[8u] RFA 8010500: [parfait] Possible null pointer dereference at hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/loopnode.hpp

Aleksey Shipilev shade at redhat.com
Mon Sep 16 10:42:32 UTC 2019


On 9/13/19 10:26 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 9/10/19 6:09 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>> I would like to request *approval* for this 8u backport:
>>   https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/4d686766ac23
>>
>> The issue itself is Confidential, and so our usual approval process does not work. The issue cannot
>> be opened, because it contains confidential information, alas.
> 
> Perhaps we should consider creating public clones of confidential bugs.
> Of course we wouldn't be able to link the original bug to our clone.

Not sure about that. The changesets are clearly visible, and we have to keep them searchable.
Separate bug IDs would make it harder. I think these cases are exceptional enough for us not to
care. It usually possible to ask Oracle folks to open the issue for our usual processes to work.

-- 
Thanks,
-Aleksey



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