RFR: 8242882: opening jar file with large manifest might throw NegativeArraySizeException

Brent Christian bchristi at openjdk.java.net
Wed Sep 23 16:51:46 UTC 2020


On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:12:58 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review and a sponsor for a fix for https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8242882?
>> 
>> As noted in that JBS issue, if the size of the Manifest entry in the jar happens to be very large (such that it exceeds
>> the `Integer.MAX_VALUE`), then the current code in `JarFile#getBytes` can lead to a `NegativeArraySizeException`.  This
>> is due to the: if (len != -1 && len <= 65535)  block which evaluates to `true` when the size of the manifest entry is
>> larger than `Integer.MAX_VALUE`. As a result, this then ends up calling the code which can lead to the
>> `NegativeArraySizeException`.  The commit in this PR fixes that issue by changing those `if/else` blocks to prevent
>> this issue and instead use a code path that leads to the `InputStream#readAllBytes()` which internally has the
>> necessary checks to throw the expected `OutOfMemoryError`.  This commit also includes a jtreg test case which
>> reproduces the issue and verifies the fix.
>
> I had created a copy of this branch in my personal fork and included the `submit.yml` workflow as noted in this recent
> mail here[1] to try and run the `tier1` testing for this change. But it looks like that has failed for unrelated
> reasons[2]. So I'll go ahead and trigger the `tier1` tests locally instead.  [1]
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2020-September/004736.html [2]
> https://github.com/jaikiran/jdk/actions/runs/268948812

Hi, Jaikiran.  I can sponsor this change.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/323


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