diff --git a/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapTable.cpp b/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapTable.cpp
index 3db348fdc6de90e21948733430324f67d65da5fa..feb5ae250d28778b4ada8e1af0d6ab7dacd5a0ef 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapTable.cpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/classfile/stackMapTable.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2003, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2003, 2014, 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
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ void StackMapTable::check_jump_target(
   }
   // check if uninitialized objects exist on backward branches
   check_new_object(frame, target, CHECK_VERIFY(frame->verifier()));
+  frame->verifier()->update_furthest_jump(target);
 }
 
 void StackMapTable::check_new_object(
diff --git a/src/share/vm/classfile/verifier.cpp b/src/share/vm/classfile/verifier.cpp
index 2e647474341941156ca8374daab29837dc098309..d61a4c3c01075c7d5ae86492fe6f8d4548f52a51 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/classfile/verifier.cpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/classfile/verifier.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2014, 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
@@ -632,6 +632,9 @@ void ClassVerifier::verify_method(methodHandle m, TRAPS) {
   bool no_control_flow = false; // Set to true when there is no direct control
                                 // flow from current instruction to the next
                                 // instruction in sequence
+
+  set_furthest_jump(0);
+
   Bytecodes::Code opcode;
   while (!bcs.is_last_bytecode()) {
     // Check for recursive re-verification before each bytecode.
@@ -2245,6 +2248,29 @@ void ClassVerifier::verify_invoke_init(
           "Bad <init> method call");
       return;
     }
+
+    // Make sure that this call is not jumped over.
+    if (bci < furthest_jump()) {
+      verify_error(ErrorContext::bad_code(bci),
+                   "Bad <init> method call from inside of a branch");
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // Make sure that this call is not done from within a TRY block because
+    // that can result in returning an incomplete object.  Simply checking
+    // (bci >= start_pc) also ensures that this call is not done after a TRY
+    // block.  That is also illegal because this call must be the first Java
+    // statement in the constructor.
+    ExceptionTable exhandlers(_method());
+    int exlength = exhandlers.length();
+    for(int i = 0; i < exlength; i++) {
+      if (bci >= exhandlers.start_pc(i)) {
+        verify_error(ErrorContext::bad_code(bci),
+                     "Bad <init> method call from after the start of a try block");
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+
     current_frame->initialize_object(type, current_type());
     *this_uninit = true;
   } else if (type.is_uninitialized()) {
diff --git a/src/share/vm/classfile/verifier.hpp b/src/share/vm/classfile/verifier.hpp
index 74143a6e7879cf4856cb711f1446384a5ef74c8e..ec2bbeb4e1e90e278f2bc1633bd99663971a023c 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/classfile/verifier.hpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/classfile/verifier.hpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2014, 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
@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@ class ClassVerifier : public StackObj {
 
   ErrorContext _error_context;  // contains information about an error
 
+  // Used to detect illegal jumps over calls to super() nd this() in ctors.
+  int32_t _furthest_jump;
+
   void verify_method(methodHandle method, TRAPS);
   char* generate_code_data(methodHandle m, u4 code_length, TRAPS);
   void verify_exception_handler_table(u4 code_length, char* code_data,
@@ -403,6 +406,20 @@ class ClassVerifier : public StackObj {
   Symbol* create_temporary_symbol(const char *s, int length, TRAPS);
 
   TypeOrigin ref_ctx(const char* str, TRAPS);
+
+  // Keep track of the furthest branch done in a method to make sure that
+  // there are no branches over calls to super() or this() from inside of
+  // a constructor.
+  int32_t furthest_jump() { return _furthest_jump; }
+
+  void set_furthest_jump(int32_t target) {
+    _furthest_jump = target;
+  }
+
+  void update_furthest_jump(int32_t target) {
+    if (target > _furthest_jump) _furthest_jump = target;
+  }
+
 };
 
 inline int ClassVerifier::change_sig_to_verificationType(