Java.awt.Dialog in Java 1.6 has a memory leak

Question

When a modal Dialog opens a modal sub-dialog, the Dialog stays in memory after both the sub-dialog and the Dialog itself is disposed.
The field that contains the leaked object is Dialog.modalDialogs (static). The methods which causes the leak are Dialog.modalHide and Dialog.modalShow.
Whenever a modal Dialog is opened, Dialog.modalShow is called, and adds itself to Dialog.modalDialogs.
When it closes, Dialog.modalHide is called and removes one copy of itself from Dialog.modalDialogs. Then Dialog.modalShow is called on all previously blocked modal dialogs. When the sub-dialog is opened and closed, Dialog.modalDialogs contains two references to the main Dialog, and only one of them is removed when Dialog.modalHide for that Dialog is called.
To detect the leak, just put a break point in Dialog.modalHide, after modalDialogs.remove(this);. When opening a Dialog and closing it without opening a sub-dialog, the Dialog.modalDialogs field should be empty. When a sub-dialog was opened and closed before the main Dialog is closed, the Dialog.modalDialogs field contains a reference to the disposed main Dialog.
This leak does not exist in 1.5.0_10 (no Dialog.modalDialogs field). I have searched the bug database, but I have not found this bug there. Could anyone confirm this?
A simple code to reproduce the leak:
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class Test {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      final JFrame frame = new JFrame() {
         protected void processWindowEvent(WindowEvent e) {
            super.processWindowEvent(e);
            if (e.getID() == WindowEvent.WINDOW_CLOSING) {
               System.exit(0);
      JButton button = new JButton("Dialog");
      button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
         public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent aE) {
            JButton subButton = new JButton("SubDialog");
            subButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent aE) {
                  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame, "SubDialog");
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame, subButton);
      frame.getContentPane().add(button);
      frame.pack();
      // Center the window
      Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
      Dimension frameSize = frame.getSize();
      if (frameSize.height > screenSize.height) {
         frameSize.height = screenSize.height;
      if (frameSize.width > screenSize.width) {
         frameSize.width = screenSize.width;
      frame.setLocation((screenSize.width - frameSize.width) / 2,
            (screenSize.height - frameSize.height) / 2);
      frame.setVisible(true);
}

Answer 1

Sorry, I just found the bug in the bugdatabase (with google of course,):
[http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6497929]