Integrated: 8368522: (fs) BasicFileAttributes Linux musl 1.2.5 incompatibility with statx

Aleksei Voitylov avoitylov at openjdk.org
Fri Oct 10 13:35:53 UTC 2025


On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 12:54:21 GMT, Aleksei Voitylov <avoitylov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This cleanup replaces #ifdefs with a standard #include <stdint.h>. Using standard types is less prone to errors.
> 
> JDK-8368522 was reported on ARM32 with musl libc, which is not a supported configuration, but I still believe this code cleanup is worth it.
> 
> After the introduction of statx with musl 1.2.5, a buffer overflow issue with statx() call handling started happening on ARM32. The root cause is incorrect size of __uint64_t type definition in the JDK for musl libc, where it was defined as 4 bytes (unsigned long int) for 32-bit systems instead of 8 bytes (unsigned long long).
> 
> The mismatch between JDK's my_statx structure and kernel's statx structure causes stack corruption when statx() writes beyond the statx_buf boundaries, overwriting adjacent variables, including the 'attrs' argument that was later passed to copy_statx_attributes() function and caused a segfault there.
> 
> Built and ran jtreg on standard OpenJDK platforms with no regressions, including the altered test.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 5594d6bc
Author:    Aleksei Voitylov <avoitylov at openjdk.org>
Committer: Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/5594d6bc88bbe39e6ebfd02fb9c37cf40b8d0479
Stats:     51 lines in 2 files changed: 2 ins; 13 del; 36 mod

8368522: (fs) BasicFileAttributes Linux musl 1.2.5 incompatibility with statx

Reviewed-by: sgehwolf, bpb

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27674


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