[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8294509: The sign extension bug applies to 'public static int[] convertSeedBytesToInts(byte[] seed, int n, int z)' in RandomSupport

[duke]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 16:15:48 GMT, Daniel Huang <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Backport for RandomSupport issue. There is a loss of information when using `convertSeedBytesToInts()` with a bad seed, causing a lot of the original bytes to be overwritten by 1s. The fix involves using a bitwise AND with the seed before distributing the seed bytes into the result.
> 
> Clean backport, ran GHA sanity checks and locally tested tier1, tier2. In tier2, there was 1 failure:
> `test/jdk/java/nio/channels/DatagramChannel/SendReceiveMaxSize.java`
> However, this fails on master as well.
> 
> The backport also updates the test `T8282144.java` to test for ints as well, which passes.

@dtmhuang 
Your change (at version 3b4953c80538028f3a2e808ba3afe44855830aef) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/3722#issuecomment-3057849304