RFR: 8368124: Show useful thread names in ASAN reports
Thomas Stuefe
stuefe at openjdk.org
Sat Sep 20 07:30:48 UTC 2025
On Linux, ASAN only shows some internal thread designation on reports, e.g. `T49`, which is useless.
This patch adds the ability to see the real internal JVM thread names or user-supplied Java thread names in ASAN. This makes it possible to correlate ASAN reports with hs-err file reports (if ASAN is run with `halt_on_error=0` to give us a chance to get an hs-err file) or with a thread dump done beforehand.
Note that it can only show up to 15 characters, though. Therefore, the patch tries to be smart about names that end in digits: such numbers are preserved such that the truncation happens in the middle of the name, e.g.:
`"MyAllocationWorkerThread#4411"` -> `"MyAllocat..4411"`
This latter improvement now also applies to thread names in gdb, since they are subject to the same limitation.
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Some examples from ASAN report:
Before:
WRITE of size 8 at 0x7b749d2d9190 thread T49
Now:
WRITE of size 8 at 0x7bfc2f0d8380 thread T49 (MyThread#0)
==593899==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: attempting free .. in thread T76 (MyAllocati..29)
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Commit messages:
- fix comments
- remove comment duplicates
- factor out string utility; provide tests
- be smart about thread names with numbers
- start
Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27395/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27395&range=00
Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8368124
Stats: 116 lines in 4 files changed: 112 ins; 2 del; 2 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27395.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/27395/head:pull/27395
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27395
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