RFR: JDK-8298852: Use of uninitialized memory in MetadataFactory::free_metadata

[Justin King]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:08:19 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I saw you changed this but didn't realize why so didn't carry your change forward. Thanks for fixing this.
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> I would like it backported to JDK 20 since that change was incomplete without this. I think you can do that with slash backport jdk20 when this is reviewed.
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> I also think this is a trivial fix (not requiring 24 hrs).

Okay, will backport.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11688