JVM crash in JIT-compiled org.apache.http.impl.cookie.BestMatchSpec.formatCookies() method

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Issue

  • Our JBoss server crashes with the fatal error log containing:

    # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
    #
    #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f5b73e6d705, pid=31205, tid=140029100357376
    #
    # Problematic frame:
    # J  org.apache.http.impl.cookie.BestMatchSpec.formatCookies(Ljava/util/List;)Ljava/util/List;
    
  • Using Apache http client libary in our application, we sporadically get the following exception:

    Caused by: java.util.NoSuchElementException: 
        at java.util.ArrayList$Itr.next(ArrayList.java:757)
        at org.apache.http.impl.cookie.BestMatchSpec.formatCookies(BestMatchSpec.java:189)
        at org.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestAddCookies.process(RequestAddCookies.java:196)
        at org.apache.http.protocol.ImmutableHttpProcessor.process(ImmutableHttpProcessor.java:108)
        at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.preProcess(HttpRequestExecutor.java:174)
        at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:462)
        at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:820)
        at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:754) 
    

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 5.x
    • 6.x
  • Java 7

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