After JDK-8265518, it's possible to replace all variants of checkIndex by Objects.checkIndex/Objects.checkFromToIndex/Objects.checkFromIndexSize in the whole JDK codebase.

As Mandy suggested, file an issue for changes involving JSR 166:

diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/CopyOnWriteArrayList.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/CopyOnWriteArrayList.java
index ee8e7b81728f..6ae552944015 100644
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/CopyOnWriteArrayList.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/CopyOnWriteArrayList.java
@@ -561,8 +561,7 @@ void removeRange(int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
             Object[] es = getArray();
             int len = es.length;
 
- if (fromIndex < 0 || toIndex > len || toIndex < fromIndex)
- throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException();
+ Objects.checkFromToIndex(fromIndex, toIndex, len);
             int newlen = len - (toIndex - fromIndex);
             int numMoved = len - toIndex;
             if (numMoved == 0)
@@ -1173,8 +1172,7 @@ public void forEachRemaining(Consumer<? super E> action) {
             Object[] es = getArray();
             int len = es.length;
             int size = toIndex - fromIndex;
- if (fromIndex < 0 || toIndex > len || size < 0)
- throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException();
+ Objects.checkFromToIndex(fromIndex, toIndex, len);
             return new COWSubList(es, fromIndex, size);
         }
     }
@@ -1457,8 +1455,7 @@ public boolean remove(Object o) {
         public List<E> subList(int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
             synchronized (lock) {
                 checkForComodification();
- if (fromIndex < 0 || toIndex > size || fromIndex > toIndex)
- throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException();
+ Objects.checkFromToIndex(fromIndex, toIndex, size);
                 return new COWSubList(expectedArray, fromIndex + offset, toIndex - fromIndex);
             }
         }