[lilliput-jdk17u:lilliput] RFR: 8311866: [Lilliput/JDK17] Disallow accessing oop metadata vmStructs with +UCOH [v2]

Roman Kennke rkennke at openjdk.org
Tue Jul 11 12:54:23 UTC 2023


On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:19:47 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Allowing external tools to access e.g. `oopDesc::_metadata._klass` with `+UCOH` is error-prone. We have seen async-profiler poking into this field to resolve classes: https://github.com/async-profiler/async-profiler/blob/117594bb4d1ce61b073c8a9cea438b33f3f09c81/src/vmStructs.cpp#L158-L161
>> 
>> This hides the fields from vmStructs with +UCOH. This is the least intrusive way of achieving this I can come up with.
>> 
>> Additional testing:
>>  - [x] Eyeballing instrumented async-profiler initialization path
>>  - [x] Linux x86_64 fastdebug `serviceability/sa`, default
>>  - [x] Linux x86_64 fastdebug `serviceability/sa`, `+UCOH`
>>  - [ ] Linux x86_64 fastdebug `tier1 tier2`, default
>>  - [ ] Linux x86_64 fastdebug `tier1 tier2`, `+UCOH`
>
> Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Move fakeOopDesc

Very nice! Thank you!

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Marked as reviewed by rkennke (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/lilliput-jdk17u/pull/51#pullrequestreview-1524199246


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