[SUREFIRE-908] Surefire fails with StackOverflowError when toolchains are present

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.12.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.12.4
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin
• Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold
• Reporter: Sergei S. Ivanov
• Created: 28/Aug/12 12:12
• Updated: 15/Sep/12 06:31
• Resolved: 15/Sep/12 06:31

Description

All our builds failed after an upgrade from 2.12.2 to 2.12.3 with the following stack trace. Looking at the trunk version of AbstractSurefireMojo.java, there's indeed an infinite recursion between the two methods. The recursion only happens when a toolchain is defined in the project.

[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.3:test (default-test) @ config-server ---
[INFO] Toolchain in surefire-plugin: JDK[/opt/app/****/tools/jdk/64/jdk1.6.0_15]
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchStandard(Launcher.java:329)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:239)
	at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main.launch(Maven3Main.java:158)
	at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:98)
	at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:64)
	at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
	at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
	at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:287)
	at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
	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)
Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.getEffectiveForkMode(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:890)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.isForkModeNever(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:880)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.getEffectiveForkMode(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:892)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.isForkModeNever(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:880)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.getEffectiveForkMode(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:892)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.isForkModeNever(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:880)
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