[7u12] Approval request for 8000486: REGRESSION: Three java2d tests fail since jdk8b58 on Windows 7 with NullPointerException

[Oleg Pekhovskiy]

Hi,

requesting approval to push for CR:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8000492

which is the backport of
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8000486

Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bagiras/7u12/8000492.1/
Review Thread: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2012-October/003688.html
Reviewers: Jim Graham, Artem Ananiev

Thanks,
Oleg