SHORT SUMMARY: BUG IN UID CODE CAUSING RMI SERVER TO HANG IF SYSTEM TIME IS
CHANGED BACKWARD

INDICATORS:

Server RMI clock changed backwards, RMI server will hang with following stack
trace :

@ "RMI TCP Connection(4770)-127.0.0.1" daemon prio=10 tid=0x80ef4400
nid=0x5a27
@ waiting for monitor entry [0xf57ff000]
@ java.lang.Thread.State: BLOCKED (on object monitor)
@ at java.rmi.server.UID.<init>(UID.java:93)
@ - waiting to lock <0x5d56c090> (a java.lang.Object)
@ at
@
sun.rmi.transport.ConnectionOutputStream.<init>(ConnectionOutputStream.java:47

@ )
@ at
@
sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.getOutputStream(StreamRemoteCall.java:83)
@ at
@
sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.getResultStream(StreamRemoteCall.java:171)
@ at
@ sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:312)
@ at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:159)
@ at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native
Method)
@ at
@ sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:155)
@ at
@ sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:535)
@ at
@
sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:79

@ 0)
@ at
@
sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:649

@ )
@ at
@
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java

@ :886)
@ at
@
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908

@ )
@ at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
@ .


COUNTER INDICATORS:
TRIGGERS:

System clock changed back on an RMI server and 65536 UID
constructor calls made.

KNOWN WORKAROUND:

Don't modify system clock while RMI server is running.

PRESENT SINCE:

Looks to be present since at least 1.4.2 + later JDK code.
HOW TO VERIFY:

Testcase available - (to upload/attach later)

NOTES FOR SE:

Reported on 6u24.
We should add an extra condition so that the lastCount static variable
counter is checked against the current millisecond time value (i.e 65536
unique constructor calls allowed per millisecond)

REGRESSION:

N/A