Synchronization on 'this'

Reports synchronization on this or class expressions. The reported constructs include synchronized blocks and calls to wait(), notify() or notifyAll().

There are several reasons synchronization on this or class expressions may be a bad idea:

it makes synchronization a part of the external interface of the class, which makes a future change to a different locking mechanism difficult,
it becomes hard to track just who is locking on a given object,
it makes a denial-of-service attack possible, either on purpose or it can happen easily by accident when subclassing.

As an alternative, consider synchronizing on a private final lock object, access to which can be completely controlled.

Example:

public void print() {
  synchronized(this) { // warning: Lock operations on 'this' may have unforeseen side-effects
    System.out.println("synchronized");
  }
}

Inspection Details
Available in:	IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3
Plugin:	Java, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023