EJB Passivation can fail from StackOverflowError with no message logged in JBoss EAP 6.4 CP6

Environment

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.4 CP6

Issue

• Our Stateful EJB holds a complex and deep object, we found passivation can fail caused by a StackOverflowError, but the StackOverflowError is not logged.

org.jboss.as.ejb3.cache.spi.impl.FilePersistentObjectStore.store(FilePersistentObjectStore.java:262)
 	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.cache.spi.impl.FilePersistentObjectStore.store(FilePersistentObjectStore.java:57)
 	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.cache.impl.backing.SimpleBackingCacheEntryStore.passivate(SimpleBackingCacheEntryStore.java:162)
 	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.cache.impl.backing.SerializationGroupMemberContainer.passivate(SerializationGroupMemberContainer.java:299)
 	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.cache.impl.backing.SerializationGroupMemberContainer.passivate(SerializationGroupMemberContainer.java:51) - What is this?
 	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.cache.impl.backing.PassivatingBackingCacheImpl.passivate(PassivatingBackingCacheImpl.java:199)
 	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.cache.impl.backing.PassivatingBackingCacheImpl.passivate(PassivatingBackingCacheImpl.java:58)
 	at org.jboss.as.ejb3.cache.spi.impl.PassivateTask.run(PassivateTask.java:46)
 	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
 	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
 	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178)
 	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:292)
 	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
 	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)

Resolution

Apply JBoss EAP 6.4 Cumulative Patch (CP) 7 or later

Root Cause

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