Integrated: 8276990: Memory leak in invoker.c fillInvokeRequest() during JDI operations

[Roman Kennke]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2022 14:44:43 GMT, Roman Kennke <rkennke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> We observe a native memory leak when repeating JDI operations from Eclipse in a debuggee JVM. See bug report for details.
> 
> AFAICT, this happens because we override methodSignature of a possible pre-existing request object. I am not sure if there is a better place to deallocate the signature.
> 
> Also, I am not sure how to make an automated test for this. We (that is, the customer that reported the problem) verified that the memory leak disappears with the fix.
> 
> Testing:
>  - [x] tier1
>  - [x] tier2
>  - [ ] tier3
>  - [x] Customer confirming fix of memory leak

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 5ab22e88
Author:    Roman Kennke <rkennke at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/5ab22e88da8d79f9e19e8afffdd06206f42bab94
Stats:     5 lines in 1 file changed: 5 ins; 0 del; 0 mod

8276990: Memory leak in invoker.c fillInvokeRequest() during JDI operations

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, cjplummer

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7306