Request for approval for CR 7049079 - NTSYSTEM CLASS IS LEAKING 3 WINDOWS TOKENS

[Edvard Wendelin]

Approved! 

Cheers,
Edvard

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On 5 sep 2011, at 12:43, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:

> This is a forward port of a fix already in jdk5 & jdk6.
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> NTSystem() obtains a native Token instance for each constructor call.
> This is unnecessary and Token instances should only be requested when
> called for, i.e. at getImpersonationToken() time.
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> No auto testcase but fix has been verified though use of the MS handle
> tool and a simple java testcase.
> 
> Jdk 8 code review thread : http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2011-September/003736.html
> 
> Fix has just gone into jdk8 also and changeset will be identical to that :
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl-gate/jdk/rev/946e3b786d2d
> 
> regards,
> Sean.
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