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

[Alan Bateman]

On 10/07/2017 09:02, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> 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?
>
There has been discussion about this on other mailing lists too. The 
practical thing seems to be get the fix into JDK 10 and once it has 
baked then request a backport for jdk8u-dev. You can create a backport 
issue in JIRA for 9-pool so that it won't be forgotten.

-Alan.