RFR: 8340923: The class LogSelection copies uninitialized memory [v2]
Matthias Baesken
mbaesken at openjdk.org
Wed Sep 25 15:06:41 UTC 2024
On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:53:49 GMT, Johan Sjölen <jsjolen at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> The class LogSelection's custom constructor does not initialize the whole _tags array but is lacking a custom copy constructor and assignment operator. This means that any copy will copy uninitialized memory, which is undefined behavior. UBSAN has seen this happen, as reported by Matthias Baesken.
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>> For some surrounding context: Unified Logging uses a statically defined array size (`LogTag::MaxTag`) but uses the `LogTag::__NO_TAG` to signify the end of the array. Think "NULL-terminated string but log tags".
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>> We fill the whole array to avoid this issue. Specifically, we filll the remainder of the array with `LogTag::__NO_TAG`.
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> Johan Sjölen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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> Fixes
Marked as reviewed by mbaesken (Reviewer).
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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21185#pullrequestreview-2328576909
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