[jdk17] RFR: 8269594: assert(_handle_mark_nesting > 1) failed: memory leak: allocating handle outside HandleMark

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:02:53 GMT, Zhengyu Gu <zgu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I would like to fix this assertion in jdk17. It was caught in Shenandoah nightly test and hard to reproduce, but fix is simple and low risk.

This looks good.  I think it's worth fixing because the Handles could leak without this assert in production, and that could be really hard to diagnose.

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Marked as reviewed by coleenp (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/pull/173