RFR: 8207025: JvmtiEnv::SetSystemProperty() does not handle OOM [v3]

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 04:24:15 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> `JvmtiEnv::SetSystemProperty` eventually calls `PathString::set_value` in arguments.cpp, which aborts the VM when it fails to allocate a string copy of the property value.
>> 
>> 
>> bool PathString::set_value(const char *value) {
>>   if (_value != NULL) {
>>     FreeHeap(_value);
>>   }
>>   _value = AllocateHeap(strlen(value)+1, mtArguments   );
>>   // should pass AllocFailStrategy::RETURN_NULL -----^
>>   assert(_value != NULL, "Unable to allocate space for new path value");
>> 
>> 
>> This should be fixed so that `JvmtiEnv::SetSystemProperty` can return `JVMTI_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY` in case of OOM. See https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/specs/jvmti.html#SetSystemProperty
>
> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   @dholmes-ora comments: simplify the changes

On the JVMTI side this looks good and corrects an oversight.

The SystemProperty API changes are not quite what I expected but I see why you did them.

Thanks,
David

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7981