--- a/src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/imageio/plugins/png/PNGImageWriter.java	Wed Apr 18 12:33:21 2018 +0530
+++ b/src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/imageio/plugins/png/PNGImageWriter.java	Wed Apr 18 13:22:53 2018 +0530
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 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
@@ -651,11 +651,11 @@
             int colorType = metadata.IHDR_colorType & 0x3;
             int chunkType = metadata.bKGD_colorType;
 
+            int chunkRed = metadata.bKGD_red;
+            int chunkGreen = metadata.bKGD_green;
+            int chunkBlue = metadata.bKGD_blue;
             // Special case: image is RGB(A) and chunk is Gray
             // Promote chunk contents to RGB
-            int chunkRed = metadata.bKGD_red;
-            int chunkGreen = metadata.bKGD_red;
-            int chunkBlue = metadata.bKGD_red;
             if (colorType == PNGImageReader.PNG_COLOR_RGB &&
                 chunkType == PNGImageReader.PNG_COLOR_GRAY) {
                 // Make a gray bKGD chunk look like RGB

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/test/jdk/javax/imageio/plugins/png/VerifyRGBValuesFromBKGDChunk.java	Wed Apr 18 13:22:53 2018 +0530
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 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
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug     6574555
+ * @summary Test verifies that PNGImageWriter encodes the R, G, B
+ *          values of bKGD chunk properly.
+ * @run     main VerifyRGBValuesFromBKGDChunk
+ */
+
+import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import javax.imageio.ImageTypeSpecifier;
+import javax.imageio.ImageWriter;
+import javax.imageio.ImageReader;
+import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
+import javax.imageio.ImageWriteParam;
+import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadata;
+import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadataNode;
+import javax.imageio.IIOImage;
+import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;
+import javax.imageio.stream.ImageOutputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+public class VerifyRGBValuesFromBKGDChunk {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
+        int width = 1;
+        int height = 1;
+        BufferedImage img = new
+            BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_BGR);
+        Iterator<ImageWriter> iterWriter =
+            ImageIO.getImageWritersBySuffix("png");
+        ImageWriter writer = iterWriter.next();
+
+        ImageWriteParam param = writer.getDefaultWriteParam();
+        ImageTypeSpecifier specifier =
+            ImageTypeSpecifier.
+                createFromBufferedImageType(BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_BGR);
+        IIOMetadata encodeMetadata =
+            writer.getDefaultImageMetadata(specifier, param);
+
+        // Write png image with bKGD chunk
+        IIOMetadataNode bKGD_rgb = new IIOMetadataNode("bKGD_RGB");
+        String red = "100";
+        String green = "150";
+        String blue = "200";
+        bKGD_rgb.setAttribute("red", red);
+        bKGD_rgb.setAttribute("green", green);
+        bKGD_rgb.setAttribute("blue", blue);
+
+        IIOMetadataNode bKGD = new IIOMetadataNode("bKGD");
+        bKGD.appendChild(bKGD_rgb);
+        IIOMetadataNode encodeRoot =
+            new IIOMetadataNode("javax_imageio_png_1.0");
+        encodeRoot.appendChild(bKGD);
+
+        encodeMetadata.mergeTree("javax_imageio_png_1.0", encodeRoot);
+
+        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(baos);
+        writer.setOutput(ios);
+
+        writer.write(encodeMetadata,
+                     new IIOImage(img, null, encodeMetadata), param);
+        writer.dispose();
+
+        baos.flush();
+        byte[] imageByteArray = baos.toByteArray();
+        baos.close();
+
+        // Get bKGD chunk from image and verify the values
+        InputStream input= new ByteArrayInputStream(imageByteArray);
+        ImageInputStream iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(input);
+        Iterator<ImageReader> iterReader =
+            ImageIO.getImageReadersBySuffix("png");
+        ImageReader reader = iterReader.next();
+        reader.setInput(iis, false, false);
+
+        IIOMetadata decodeMetadata = reader.getImageMetadata(0);
+        IIOMetadataNode decodeRoot =
+            (IIOMetadataNode) decodeMetadata.
+                getAsTree("javax_imageio_png_1.0");
+        bKGD_rgb = (IIOMetadataNode)
+            decodeRoot.getElementsByTagName("bKGD_RGB").item(0);
+        reader.dispose();
+
+        if (!(red.equals(bKGD_rgb.getAttribute("red")) &&
+              green.equals(bKGD_rgb.getAttribute("green")) &&
+              blue.equals(bKGD_rgb.getAttribute("blue")))) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("bKGD RGB values are not stored" +
+            " properly");
+        }
+    }
+}
+