ClassCastException: cannot assign SerializedLambda to field with ClassLoader

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Mar 26 02:34:10 UTC 2019


Hi Seth,

On 26/03/2019 12:16 pm, seth lytle wrote:
> i haven't changed the assignment from the original test case (which was 
> accepted as valid at the time). i haven't gone through it in depth, but 
> assume that it's ok and used it since people are already familiar with 
> it. it appears to me that that example uses reflection to allocate an 
> instance using a definitive class loader and then uses a runnable for 
> the serialization/deserialization cycle
> 
> the class cast exception happens not at the example level, but deep 
> inside `readObject` when it's doing an internal assignment
> 
> perhaps my choice of words "into a new classloader" was insufficient or 
> misleading. in both examples that i've come up with so far, the class 
> loader calls defineClass directly without first delegating to super (for 
> a subset of the classes). so "into a definitive classloader" might have 
> been a better choice

I think the basic problem is that this test loads a nested type into a 
different classloader to its enclosing type. I can easily imagine this 
messing up the code that gets generated to implement the lambda 
expression - but I'd need to examine that code in detail to see exactly 
why (others may know this more readily than I do). It's unclear to me 
whether this would be considered a bug or a "don't do that" situation. 
As of JDK 11, nested types define "nests" at the VM level (see JEP-181) 
and it is a requirement that all nest members be defined in the same 
package - which implies the same classloader.

