On Sun, 22 May 2022 08:20:21 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can I please get a review of this change which addresses 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8287104?
> 
> The change in this commit now uses an `InnocuousThread` to create a thread 
> with `null` context classloader. The `Runnable` task of this thread just 
> invokes a native method through JNI to be notified of IP addresses change of 
> the host. As such any specific thread context classloader isn't necessary in 
> this thread.
> 
> Additionally, this commit does some minor changes like making the `lock` 
> member variable `final` and also marking the `changed` member variable as 
> `volatile`. These changes aren't necessary for this fix, but I think would be 
> good to have while we are changing this part of the code.
> 
> Finally, the thread that we create here, now has a specific name 
> `Net-address-change-listener` instead of the usual system wide auto-generated 
> name.
> 
> No new tests have been added for this change. Existing tier1, tier2 and tier3 
> tests have been run and no related failures have been noticed.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 81d7eafd
Author:    Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/81d7eafd913d28e0c83ddb29f9436b207da5f21c
Stats:     10 lines in 1 file changed: 5 ins; 0 del; 5 mod

8287104: AddressChangeListener thread inherits CCL and can cause memory leak 
for webapp-servers

Reviewed-by: aefimov, dfuchs

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8827

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