RFR: 8359200: Memory corruption in MStack::push [v2]

Aleksey Shipilev shade at openjdk.org
Thu Jun 12 12:17:36 UTC 2025


On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:41:54 GMT, Tobias Hartmann <thartmann at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I found this by accident when running testing with non-default `-XX:OptoNodeListSize` (see JBS for details). The problem is that `MStack::push` assumes that `Node_Stack::grow` will always grow the stack by at least two (line 69) and it then proceeds to put two items in:
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/db6fa5923cd0394dfb44c7e46c3e7ccc102a933a/src/hotspot/share/opto/matcher.hpp#L67-L74
>> 
>> But after [JDK-8336999](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8336999), `Node_Stack::grow` will only grow the stack if needed:
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/db6fa5923cd0394dfb44c7e46c3e7ccc102a933a/src/hotspot/share/opto/node.cpp#L3027-L3031
>> 
>> However, if there's **one** empty slot, the stack will not be grown and `MStack::push` then puts **two** items on the stack which leads to memory corruption.
>> 
>> I refactored the push method to delegate to `Node_Stack::push` which does the right thing and, similar to [JDK-8343056](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8343056), also added `maybe_grow` methods for all the containers affected by the original change. For additional coverage, I moved the `_nesting.check` calls to before the check that determines if we grow.
>> 
>> I only ever observed this with a non-default and odd value for `-XX:OptoNodeListSize` but I'm not 100% convinced that it can't happen with the default value, so I'm treating this as P2 and will backport the fix to JDK 25.
>> 
>> @shipilev Since you worked on [JDK-8343056](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8343056), could you please take a look at this?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tobias
>
> Tobias Hartmann has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Improved assert message

Marked as reviewed by shade (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25751#pullrequestreview-2920889686


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