[7u-dev] request for approval 8000456, Add programmatic deadlock detection in SSLEngineDeadlock

[Seán Coffey]

review thread : 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2013-June/007818.html

Approved for jdk7u-dev.

regards,
Sean.

On 19/06/2013 02:59, Xuelei Fan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a request to backport a JDK 8 fix into JDK 7u-dev:
>      8000456: Add programmatic deadlock detection in SSLEngineDeadlock
>
> The fix has already been pushed to JDK 8:
>      http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/2d9da733014f
>
> The code changes for jdk7u are identical to the ones in jdk8. The fix
> only makes update in regression test case. It is simple and no expected
> risks.
>
> This fix is an effort to make the regression test more stable. The test
> case SSLEngineDeadlock.java is used to detect the deadlock in SSLEngine.
>   However, the result depends on time out.  It is hard to tell
> whether the timeout is caused by deadlock or heavy loaded systems.
>
> In this update, programmatic deadlock detection is introduced. This
> update should make it a little easy to identify deadlock from various
> timeout causes.
>
> Thanks,
> Xuelei