The test javax/imageio/plugins/shared/WriteAfterAbort.java created together with a fix to JDK-4952954 and fixed in b52 fails in this PIT with IIOException:

javax.imageio.IIOException: I/O error reading image metadata!
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageReader.readMetadata(TIFFImageReader.java:310)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageReader.seekToImage(TIFFImageReader.java:280)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageReader.prepareRead(TIFFImageReader.java:921)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageReader.read(TIFFImageReader.java:1096)
at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1448)
at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1308)
at WriteAfterAbort.test(WriteAfterAbort.java:117)
at WriteAfterAbort.main(WriteAfterAbort.java:137)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:520)
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.agent.MainWrapper$MainThread.run(MainWrapper.java:110)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:747)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStreamImpl.readShort(ImageInputStreamImpl.java:229)
at javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStreamImpl.readUnsignedShort(ImageInputStreamImpl.java:242)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFIFD.initialize(TIFFIFD.java:470)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageMetadata.initializeFromStream(TIFFImageMetadata.java:87)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageReader.readMetadata(TIFFImageReader.java:306)
... 13 more

The failure is platform-independent and seems new for this PIT.

RULE "javax/imageio/plugins/shared/WriteAfterAbort.java" Exception javax.imageio.IIOException: I/O error reading image metadata!