Backport request for JDK-8034249

[Gleb Smirnov]

Hi Serguei,

Thanks for getting back to me. If I correctly understand what you mean by "What
tool is it for?", then the tool is an APM called Plumbr [1]. We use JVMTI to
capture some evidence required for root cause analysis. It's a shame when this
leads to JVM crashing.

Please correct me if you asked for something different.

Thank you.

Kind Regards,
Gleb Smirnov

[1] https://plumbr.eu/how-plumbr-works


On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 06:18 serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com
<serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Gleb,
>
> I do not see big problems to backport  it to the jdk8 yet.
> But let me check the jdk8 repository first.
> What tool is it for?
> Just better to have this info for backport justification.
>
> Thanks,
> Serguei
>
>
> On 1/12/17 10:40, Gleb Smirnov wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have a java agent that uses JVMTI's GetStackTrace.
> > As can be seen in [1], there is an issue that may cause
> > the JVM to crash when it is invoked. The issue was fixed
> > for jdk9 in 2014, but as far as I can tell, it was not
> > backported to jdk8. We have quite a few customer JVMs
> > crashing because of this.
> >
> > Is there any particular reason for not backporting?
> > If not, would anyone be so kind as to do it? Can I
> > help the effort in any way?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Gleb Smirnov
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8034249
>