Spigot has patched this issue inside MapIcon, meaning that we no longer need to maintain this patch; Spigots patch also fixes#668 in that it will verify the length of the array, as well as protect against a negative type value being fetched from the array. Only real change is that Spigots patch returns a MapIcon.Type.PLAYER, instead of the RED_MARKER as originally PR'd by Aikar.
Currently, when a player dies they are not automatically ejected from the entity they are riding, which allows
for the ridden entity to affect the players location on respawn (we're still riding it for a part of a tick), as well as allows a dupe to occur with the ridden entity teleporting to the new world with the player
Shane Freeder