RFR: JDK-8296906: VMError::controlled_crash crashes with wrong code and address

Thomas Stuefe stuefe at openjdk.org
Sun Nov 13 20:08:21 UTC 2022


We have VMError::controlled_crash() in debug builds, whose job is to trigger clearly defined faults to test VM error reporting. VMError::controlled_crash(14) (the numbers don't mean anything and probably should be replaced with clear enums) is to crash with a SIGSEGV + SEGV_MAPERR mapping error at a well-known crash address. But this does not work on Linux, where it generates a SIGSEGV with SI_KERNEL instead. We never noticed since it had not been used in tests so far.

The reason for SI_KERNEL was that the crash address we use (0xABC0000000000ABC) was outside the user-space address range on Linux. This patch redefines the crash address to a value that really generates a SIGSEGV + SEGV_MAPERR on all our platforms. That's one line; the rest is a new regression test that checks that signal info is printed correctly in hs-err files.

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Commit messages:
 - JDK-8296906-VMError-controlled_crash-crashes-with-wrong-code-and-address

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11122/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=11122&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8296906
  Stats: 223 lines in 3 files changed: 220 ins; 1 del; 2 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11122.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/11122/head:pull/11122

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11122


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