RFR: JDK-8294902: Undefined Behavior in C2 regalloc with null references [v9]

[Kim Barrett]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:51:22 GMT, Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch fixes the remaining null pointer dereference bugs that I know of.
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>> For the main bug, C2 was using a null reference to indicate an uninitialized `Node_List`. I replaced the null reference with a static sentinel.
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>> I also turned on `-fsanitize=null` and found and fixed a bunch of other null pointer dereferences. With this,I have run a full bootstrap and tier1 tests with `-fsanitize=null` enabled.
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>> I have checked that the code generated by GCC is not worse in any significant way, so I don't expect to see any performance regressions.
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>> I'd like to enable `-fsanitize=null` in debug builds to prevent regressions in this area. What do you think?
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> Andrew Haley has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Reviewer feedback

src/hotspot/share/utilities/globalDefinitions_gcc.hpp line 151:

> 149: #define offset_of(klass,field)                          \
> 150: []() {                                                  \
> 151:   char space[sizeof (klass)] ATTRIBUTE_ALIGNED(16);     \

Is 16 over-aligned on 32bit platforms? Too bad https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11446 isn't approved yet, else you could use alignas(std::max_align_t). (I wouldn't object if you were forward-looking here, though can't speak for anyone else.)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10920