--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapFrame.cpp	Tue Jul 26 08:23:25 2016 -0400
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapFrame.cpp	Wed Oct 26 15:12:53 2016 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2003, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2003, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -155,47 +155,8 @@
   return i;
 }
 
-bool StackMapFrame::has_flag_match_exception(
-    const StackMapFrame* target) const {
-  // We allow flags of {UninitThis} to assign to {} if-and-only-if the
-  // target frame does not depend upon the current type.
-  // This is slightly too strict, as we need only enforce that the
-  // slots that were initialized by the <init> (the things that were
-  // UninitializedThis before initialize_object() converted them) are unused.
-  // However we didn't save that information so we'll enforce this upon
-  // anything that might have been initialized.  This is a rare situation
-  // and javac never generates code that would end up here, but some profilers
-  // (such as NetBeans) might, when adding exception handlers in <init>
-  // methods to cover the invokespecial instruction.  See 7020118.
-
-  assert(max_locals() == target->max_locals() &&
-         stack_size() == target->stack_size(), "StackMap sizes must match");
-
-  VerificationType top = VerificationType::top_type();
-  VerificationType this_type = verifier()->current_type();
-
-  if (!flag_this_uninit() || target->flags() != 0) {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  for (int i = 0; i < target->locals_size(); ++i) {
-    if (locals()[i] == this_type && target->locals()[i] != top) {
-      return false;
-    }
-  }
-
-  for (int i = 0; i < target->stack_size(); ++i) {
-    if (stack()[i] == this_type && target->stack()[i] != top) {
-      return false;
-    }
-  }
-
-  return true;
-}
-
 bool StackMapFrame::is_assignable_to(
-    const StackMapFrame* target, bool is_exception_handler,
-    ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const {
+    const StackMapFrame* target, ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const {
   if (_max_locals != target->max_locals()) {
     *ctx = ErrorContext::locals_size_mismatch(
         _offset, (StackMapFrame*)this, (StackMapFrame*)target);
@@ -226,8 +187,7 @@
     return false;
   }
 
-  bool match_flags = (_flags | target->flags()) == target->flags();
-  if (match_flags || is_exception_handler && has_flag_match_exception(target)) {
+  if ((_flags | target->flags()) == target->flags()) {
     return true;
   } else {
     *ctx = ErrorContext::bad_flags(target->offset(),

--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapFrame.hpp	Tue Jul 26 08:23:25 2016 -0400
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapFrame.hpp	Wed Oct 26 15:12:53 2016 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2003, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2003, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -167,8 +167,7 @@
 
   // Return true if this stack map frame is assignable to target.
   bool is_assignable_to(
-      const StackMapFrame* target, bool is_exception_handler,
-      ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const;
+      const StackMapFrame* target, ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const;
 
   inline void set_mark() {
 #ifdef ASSERT
@@ -290,8 +289,6 @@
   int is_assignable_to(
     VerificationType* src, VerificationType* target, int32_t len, TRAPS) const;
 
-  bool has_flag_match_exception(const StackMapFrame* target) const;
-
   TypeOrigin stack_top_ctx();
 
   void print_on(outputStream* str) const;

--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapTable.cpp	Tue Jul 26 08:23:25 2016 -0400
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapTable.cpp	Wed Oct 26 15:12:53 2016 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2003, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2003, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -70,26 +70,25 @@
 
 bool StackMapTable::match_stackmap(
     StackMapFrame* frame, int32_t target,
-    bool match, bool update, bool handler, ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const {
+    bool match, bool update, ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const {
   int index = get_index_from_offset(target);
-  return match_stackmap(frame, target, index, match, update, handler, ctx, THREAD);
+  return match_stackmap(frame, target, index, match, update, ctx, THREAD);
 }
 
