Reviewer needed: fixed segfault in IcedTea7-hotspot

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Tue Aug 2 22:52:16 PDT 2011


On 10:58 Tue 02 Aug     , Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'd like to add fix in hotspot code created by Andrew Haley to
> IcedTea7-hotspot.
> 
> Two issues which are corrected by this fix are discussed in following
> thread:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2011-August/004338.html
> 
> 
> Here's ChangeLog entry for IcedTea7-HEAD:
> 
> 2011-08-02  Andrew Haley  <aph at redhat.com>
> 
>         Fixed two bugs in src/share/vm/runtime/os.cpp
>         which caused random segfaults due to buffer
>         overflow and incorrect usage of int variable
>         instead of char (byte) one.
>         * Makefile.am:
>         (HOTSPOT_CHANGESET): Updated.
>         (HOTSPOT_SHA256SUM): Likewise.
> 
> 
> Can anybody please review this change?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Pavel

FYI: It's been allocated 7073913 so include this in the forest commit message.


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