[jdk18] RFR: 8272058: 25 Null pointer dereference defect groups in 4 files

Wed Dec 22 18:53:22 UTC 2021

On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:43:36 GMT, Gerard Ziemski <gziemski at openjdk.org> wrote:

> As long as parfait doesn't complain here - I didn't see where we checked for NULL
> explicitly in this case. I assume that parfait skips the ASSERT parts?

Parfait does not complain anymore. The key about this call is that we don't de-reference
the return value from `target_addr_for_insn_allow_null_ret`. So we allow nullptr to be
returned, but we don't use it.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk18/pull/51