David

> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 9:34 PM David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com 
> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Seth,
> 
>     On 26/03/2019 11:22 am, seth lytle wrote:
>      > if a lambda is a field and captures `this`, and it's deserialized
>     into a
>      > new class loader, it throws a ClassCastException.
> 
>     Not sure I follow. If you load a class into a different classloader
>     then
>     you get a different type. It might appear the same to you but it is a
>     distinct type, so you can't assign across different instances loaded by
>     different classloaders.
> 
>     Cheers,
>     David
>     -----
> 
>      > i came across this bug
>      > independently while writing a test, but then found an old openjdk
>     bug with
>      > a similar issue and tweaked the test case (source below). my version
>      > differs only in
>      > 1. moved the lambda to a field
>      > 2. reference `this` in it
>      > 3. uses readAllBytes instead of the internal method
>      > 4. formatting
>      >
>      > running with java 11 or 12 (or java 8 using a substitute for
>     readAllBytes)
>      > results in:
>      >                  this: test.SerializedLambdaTest$MyCode at 8efb846
>      >      deSerializedThis: test.SerializedLambdaTest$MyCode at 2b71fc7e
>      >              runnable:
>      >
>     test.SerializedLambdaTest$MyCode$$Lambda$1/0x0000000801188440 at 37bba400
>      > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: cannot
>     assign
>      > instance of java.lang.invoke.SerializedLambda to field
>      > test.SerializedLambdaTest$MyCode.runnable2 of type
>      > test.SerializedLambdaTest$SerializableRunnable in instance of
>      > test.SerializedLambdaTest$MyCode
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectStreamClass$FieldReflector.setObjFieldValues(ObjectStreamClass.java:2190)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectStreamClass$FieldReflector.checkObjectFieldValueTypes(ObjectStreamClass.java:2153)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectStreamClass.checkObjFieldValueTypes(ObjectStreamClass.java:1407)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.defaultCheckFieldValues(ObjectInputStream.java:2371)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2278)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2087)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1594)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.readArray(ObjectInputStream.java:1993)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1588)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2355)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2249)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2087)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1594)
>      > at
>      > java.base/java.io
>     <http://java.io>.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:430)
>      > at
>      >
>     test.SerializedLambdaTest$MyCode.deserialize(SerializedLambdaTest.java:35)
>      > at test.SerializedLambdaTest$MyCode.run(SerializedLambdaTest.java:51)
>      > at test.SerializedLambdaTest.main(SerializedLambdaTest.java:66)
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8008770
>      >
>      >
>      > package test;
>      >
>      > import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
>      > import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
>      > import java.io.IOException;
>      > import java.io.InputStream;
>      > import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
>      > import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
>      > import java.io.Serializable;
>      >
>      > // from: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8008770
>      > public class SerializedLambdaTest {
>      >      public interface SerializableRunnable extends
>     Runnable,Serializable {
>      >      }
>      >      public static class MyCode implements SerializableRunnable {
>      >          SerializableRunnable runnable2 = ()
>      >                  -> {
>      >              System.out.println("HELLO"+this.getClass());
>      >          };
>      >          private byte[] serialize(Object o) {
>      >              ByteArrayOutputStream baos;
>      >              try (
>      >                       ObjectOutputStream oos
>      >                      = new ObjectOutputStream(baos = new
>      > ByteArrayOutputStream())) {
>      >                  oos.writeObject(o);
>      >              } catch (IOException e) {
>      >                  throw new RuntimeException(e);
>      >              }
>      >              return baos.toByteArray();
>      >          }
>      >          private <T> T deserialize(byte[] bytes) {
>      >              try (
>      >                       ObjectInputStream ois
>      >                      = new ObjectInputStream(new
>      > ByteArrayInputStream(bytes))) {
>      >                  return (T) ois.readObject();
>      >              } catch (IOException|ClassNotFoundException e) {
>      >                  throw new RuntimeException(e);
>      >              }
>      >          }
>      >          @Override
>      >          public void run() {
>      >              System.out.println("                this: "+this);
>      >              SerializableRunnable deSerializedThis
>      >                      = deserialize(serialize(this));
>      >              System.out.println("    deSerializedThis: "
>      >                      +deSerializedThis);
>      >
>      >              SerializableRunnable runnable = runnable2;
>      >              System.out.println("            runnable: "+runnable);
>      >              SerializableRunnable deSerializedRunnable
>      >                      = deserialize(serialize(runnable));
>      >              System.out.println("deSerializedRunnable: "
>      >                      +deSerializedRunnable);
>      >          }
>      >      }
>      >      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>      >          ClassLoader myCl = new MyClassLoader(
>      >                  SerializedLambdaTest.class.getClassLoader()
>      >          );
>      >          Class<?> myCodeClass = Class.forName(
>      >                  SerializedLambdaTest.class.getName()+"$MyCode",
>      >                  true,
>      >                  myCl
>      >          );
>      >          Runnable myCode = (Runnable) myCodeClass.newInstance();
>      >          myCode.run();
>      >      }
>      >      static class MyClassLoader extends ClassLoader {
>      >          MyClassLoader(ClassLoader parent) {
>      >              super(parent);
>      >          }
>      >          @Override
>      >          protected Class<?> loadClass(String name,boolean resolve)
>      >                  throws ClassNotFoundException {
>      >              if (name.startsWith("test."))
>      >                  synchronized (getClassLoadingLock(name)) {
>      >                      Class<?> c = findLoadedClass(name);
>      >                      if (c==null)
>      >                          c = findClass(name);
>      >                      if (resolve)
>      >                          resolveClass(c);
>      >                      return c;
>      >                  }
>      >              else
>      >                  return super.loadClass(name,resolve);
>      >          }
>      >          @Override
>      >          protected Class<?> findClass(String name) throws
>      >                  ClassNotFoundException {
>      >              String path = name.replace('.','/').concat(".class");
>      >              try ( InputStream is = getResourceAsStream(path)) {
>      >                  if (is!=null) {
>      >                      byte[] bytes = is.readAllBytes();
>      >                      return defineClass(name,bytes,0,bytes.length);
>      >                  } else
>      >                      throw new ClassNotFoundException(name);
>      >              } catch (IOException e) {
>      >                  throw new ClassNotFoundException(name,e);
>      >              }
>      >          }
>      >      }
>      > }
>      >
> 


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