--- a/src/jdk.zipfs/share/classes/jdk/nio/zipfs/JarFileSystem.java	Wed Jan 31 11:25:34 2018 -0800
+++ b/src/jdk.zipfs/share/classes/jdk/nio/zipfs/JarFileSystem.java	Wed Jan 31 14:21:52 2018 -0800
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, 2018, 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
@@ -109,7 +109,9 @@
      */
     private Function<byte[],byte[]> createVersionedLinks(int version) {
         HashMap<IndexNode,byte[]> aliasMap = new HashMap<>();
-        getVersionMap(version, getInode(getBytes("/META-INF/versions"))).values()
+        IndexNode verdir = getInode(getBytes("/META-INF/versions"));
+        if (verdir != null) {
+            getVersionMap(version, verdir).values()
                 .forEach(versionNode -> {   // for each META-INF/versions/{n} directory
                     // put all the leaf inodes, i.e. entries, into the alias map
                     // possibly shadowing lower versioned entries
@@ -124,6 +126,7 @@
                         }
                     });
                 });
+        }
         return path -> aliasMap.get(IndexNode.keyOf(path));
     }
 

--- a/test/jdk/jdk/nio/zipfs/MultiReleaseJarTest.java	Wed Jan 31 11:25:34 2018 -0800
+++ b/test/jdk/jdk/nio/zipfs/MultiReleaseJarTest.java	Wed Jan 31 14:21:52 2018 -0800
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 /*
  * @test
- * @bug 8144355 8144062 8176709 8194070
+ * @bug 8144355 8144062 8176709 8194070 8193802
  * @summary Test aliasing additions to ZipFileSystem for multi-release jar files
  * @library /lib/testlibrary/java/util/jar
  * @build Compiler JarBuilder CreateMultiReleaseTestJars
@@ -204,6 +204,21 @@
         //testCustomMultiReleaseValue("true\r\n true", false);
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testMultiReleaseJarWithNonVersionDir() throws Exception {
+        String jfname = "multi-release-non-ver.jar";
+        Path jfpath = Paths.get(jfname);
+        URI uri = new URI("jar", jfpath.toUri().toString() , null);
+        JarBuilder jb = new JarBuilder(jfname);
+        jb.addAttribute("Multi-Release", "true");
+        jb.build();
+        Map<String,String> env = Map.of("multi-release", "runtime");
+        try (FileSystem fs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, env)) {
+            Assert.assertTrue(true);
+        }
+        Files.delete(jfpath);
+    }
+
     private static final AtomicInteger JAR_COUNT = new AtomicInteger(0);
 
     private void testCustomMultiReleaseValue(String value, boolean expected)