RFR: 8372988: Test runtime/Nestmates/membership/TestNestHostErrorWithMultiThread.java failed: Unexpected interrupt

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:15:09 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> In the fix for JDK-8365526 we changed the `set_nest_host_error` code so that we would overwrite the message in the resolution error table, and free the previous copy of the message (the messages will always be the same). This was the wrong thing to do as the message could be in-use at the time it was freed, leading to either a missing message, or an assertion failure when we checked the messages for UTF8 validity.
> 
> The fix is to simply only ever set the message once (freeing it only when the entry is removed from the table).
> 
> Testing:
>  - TestNestHostErrorWithMultiThread.java with an augmented VM that inserts a delay that helped trigger the bug
>  - tiers 1-3 sanity
> 
> Thanks

src/hotspot/share/classfile/systemDictionary.cpp line 1883:

> 1881:       else {
> 1882:         assert(strcmp(nhe, message) == 0, "New message %s, differs from original %s", message, nhe);
> 1883:       }

The caller allocates this message so the caller should free it but that would require passing up that we actually installed the message.  We could keep this leak temporarily until https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8372373 is fixed to resource allocate the message.  Or add a FREE_C_HEAP_ARRAY here even though it's not the best place for it?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28817#discussion_r2619702033