ensureOpen() may be inlined and 'this' is not needed any more. 
>> After that point, obtaining zsRef.address() and calling setDictionaly 
>> on the obtained address may be racing with Cleaner thread invoking 
>> ZStreamRef.run():
> What about making the native setDictionary method as an instance 
> method (currently it's a static method) so that this object remains 
> strongly reachable until the method returns?
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> Mandy

This is a possibility too, yes. In general there might be other places 
where the same could be performed. It is equivalent to puting 
Reference.reachabilityFence(this) after the invocation of 
setDictionary() static native method. But this would only fix public 
setDictionary() instance method. There might be other public methods 
with similar problems. Synchronizing the ZStreamRef.run() method fixes 
all of them in one place.

Regards, Peter