RFR: 8320267: WebView crashes on macOS 11 with WebKit 616.1

Tue Nov 28 20:59:34 UTC 2023

On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:00:04 GMT, Kevin Rushforth <kcr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> With the help of debug build which pinpointed the crash, I found the commit in upstream WebKit core that caused the crash. That commit was subsequently reverted not long after it was initially committed. This reverted commit wasn't in the stabilization branch we picked up for WebKit 616.1. It will be in the next WebKit update, but we need a fix sooner than that.
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> The proposed fix is to cherry-pick the commit that reverts the problematic commit: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/d6d61bb1b76bbac53b403d217428e65a12c4e2e3
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> I've done an initial sanity test run on all platforms.

@jperedadnr Would you be able to test this? My testing shows that it fixes the problem, but confirmation would be helpful.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1297#issuecomment-1830494923