RFR: 8284490: Remove finalizer method in java.security.jgss

[Daniel Fuchs]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 04:10:55 GMT, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan <xuelei at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review the update to remove finalizer method in the java.security.jgss module. It is one of the efforts to clean up the use of finalizer method in JDK.

src/java.security.jgss/share/classes/sun/security/jgss/wrapper/GSSCredElement.java line 74:

> 72:         name = srcName;
> 73: 
> 74:         Cleaner.create().register(this, this::dispose);

This will create a memory leak: `this` will never be garbage collected if it's referenced by the cleaner action.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8136