RFR: 8284490: Remove finalizer method in java.security.jgss [v2]

[Valerie Peng]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 15:48:50 GMT, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan <xuelei at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.security.jgss/share/classes/sun/security/jgss/wrapper/GSSCredElement.java line 74:
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>>> 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.
>
> Yes.  I'm working on an update, and more code changes (including immutable objects) may be placed.  Thank you @dfuch and @RogerRiggs for the good catch.  I totally forgot about the object reference problems while using Cleaner.

Hmm, the earlier JCE change would also needs to be updated as it calls a cleanup method on the to-be-cleaned object.

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