RFR 7176784: Windows authentication not working on some computers

Michael McMahon michael.x.mcmahon at oracle.com
Mon Jun 25 06:02:27 PDT 2012


Looks fine.

- Michael

On 25/06/12 11:49, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> This is a trivial (2 line) change to increase the size of a native 
> buffer being passed to InitializeSecurityContext. We have seen reports 
> of InitializeSecurityContext failing with SEC_E_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY, 
> given the needed buffer size depends on Windows domain size, DNS 
> domain name, client computer name size, server computer size, user 
> name size, etc.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/7176784/webrev.00/webrev/
>
> This fix is deliberately conservative as I would like to get it into 
> 7u6 also. It may be that this area could do with some refactoring and 
> better error checking in the future, but I'd like to keep this change 
> as is to address the specific issue.
>
> -Chris.




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