 // Match and/or update current_frame to the frame in stackmap table with
 // specified offset and frame index. Return true if the two frames match.
-// handler is true if the frame in stackmap_table is for an exception handler.
 //
-// The values of match and update are:                  _match__update__handler
+// The values of match and update are:                  _match__update
 //
-// checking a branch target:                             true   false   false
-// checking an exception handler:                        true   false   true
+// checking a branch target:                             true   false
+// checking an exception handler:                        true   false
 // linear bytecode verification following an
-// unconditional branch:                                 false  true    false
+// unconditional branch:                                 false  true
 // linear bytecode verification not following an
-// unconditional branch:                                 true   true    false
+// unconditional branch:                                 true   true
 bool StackMapTable::match_stackmap(
     StackMapFrame* frame, int32_t target, int32_t frame_index,
-    bool match, bool update, bool handler, ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const {
+    bool match, bool update, ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const {
   if (frame_index < 0 || frame_index >= _frame_count) {
     *ctx = ErrorContext::missing_stackmap(frame->offset());
     frame->verifier()->verify_error(
@@ -102,7 +101,7 @@
   if (match) {
     // Has direct control flow from last instruction, need to match the two
     // frames.
-    result = frame->is_assignable_to(stackmap_frame, handler,
+    result = frame->is_assignable_to(stackmap_frame,
         ctx, CHECK_VERIFY_(frame->verifier(), result));
   }
   if (update) {
@@ -126,7 +125,7 @@
     StackMapFrame* frame, int32_t target, TRAPS) const {
   ErrorContext ctx;
   bool match = match_stackmap(
-    frame, target, true, false, false, &ctx, CHECK_VERIFY(frame->verifier()));
+    frame, target, true, false, &ctx, CHECK_VERIFY(frame->verifier()));
   if (!match || (target < 0 || target >= _code_length)) {
     frame->verifier()->verify_error(ctx,
         "Inconsistent stackmap frames at branch target %d", target);

--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapTable.hpp	Tue Jul 26 08:23:25 2016 -0400
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapTable.hpp	Wed Oct 26 15:12:53 2016 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2003, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2003, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -60,12 +60,12 @@
   // specified offset. Return true if the two frames match.
   bool match_stackmap(
     StackMapFrame* current_frame, int32_t offset,
-    bool match, bool update, bool handler, ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const;
+    bool match, bool update, ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const;
   // Match and/or update current_frame to the frame in stackmap table with
   // specified offset and frame index. Return true if the two frames match.
   bool match_stackmap(
     StackMapFrame* current_frame, int32_t offset, int32_t frame_index,
-    bool match, bool update, bool handler, ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const;
+    bool match, bool update, ErrorContext* ctx, TRAPS) const;
 
   // Check jump instructions. Make sure there are no uninitialized
   // instances on backward branch.

--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/verifier.cpp	Tue Jul 26 08:23:25 2016 -0400
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/verifier.cpp	Wed Oct 26 15:12:53 2016 -0400
@@ -1857,7 +1857,7 @@
       // If matched, current_frame will be updated by this method.
       bool matches = stackmap_table->match_stackmap(
         current_frame, this_offset, stackmap_index,
-        !no_control_flow, true, false, &ctx, CHECK_VERIFY_(this, 0));
+        !no_control_flow, true, &ctx, CHECK_VERIFY_(this, 0));
       if (!matches) {
         // report type error
         verify_error(ctx, "Instruction type does not match stack map");
@@ -1907,7 +1907,7 @@
       }
       ErrorContext ctx;
       bool matches = stackmap_table->match_stackmap(
-        new_frame, handler_pc, true, false, true, &ctx, CHECK_VERIFY(this));
+        new_frame, handler_pc, true, false, &ctx, CHECK_VERIFY(this));
       if (!matches) {
         verify_error(ctx, "Stack map does not match the one at "
             "exception handler %d", handler_pc);

--- a/hotspot/test/runtime/handlerInTry/LoadHandlerInTry.java	Tue Jul 26 08:23:25 2016 -0400
+++ b/hotspot/test/runtime/handlerInTry/LoadHandlerInTry.java	Wed Oct 26 15:12:53 2016 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 /*
  * @test
  * @bug 8075118
- * @summary Allow a ctor to call super() from a switch bytecode.
+ * @summary JVM stuck in infinite loop during verification
  * @compile HandlerInTry.jasm
  * @compile IsolatedHandlerInTry.jasm
  * @run main/othervm -Xverify:all LoadHandlerInTry
@@ -70,9 +70,10 @@
         System.out.println("Regression test for bug 8075118");
         try {
             Class newClass = Class.forName("HandlerInTry");
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            System.out.println("Failed: Exception was thrown: " + e.toString());
-            throw e;
+            throw new RuntimeException(
+                 "Failed to throw VerifyError for HandlerInTry");
+        } catch (java.lang.VerifyError e) {
+            System.out.println("Passed: VerifyError exception was thrown");
         }
 
         try {