RFR: 8368124: Show useful thread names in ASAN reports [v2]

Thomas Stuefe stuefe at openjdk.org
Sat Sep 20 07:52:58 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: 
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> 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)

Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:

  windows build error

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27395/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27395/files/5c719128..68244fc0

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27395&range=01
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27395&range=00-01

  Stats: 1 line in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 1 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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