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

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 13/09/2019 09:26, 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.
> 

I don't see how we could "clone" a bug we can't access.

We could create a replacement, but then, as Aleksey suggests, we'd have
the same thing under different bug IDs in different repositories.

I think it would be better to push Oracle to open up bugs where possible.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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