diff --git a/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/font/GlyphLayout.java b/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/font/GlyphLayout.java
index d34734f8e9a..468e4a118c5 100644
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/font/GlyphLayout.java
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/sun/font/GlyphLayout.java
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ public final class GlyphLayout {
     private GVData _gvdata;
 
     // cached glyph layout data for reuse
-    private static GlyphLayout cache;  // reusable
+    private static volatile GlyphLayout cache;  // reusable
 
     private LayoutEngineFactory _lef;  // set when get is called, unset when done is called
     private TextRecord _textRecord;    // the text we're working on, used by iterators