RFR: 8373448: jpackage: StackOverflowError when processing a very long argument

[Alexander Matveev]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 04:44:55 GMT, Alexey Semenyuk <asemenyuk at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Replace reluctant quantifier `*?` with the possessive alternative (`*+`) and get rid of back-references from the regexp tokenizing a value of the "--arguments" option into a string array to fix the catastrophic backtracking resulting in a stack overflow.
> 
> Old regexp: `(?:(?:(["'])(?:\\\1|.)*?(?:\1|$))|(?:\["'\s]|[^\s]))++`
> 
> New regexp `(?:(?:(?:'(?:\'|[^'])*+(?:'|$))|(?:"(?:\"|[^"])*+(?:"|$)))|(?:\["'\s]|\S))++`
> 
> Add test cases that pass both the old and the new variants of the regexp, except for the last test case that causes a stack overflow with the old regexp.
> 
> The initial intention was to replace the regexp with the tokenizer function. It was abandoned in favor of reworking the regexp to minimize the risk of regressions.

src/jdk.jpackage/share/classes/jdk/jpackage/internal/cli/StandardOption.java line 744:

> 742: 
> 743:         static {
> 744:             System.out.println("OLD: " + pattern);

Why we need to print old and new pattern? Looks like debug code was not removed.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29104#discussion_r2674340410