java.lang.StackOverflowError in org.jboss.jca during XAManagedConnection.end error handling in JBoss EAP

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
  • 7.x
  • 8.0.x
• IronJacamar
  • 1.3
  • 1.4
  • 3.0.8

Issue

• A connection error during transaction completion results in infinite recursion/looping that leads to a StackOverflowError

• The stack frames below are seen to be repeating within the stack trace

  ... java.lang.StackOverflowError
          ...
          at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple.delistResource(TransactionImple.java:914)
          at org.jboss.jca.core.connectionmanager.listener.TxConnectionListener.haltCatchFire(TxConnectionListener.java:768)
          at org.jboss.jca.core.connectionmanager.listener.AbstractConnectionListener.connectionErrorOccurred(AbstractConnectionListener.java:468)
          at org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.BaseWrapperManagedConnection.broadcastConnectionError(BaseWrapperManagedConnection.java:672)
          at org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.xa.XAManagedConnection.end(XAManagedConnection.java:301)
          at org.jboss.jca.core.tx.jbossts.XAResourceWrapperImpl.end(XAResourceWrapperImpl.java:118)
          ...
  

Resolution

• This issue¹ had a partial fix release in This content is not included.EAP 7.1 cumulative patch (CP) 2 and later releases. ¹: See This content is not included.JBEAP-14870 / This content is not included.JBEAP-14098
• The full fix is available in 7.4.23+, 8.0 update 7+, and 8.1.0+:
  • 7.4.23: This content is not included.JBEAP-29909
  • 8.0 update 7: This content is not included.JBEAP-29445

Root Cause

This is a known defect (This content is not included.JBJCA-1368 and then subsequently This content is not included.JBJCA-1484).

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