RFR: 8240521: Revert backport of 8231584: Deadlock with ClassLoader.findLibrary (was ClassLoader.loadLibrary NullPointerException Regression in 8u242)

[Andrew Hughes]

On 04/03/2020 18:15, Anton Kozlov wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04.03.2020 19:52, Andrew Hughes 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.
>>
>> A simple backport of what? If we're going to approve a critical fix, I'd
>> want to see a webrev of what is going to be committed.
> 
> Sorry, I meant "backout" instead of "backport". 
> Just in case, you may find the patch (just "hg backout 1d666f78532a) at:
> 
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~akozlov/8240521/webrev.00/
> 
> Thanks,
> Anton
> 

Ah right. Yes, this looks fine, I get the same thing from hg backout.

Flag the bug with jdk8u-critical-fix and I'll approve for 8u252. Once
approved, the commit should be to the jdk8u forest, not jdk8u-dev.

I'm not sure of the situation with 11. Are people reliant on this hack
there too?

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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