RFR: 8325095: C2: bailout message broken: ResourceArea allocated string used after free [v5]
Emanuel Peter
epeter at openjdk.org
Fri Feb 23 15:43:07 UTC 2024
> **Problem**
> Bailout `failure_reason` strings used to be either `nullptr` or a static string. But with [JDK-8303951](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8303951) I had introduced dynamic strings (e.g. formatted using `stringStream::as_string()`). These dynamic strings were ResourceArea allocated, and have a very limited life-span, i.e. withing the most recent ResourceMark scope. The pointer is passed to `Compile::_failure_reason`, which already might leave that ResourceMark scope, and the pointer is invalid. And then the pointer is further passed to `ciEnv::_failure_reason`. And finally, it even gets passed up to `CompileBroker::invoke_compiler_on_method`. When the string is finally printed for the bailout message, we already left original `ResourceMark` scope, and also the `Compile` and `ciEnv` scopes. The pointer now points to basically random data.
>
> **Solution**
> Whenever a string is passed to an outer scope, I make a CHeap copy, and the outer scope is the owner of that copy.
> This way every scope is the owner of its own copy, and can allocate and deallocate according to its own strategy safely.
>
> I introduced a utility class `CHeapStringHolder`:
> - `set`: make local copy on CHeap.
> - `clear`: free local copy. We before `set`, and in the destructor. Thus, when the holder goes out of scope, the memory is automatically freed.
>
> We have these 4 scopes:
> - `ResourceMark`: It allocates from `ResourcArea`, and deallocation is taken care at the end of the ResourceMark scope.
> - `Compile`: We turn the `_failure_reason` from a `char*` into a `CHeapStringHolder`. We set `_failure_reason` while the `ResourceMark` is live.
> - `ciEnv`: We turn the `_failure_reason` from a `char*` into a `CHeapStringHolder`. We set `_failure_reason` while `Compile` is live.
> - `CompileTask`: We used to just set `failure_reason`, which assumes that the string is static or elsewhere managed. Now I use pattern available in other places of `CompileBroker::invoke_compiler_on_method`: duplicate the string with `os::strdup` from some other scope, and set `reason_on_C_heap = true`, which means that we are the owner of that copy, and are responsible for freeing it later. Not sure if that is a nice pattern, but I don't want to refactor that code and it does what I need it to do.
Emanuel Peter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
include precompiled.hpp, otherwise windows build fails
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17710/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17710/files/00bcb277..894a642c
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=17710&range=04
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=17710&range=03-04
Stats: 1 line in 1 file changed: 1 ins; 0 del; 0 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17710.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/17710/head:pull/17710
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17710
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