RFR (M): 8026328: Setting a breakpoint on invokedynamic crashes the JVM

Vladimir Ivanov vladimir.x.ivanov at oracle.com
Wed Oct 23 06:03:34 PDT 2013


Chris,

-  ShouldNotReachHere();
+  {
+    ResourceMark rm;
+    fatal(err_msg("no original bytecode found in %s at bci %d", 
name_and_sig_as_C_string(), bci));
+  }

Did you intend to use err_msg_res there?

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

On 10/23/13 2:31 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8026328
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/8026328/webrev.00/
>
> 8026328: Setting a breakpoint on invokedynamic crashes the JVM
> Reviewed-by:
>
> Well-known invoke instructions have a 2-byte index but invokedynamic has a 4-byte index.  In return entries we check the bytecode instruction to decide which size the index has.
>
> The problem is that if there is a breakpoint there is no way to know what index size the instruction has because the original instruction byte was replaced with the breakpoint byte.
>
> There are a couple of ways to fix this but the proper way (in my opinion) is to have separate return entries for the different classes of invoke instructions.  This on one hand generates more return entries but on the other hand makes them smaller and simpler.
>


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