While doing some work to verify ISPN-244, I've spotted that RemoteLockCleanupStressTest throws. Note that this is not related to the ISPN-244 cos the issue is present in 4.2.x as well where ISPN-244 has no bearing:

2010-12-08 18:16:25,945 13951 ERROR [org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport] (Incoming-2,Infinispan-Cluster,NodeC-2057 Caught while requesting or applying state
org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateTransferException: java.io.EOFException: Read past end of file
at org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateTransferManagerImpl.applyState(StateTransferManagerImpl.java:331)
at org.infinispan.remoting.InboundInvocationHandlerImpl.applyState(InboundInvocationHandlerImpl.java:102)
at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.setState(JGroupsTransport.java:598)
at org.jgroups.blocks.MessageDispatcher$ProtocolAdapter.handleUpEvent(MessageDispatcher.java:712)
at org.jgroups.blocks.MessageDispatcher$ProtocolAdapter.up(MessageDispatcher.java:772)
at org.jgroups.JChannel.up(JChannel.java:1422)
at org.jgroups.stack.ProtocolStack.up(ProtocolStack.java:954)
at org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.FLUSH.up(FLUSH.java:478)
at org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STREAMING_STATE_TRANSFER.connectToStateProvider(STREAMING_STATE_TRANSFER.java:525)
at org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STREAMING_STATE_TRANSFER.handleStateRsp(STREAMING_STATE_TRANSFER.java:464)
at org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STREAMING_STATE_TRANSFER.up(STREAMING_STATE_TRANSFER.java:225)
at org.jgroups.protocols.FRAG2.up(FRAG2.java:190)
at org.jgroups.protocols.FC.up(FC.java:483)
at org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.GMS.up(GMS.java:888)
at org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.STABLE.up(STABLE.java:234)
at org.jgroups.protocols.UNICAST.handleDataReceived(UNICAST.java:615)
at org.jgroups.protocols.UNICAST.up(UNICAST.java:295)
at org.jgroups.protocols.pbcast.NAKACK.up(NAKACK.java:707)
at org.jgroups.protocols.VERIFY_SUSPECT.up(VERIFY_SUSPECT.java:132)
at org.jgroups.protocols.FD.up(FD.java:266)
at org.jgroups.protocols.FD_SOCK.up(FD_SOCK.java:269)
at org.jgroups.protocols.MERGE2.up(MERGE2.java:210)
at org.jgroups.protocols.Discovery.up(Discovery.java:292)
at org.jgroups.protocols.TP.passMessageUp(TP.java:1093)
at org.jgroups.protocols.TP.access$100(TP.java:56)
at org.jgroups.protocols.TP$IncomingPacket.handleMyMessage(TP.java:1633)
at org.jgroups.protocols.TP$IncomingPacket.run(TP.java:1615)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: Read past end of file
at org.jboss.marshalling.AbstractUnmarshaller.eofOnRead(AbstractUnmarshaller.java:184)
at org.jboss.marshalling.AbstractUnmarshaller.readUnsignedByteDirect(AbstractUnmarshaller.java:319)
at org.jboss.marshalling.AbstractUnmarshaller.readUnsignedByte(AbstractUnmarshaller.java:280)
at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverUnmarshaller.doReadObject(RiverUnmarshaller.java:207)
at org.jboss.marshalling.AbstractUnmarshaller.readObject(AbstractUnmarshaller.java:85)
at org.infinispan.marshall.jboss.GenericJBossMarshaller.objectFromObjectStream(GenericJBossMarshaller.java:162)
at org.infinispan.marshall.VersionAwareMarshaller.objectFromObjectStream(VersionAwareMarshaller.java:184)
at org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateTransferManagerImpl.processCommitLog(StateTransferManagerImpl.java:228)
at org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateTransferManagerImpl.applyTransactionLog(StateTransferManagerImpl.java:250)
at org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateTransferManagerImpl.applyState(StateTransferManagerImpl.java:320)
... 29 more

Now, in spite of this issue the test passes!!! (WTF?).

So, first things first, the test needs improving to send these issues back up. That probably means changing to a Callable rather than Runnable, and will see which exceptions we wanna swallow and which ones we wanna propagate. Then I'll get going to figure out the cause.