RFR: JDK-8294902: Undefined Behavior in C2 regalloc with null references [v9]
Kim Barrett
kbarrett at openjdk.org
Mon Dec 12 15:44:52 UTC 2022
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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I'd like to enable `-fsanitize=null` in debug builds to prevent regressions in this area. What do you think?
>
> Andrew Haley has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>
> 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
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