[9] RFA: 8181419: Race in jdwp invoker handling may lead to crashes or invalid results

[Severin Gehwolf]

Hi Dan,

On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 20:57 -0600, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
> Severin,
> 
> OpenJDK9 has reached the Release Candidate phase. I attached the
> most recent e-mail on that topic. At this point in the release,
> only _critical_ P1 bugs can be fixed.

Thanks! I was afraid of that. What's the process of getting this patch
backported to JDK 8u? Can JDK 9 be skipped until there is an JDK 9u
project or does it have to wait until the fix is in 9?

Thanks,
Severin

> On 7/7/17 7:42 AM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Could somebody please approve 8181419 for JDK 9. As mentioned in the
> > bug, this is a stability improvement on 8153711, which is already in 9.
> > The patch for JDK 10 applies cleanly to JDK 9 and it should be fairly
> > low risk.
> > 
> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8181419
> > 
> > I've added a comment as to why I believe this bug should go into 9. It
> > also has the 'jdk9-fix-request' label.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Severin
> > 
> 
>