Race-condition leads to IllegalStateException Cache list entries number (x) > than the maximum allowed (x-1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: JBCOMMON-117 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBCOMMON-117 Project: JBoss Common Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: common-core (2.x) Affects Versions: 2.2.17.GA, 2.2.18.GA Reporter: Rico Neubauer Attachments: JBCOMMON-117.diff org.jboss.util.LRUCachePolicy takes care of a cache with a maxCapacity. Unfortunately the modifications of the count of entries is not thread-safe and might lead to the situation that the cache holds more than maxCapacity entries. This can only be seen rarely under heavy load on SMP machines; so far the count reached at most maxCapacity+1, but it's imaginable it could go beyond. One possibility is to fix the modifications of count, which should preferably NOT introduce synchronizations. Another simpler approach is to not throw the exception in case of the cache already having crossed the limit (which itself does not error-out), but behave nicely, since there are no real implications and the limit is not considered to be needed that strict imho. I will attach a proposed patch, showing the problem and using the latter option to fix it.