RFR: 8339769: VM crash during initialization if working directory does not exist

Justin Lu jlu at openjdk.org
Thu Sep 12 22:01:37 UTC 2024


Please review this PR which restores the correct exception message when the current working directory can not be found during java startup in `initPhase1`.

Both MacOS and Linux are expected to fail with `java.lang.Error: Properties init: Could not determine current working directory` if the _user.dir_ system property cannot be initialized. Currently, MacOS now fails with `java.lang.InternalError: platform encoding not initialized` and Linux fails with  `java.lang.InternalError: null property: user.dir` which are both unexpected messages. 

In `System.c`, `Java_jdk_internal_util_SystemProps_00024Raw_platformProperties` calls `GetJavaProperties(JNIEnv *env)` which throws an internal error (with an appropriate message) for Unix platforms when the current working directory cannot be found. However, this exception is never checked and thus unexpected failures occur later. The expected behavior can be restored by checking if an exception occurred from this call and returning if so.

See _src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/java_props_md.c_ at line 520 for context regarding retrieving the current working directory in `GetJavaProperties(JNIEnv *env)`.

Testing done locally on both platforms.

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Commit messages:
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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20975/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=20975&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8339769
  Stats: 2 lines in 1 file changed: 1 ins; 0 del; 1 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20975.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/20975/head:pull/20975

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20975


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