RFR: 8365526: Crash with null Symbol passed to SystemDictionary::resolve_or_null [v5]
Coleen Phillimore
coleenp at openjdk.org
Mon Nov 24 18:40:22 UTC 2025
> The vm was crashing because the constant pool couldn't find the resolution error in the ResolutionErrorEntry error field.
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> There are two uses of ResolutionErrorEntry in the ResolutionErrorTable. The key to this table is {ConstantPool, cp-index}. In this crash, multiple threads were racing to record nest_host_errors in the case where resolution failed. In this case, there was already a ResolutionErrorEntry in the table for the constant pool resolution failure. In the 'if' case of add_nest_host_error we check to see if there's already a nest_host_error assuming it's the same error, then the 'else' case was unconditionally adding a ResolutionErrorEntry with just the nest host message. Calling HashTable::put() with this entry with just the nest host message, was overwriting the entry with the constant pool resolution error, ie. the other fields. The crash happened in ConstantPool::throw_resolution_error() because the error field was overwritten (and leaked too).
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> Add a null check before calling ResolutionErrorEntry add entry. Also added an assert that we only add a resolution error for nest host errors in the case of success since in the case of failure there will always already be a ResolutionErrorEntry for the failing constant pool and cp index and we don't want to overwrite that again.
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> Tested with submitted reproducer and tier1-4.
Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
Use put_when_absent and add an assert that the message is the same.
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28438/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28438/files/c959cfe7..a0c53929
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28438&range=04
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28438&range=03-04
Stats: 5 lines in 2 files changed: 1 ins; 2 del; 2 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28438.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/28438/head:pull/28438
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28438
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