On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 06:44:56 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to fix the issue 
>> noted in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8308184?
>> 
>> When an application is launched, the `app` classloader internally uses a 
>> `jdk.internal.loader.URLClassPath` to find and load the main class being 
>> launched. The `URLClassPath` uses a list of classpath entries to find 
>> resources. Depending on the classpath entry, the `URLClassPath` will use a 
>> relevant loader. A couple of such loaders are `URLClassPath$FileLoader` (for 
>> loading resources from directories) and `URLClassPath$JarLoader` (for 
>> loading resources from jar files).
>> 
>> `JarLoader` creates instances of `java.net.URL` to represent the jar file 
>> being loaded. `java.net.URL` uses protocol specific 
>> `java.net.URLStreamHandler` instance to handle connections to those URLs. 
>> When constructing an instance of `URL`, callers can pass a protocol handler. 
>> If it is not passed then the `URL` class looks for protocol handlers that 
>> might have been configured by the application. The 
>> `java.protocol.handler.pkgs` system property is the one which allows 
>> overriding the protocol handlers (even for the `jar` protocol). When this 
>> property is set, the `URL` class triggers lookup and classloading of the 
>> protocol handler classes.
>> 
>> The issue that is reported is triggered when the 
>> `java.protocol.handler.pkgs` system property is set and the classpath has 
>> too many jar files. `app` classloader triggers lookup of the main class and 
>> the `URLClassPath` picks up the first entry in the classpath and uses a 
>> `JarLoader` (in this example our classpath entries have a jar file at the 
>> beginning of the list). The `JarLoader` instantiates a `java.net.URL`, which 
>> notices that the `java.protocol.handler.pkgs` is set, so it now triggers 
>> lookup of a (different) class using the same classloader and thus the same 
>> `URLClassPath`. The `URLClassPath` picks the next classpath entry and then 
>> calls into the `URL` again through the `JarLoader`. This sequence ends up 
>> being re-entrant calls and given the large number of classpath entries, 
>> these re-entrant calls end up with a `StackOverflowError` as shown in the 
>> linked JBS issue.
>> 
>> The commit in this PR fixes this issue by using the system provided protocol 
>> handler implementation of the `jar` protocol in the `app` classloader. This 
>> results in the `URL` instances created through the `JarLoader` to use this 
>> specific handler instance. This allows the `app` classloader which is 
>> responsible for loading the application's main class ...
>
> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   move the test to test/jdk/sun/misc/URLClassPath directory

Thank you Alan and Mandy for the reviews. tier1, tier2, tier3 testing came back 
fine. I'll go ahead and merge this.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14395#issuecomment-1586976047

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