diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/locks/AbstractQueuedLongSynchronizer.java b/src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/locks/AbstractQueuedLongSynchronizer.java
index 2b0f36c523d1c9b9288ef1af0d684eb45dbb062c..a7f048e8bdb13e52a64e0d864246ad06f45b3b5e 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/locks/AbstractQueuedLongSynchronizer.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/locks/AbstractQueuedLongSynchronizer.java
@@ -1222,8 +1222,10 @@ public abstract class AbstractQueuedLongSynchronizer
         // The correctness of this depends on head being initialized
         // before tail and on head.next being accurate if the current
         // thread is first in queue.
-        Node h, s;
-        return (h = head) != tail &&
+        Node t = tail; // Read fields in reverse initialization order
+        Node h = head;
+        Node s;
+        return h != t &&
             ((s = h.next) == null || s.thread != Thread.currentThread());
     }
 
diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/locks/AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java b/src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/locks/AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java
index 597e15270aeedade66625fceb30ae5ed368c48c9..39219bb5fd9111950c61c46f9eb02631f382190e 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/locks/AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/locks/AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java
@@ -1445,8 +1445,10 @@ public abstract class AbstractQueuedSynchronizer
         // The correctness of this depends on head being initialized
         // before tail and on head.next being accurate if the current
         // thread is first in queue.
-        Node h, s;
-        return (h = head) != tail &&
+        Node t = tail; // Read fields in reverse initialization order
+        Node h = head;
+        Node s;
+        return h != t &&
             ((s = h.next) == null || s.thread != Thread.currentThread());
     }