[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8288763: Pack200 extraction failure with invalid size

[Tyler Steele]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 23:03:33 GMT, Tyler Steele <tsteele at openjdk.org> wrote:

> While running some internal testing, a college has discovered a failure related to the Pack200 archive format on the zLinux platform. The problematic code was removed in the current repo by [JDK-8234596](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8234596), however that change was large, and required a CSR. I feel that it would be too risky and cumbersome to backport those changes to jdk11 (and ultimately jdk8 as well), so I'd like to propose this change as a new change to jdk11 rather than via the usual backport process.
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> ### Testing
> These changes have been run against the failing test on zLinux and the Tier 1 tests completed successfully.

Oh, of course! I was thinking of that as a 'backport thing', but I should have known that it was a wider requirement. Thanks for the head's up. I will add the 'JBS ceremony' :-)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/1163