diff --git a/make/mapfiles/libjava/mapfile-vers b/make/mapfiles/libjava/mapfile-vers
index 0d3e9e059c731169fb7d78cd755a79e4373eab4f..09b25bfb0d58cd9742c06f2793b97758eb87be27 100644
--- a/make/mapfiles/libjava/mapfile-vers
+++ b/make/mapfiles/libjava/mapfile-vers
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ SUNWprivate_1.1 {
                 Java_sun_misc_Version_getJvmVersionInfo;
                 Java_sun_misc_Version_getJvmSpecialVersion;
                 Java_sun_misc_VM_getThreadStateValues;
-		Java_sun_misc_VM_latestUserDefinedLoader;
+		Java_sun_misc_VM_latestUserDefinedLoader0;
                 Java_sun_misc_VM_initialize;
 		Java_sun_misc_VMSupport_initAgentProperties;
 		Java_sun_misc_VMSupport_getVMTemporaryDirectory;
diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/io/ObjectInputStream.java b/src/share/classes/java/io/ObjectInputStream.java
index de9c6366d689b4b31f7f1ac3e1ba37bf3e0f55d1..fa1832ddcea96652f9abe52abaf17cb9684726a9 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/java/io/ObjectInputStream.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/io/ObjectInputStream.java
@@ -2329,10 +2329,11 @@ public class ObjectInputStream
                                               int ndoubles);
 
     /**
-     * Returns the first non-null class loader (not counting class loaders of
-     * generated reflection implementation classes) up the execution stack, or
-     * null if only code from the null class loader is on the stack.  This
-     * method is also called via reflection by the following RMI-IIOP class:
+     * Returns first non-privileged class loader on the stack (excluding
+     * reflection generated frames) or the extension class loader if only
+     * class loaded by the boot class loader and extension class loader are
+     * found on the stack. This method is also called via reflection by the
+     * following RMI-IIOP class:
      *
      *     com.sun.corba.se.internal.util.JDKClassLoader
      *
diff --git a/src/share/classes/sun/misc/Launcher.java b/src/share/classes/sun/misc/Launcher.java
index 37bc190de4eaff1c0a5b12e3f7ca008f57112405..a5d4b7270fe7fa80f789ede862177defcb826cbb 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/sun/misc/Launcher.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/sun/misc/Launcher.java
@@ -128,8 +128,6 @@ public class Launcher {
          */
         public static ExtClassLoader getExtClassLoader() throws IOException
         {
-            final File[] dirs = getExtDirs();
-
             try {
                 // Prior implementations of this doPrivileged() block supplied
                 // aa synthesized ACC via a call to the private method
@@ -138,6 +136,7 @@ public class Launcher {
                 return AccessController.doPrivileged(
                     new PrivilegedExceptionAction<ExtClassLoader>() {
                         public ExtClassLoader run() throws IOException {
+                            final File[] dirs = getExtDirs();
                             int len = dirs.length;
                             for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
                                 MetaIndex.registerDirectory(dirs[i]);
diff --git a/src/share/classes/sun/misc/VM.java b/src/share/classes/sun/misc/VM.java
index 4ae2664b7c1e175a76b73fe769f523dfc6696966..3e64628c6fbd0e5ecc94d12b08f29ba22c84c3b9 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/sun/misc/VM.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/sun/misc/VM.java
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
 package sun.misc;
 
 import static java.lang.Thread.State.*;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.security.AccessControlException;
 import java.util.Properties;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -399,10 +401,23 @@ public class VM {
     private final static int JVMTI_THREAD_STATE_WAITING_WITH_TIMEOUT = 0x0020;
 
     /*
-     * Returns the first non-null class loader up the execution stack,
-     * or null if only code from the null class loader is on the stack.
+     * Returns first non-privileged class loader on the stack (excluding
+     * reflection generated frames) or the extension class loader if only
+     * class loaded by the boot class loader and extension class loader are
+     * found on the stack.
      */
-    public static native ClassLoader latestUserDefinedLoader();
+    public static native ClassLoader latestUserDefinedLoader0();
+    public static ClassLoader latestUserDefinedLoader() {
+        ClassLoader loader = latestUserDefinedLoader0();
+        if (loader != null) {
+            return loader;
+        }
+        try {
+            return Launcher.ExtClassLoader.getExtClassLoader();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
 
     static {
         initialize();
diff --git a/src/share/classes/sun/rmi/server/MarshalInputStream.java b/src/share/classes/sun/rmi/server/MarshalInputStream.java
index 838ac3279dbdbec197f5544c031563c0f963830b..91be64bc441ba6d1bdc833de57c5ac30a6eb3145 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/sun/rmi/server/MarshalInputStream.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/sun/rmi/server/MarshalInputStream.java
@@ -255,8 +255,10 @@ public class MarshalInputStream extends ObjectInputStream {
     }
 
     /*
-     * Returns the first non-null class loader up the execution stack, or null
-     * if only code from the null class loader is on the stack.
+     * Returns first non-privileged class loader on the stack (excluding
+     * reflection generated frames) or the extension class loader if only
+     * class loaded by the boot class loader and extension class loader are
+     * found on the stack.
      */
     private static ClassLoader latestUserDefinedLoader() {
         return sun.misc.VM.latestUserDefinedLoader();
diff --git a/src/share/native/sun/misc/VM.c b/src/share/native/sun/misc/VM.c
index f7b752f3f2d06dd6be85c3aff70af0512509735b..573ad4f6f2e6feb97288b6498c0e80d1c82d8716 100644
--- a/src/share/native/sun/misc/VM.c
+++ b/src/share/native/sun/misc/VM.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Java_sun_misc_VM_getThreadStateValues(JNIEnv *env, jclass cls,
 }
 
 JNIEXPORT jobject JNICALL
-Java_sun_misc_VM_latestUserDefinedLoader(JNIEnv *env, jclass cls) {
+Java_sun_misc_VM_latestUserDefinedLoader0(JNIEnv *env, jclass cls) {
     return JVM_LatestUserDefinedLoader(env);
 }