RFR: 8299739: HashedPasswordFileTest.java and ExceptionTest.java can fail with java.lang.NullPointerException

Tue Feb 7 01:49:43 UTC 2023

On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:11:41 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Exceptions during setup of these tests could leave e.g. JMXConnector cs as null.
> But, we call cs.close() during a finally block and fail with an NPE, obscuring the real failure.
> We must only call close if this is not null.

ExceptionTest failure looks strange, but anyway we need the checks to avoid NPE on failures

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Marked as reviewed by amenkov (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11881