RFR: 8331731: ubsan: relocInfo.cpp:155:30: runtime error: applying non-zero offset 18446744073709551614 to null pointer

[Martin Doerr]

On Tue, 28 May 2024 12:36:40 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When running on macOS with ubsan enabled, we see some issues in relocInfo  (hpp and cpp); those already occur in the build quite early.
> 
> /jdk/src/hotspot/share/code/relocInfo.cpp:155:30: runtime error: applying non-zero offset 18446744073709551614 to null pointer
> 
> Similar happens when we add to the _current pointer
>     _current++;
> this gives :
> relocInfo.hpp:606:13: runtime error: applying non-zero offset to non-null pointer 0xfffffffffffffffe produced null pointer
> 
> Seems the pointer subtraction/addition worked so far, so it might be an option to disable ubsan for those 2 functions.

`val` needs an unsigned type to avoid undefined behavior because of signed integer overflow. I'd use `uintptr_t`.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19424#issuecomment-2136944166