Integrated: 8258077: Using -Xcheck:jni can lead to a double-free after JDK-8193234

David Holmes dholmes at openjdk.java.net
Fri Jan 8 04:14:56 UTC 2021


On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:45:53 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The fix in JDK-8193234 had an unintended consequence for the Release<X>ArrayElements API, which is now fixed in this issue. 
> 
> I'd like to thank Mauro Lacy and Dmitry Timofeev for raising, analysing and discussing this issue. You can follow the thread here:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2020-December/047248.html
> 
> Although the fix itself is very basic I found a couple of other issues along the way, so I have staged the commits as follows for ease of understanding:
> 
> Step 1: added a regression test for the current double-free problem
> Step 2: Only try to print the GuardedMemory info in debug builds as it can lead to secondary crashes
> Step 3: Fix incorrect function names in the error messages and cleanup formatting
> Step 4: Revert the change from JDK-8193234
> Step 5: Add the memory-leak test from JDK-8193234 as a manual test
> Step 6: Fix the JNI_COMMIT memory leak only for the case of ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical
> 
> Finally I had to tweak the test to fix a nativepath problem. 
> 
> Testing:
>  - tiers 1-4 (tier 4 includes the test run with -Xcheck:jni)
>  - local testing of the new tests
> 
> Thanks,
> David

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 712014c5
Author:    David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/712014c5
Stats:     322 lines in 5 files changed: 303 ins; 6 del; 13 mod

8258077: Using -Xcheck:jni can lead to a double-free after JDK-8193234

Reviewed-by: dcubed, hseigel

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1816


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