RFR: 8371128: NullPointerException occurs due to double cleanup of SwingNode [v2]

Kevin Rushforth kcr at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 4 17:21:03 UTC 2025


On Tue, 4 Nov 2025 17:13:25 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> It is seen that when we close the SwingNode window while we have registered a WINDOW_HIDDEN listener, it will cause a NPE 
>> This is because WINDOW_HIDDEN listener called `SwingNode.overrideNativeWindowHandle` to provide a native FX window handle to AWT/Swing via JNI code, which gives provision to AWT/Swing code in sun/swing/JLightweightFrame.java#overrideNativeWindowHandle to handle the window closing
>> 
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/e4aed95cac343f1339b9bc87721561bdc4c2f5ad/src/java.desktop/share/classes/sun/swing/JLightweightFrame.java#L527-L534
>> 
>> But if window is closed, then the node is removed from scene and `SwingNode.disposeLwFrame` is called which nulls "lwFrame" which is the handle for JLightweightFrame AWT frame, so when JNI code 
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/c77c2335856a967907aaacc9546f44943c069add/modules/javafx.graphics/src/main/native-prism/SwingInterop.c#L47
>> 
>> tries to call JLightweightFrame, it crashes.
>> Fix is made to check for `lwFrame `before `overrideNativeWindowHandle ` is called inside `SwingNodeHelper.runOnEDT`. 
>> This is common practice employed inside `SwingNodeHelper.runOnEDT` to check for lwFrame to be not null
>
> Prasanta Sadhukhan has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Test message

Marked as reviewed by kcr (Lead).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1960#pullrequestreview-3417735725


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