[jdk17u-dev] Withdrawn: 8294509: The sign extension bug applies to 'public static int[] convertSeedBytesToInts(byte[] seed, int n, int z)' in RandomSupport

[Daniel Huang]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:33:20 GMT, Daniel Huang <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Backport for RandomSupport issue. There is a loss of information when using convertSeedBytesToLongs() 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.
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> Clean backport, ran GHA sanity checks and locally tested tier1, tier2.

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/3693