[jdk21u-dev] RFR: 8320570: NegativeArraySizeException decoding >1G UTF8 bytes with non-ascii characters

[Sonia Zaldana Calles]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 19:02:47 GMT, Sonia Zaldana Calles <szaldana at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all, 
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> This pull request contains a backport of commit [82796bdebbf56b98ec97a6d572ed68c2842f60c6](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/82796bdebbf56b98ec97a6d572ed68c2842f60c6) from the [openjdk/jdk](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk) repository. 
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> Note, patch is not clean. 
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> The only difference between the original commit and this backport is the variable name ```utf16``` [(original commit)](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/String.java#L595) vs ```buf``` [(jdk21u state)](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk21u-dev/blob/master/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/String.java#L577). I coalesced those differences by keeping the ```buf``` variable name for jdk21u.
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> Testing: Was able to verify behaviour with reproducer and added test case passes. 
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> Thanks!

GHA failure: Unrelated Risk-V build issue.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk21u-dev/pull/332#issuecomment-1980995778