RFR: 8365526: Crash with null Symbol passed to SystemDictionary::resolve_or_null [v5]

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:28:56 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The reason it's like this is that the message will leak if it's not added.
>
> How does it leak - it originates from a stringStream that will go out of scope???

Both of the callers in InstanceKlass::nest_host() add the error from a C heap allocated string:


        const char* msg = ss.as_string(true /* on C-heap */);
        constantPoolHandle cph(THREAD, constants());
        SystemDictionary::add_nest_host_error(cph, _nest_host_index, msg);

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28438#discussion_r2564983902