[ping] Re: RFR 8145919: sun/management/jmxremote/bootstrap/RmiSslBootstrapTest failed with Connection failed for no credentials (Round 2)

[Jaroslav Bachorik]

On 11.2.2016 11:39, Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
> Please, review the following test change
>
> Issue : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8145919
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8145919/webrev.02
>
> The previous attempt to fix this problem was focused on the fact that
> the test tend to fail on ARM64 platforms. This is no more true, the
> failure is reproducible on various platforms if using fastdebug build.
>
> It turns out that the test is setting up SSL in a way that only RC4
> cipher suites are to be used (the test keys are generated by this algo).
> These cipher suites, however, has been disabled (JDK-8076221).
>
> By all means the test should be failing since the RC4 test suites were
> excluded. For some reason it started failing intermittently instead. I
> will leave the exercise of figuring out why to someone with a thorough
> expertise in SSL handshake.
>
> The fix is straightforward - create new keys (and keystore and
> truststore) using a supported cipher suite. I opted for the default one
> (TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) and update the ssl properties for
> the test to request this cipher suite. After this change the test is
> passing regularly (tried running it 200 times in a loop - without any
> failure).
>
> Thanks,
>
> -JB-