IV74631: PKCS11IMPL SECURITY PROVIDER PROBLEMS WITH MEMORY MANAGEMENT AFT ER CIPHER EXCEPTION THROWN

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Error Message: When pkcs11 memory management is enabled
  (default), sporadic <Object<PIPE>Key<PIPE>Session> is invalid
  messages are seen doing Cipher operations following a Cipher
  operation that generates an exception (e.g. ShortBufferException
  or IllegalBlockSizeException).
  The problem does not occur if the Cipher exceptions are not
  thrown.
  Problem is seen with Java 6, 7 and 8.
  .
  Stack Trace: N/A
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• When pkcs11 memory management is enabled (default), sporadic
  <Object<PIPE>Key<PIPE>Session> is invalid messages are seen
  doing Cipher operations following a Cipher operation that
  generates an exception (e.g. ShortBufferException or
  IllegalBlockSizeException).
  The problem does not occur if the Cipher exceptions are not
  thrown.
  Problem is seen with Java 6, 7 and 8.
  

Problem conclusion

• A hardware session handle was incorrectly being closed following
  the exception thrown.  This hardware session handle was again
  being closed during the cleanup of the Java session object.
  The code has been modified to ensure that only the Java session
  class will clean up the hardware session handle when PKCS#11
  memory management is enabled.
  .
  This APAR will be fixed in the following Java Releases:
     8    SR1 FP10  (8.0.1.10)
     6    SR16 FP7  (6.0.16.7)
     5.0  SR16 FP13 (5.0.16.13)
     7 R1 SR3 FP10  (7.1.3.10)
     7    SR9 FP 10 (7.0.9.10)
     6 R1 SR8 FP7   (6.1.8.7)
  .
  Contact your IBM Product's Service Team for these Service
  Refreshes and Fix Packs.
  For those running stand-alone, information about the available
  Service Refreshes and Fix Packs can be found at:
             https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  IV74632 IV74635

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  SECURITY

• Fixed component ID

  620700125

Applicable component levels

• R270 PSY

     UP

• R600 PSY

     UP

• R260 PSY

     UP