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

[Severin Gehwolf]

Hi Alan,

On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 09:18 +0100, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for your help!

Any pointers as to how this 9-pool bug is supposed to look like?

Thanks,
Severin