ClassLoader.loadLibrary NullPointerException Regression in 8u242

[Andrew Haley]

On 3/4/20 10:33 AM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 3/4/20 11:32 AM, Anton Kozlov wrote:
>> On 04.03.2020 13:16, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>>> Therefore, I suggest we revert 8231584 in its entirety from 8u
>>> (and 11u?). We can do this reversal for April releases, if we act
>>> soon.
>>
>> Agree. Choosing between finding for a proper forward-fix now, leaving as is and reverting, later seems most appropriate.
>> I'll file an jira issue and label it as jdk8u-critical-request.
>> I'm not going to do a webrev for simple backport.
>
> Let's see if 8u/11u maintainers agree with this course of action first.

The deadlock must be pretty rare, right? No-one noticed it for a long
time.

However, the technique for patching "java.library.path" seems to be
quite widespread: I've seen it mentioned in several question & answer
web sites.

So, for that reason, I think it would be more useful for us to revert
8231584 now.

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