RFR: JDK-8296906: VMError::controlled_crash crashes with wrong code and address [v4]

David Holmes dholmes at openjdk.org
Thu Nov 17 02:46:33 UTC 2022


On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:50:10 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 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.
>
> Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Remove trailing whitespace
>    
>    Co-authored-by: Andrey Turbanov <turbanoff at gmail.com>
>  - blessed modifiers
>    
>    Co-authored-by: Andrey Turbanov <turbanoff at gmail.com>

One nit, otherwise seems okay. Thanks.

test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/ErrorHandling/HsErrFileUtils.java line 53:

> 51:      * @return
> 52:      */
> 53:     static public File openHsErrFileFromOutput(OutputAnalyzer output) {

"Blessed modifier order" should be used on each function.  public static ...

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

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


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