RFR(S) 8160987: JDWP ClassType.InvokeMethod doesn't validate class

Daniel D. Daugherty daniel.daugherty at oracle.com
Thu Sep 15 19:37:09 UTC 2016


On 9/15/16 12:10 PM, harold seigel wrote:
> (Adding hotspot-runtime)
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for looking at this.
>
> I could pass NULL instead of clazz to ToReflectMethod() to ensure that 
> the method object isn't being obtained from clazz.

I don't think that would be a JNI spec compliant use of the
JNI ToReflectedMethod() function. That would be relying on
the fact that HotSpot doesn't use the clazz parameter to
convert {clazz,jmethodID} => method_object.

Sorry... again...

Dan


>
> Harold
>
>
> On 9/15/2016 1:09 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
>> On 9/15/16 9:31 AM, harold seigel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please review this small fix for JDK-8160987.  The JDWP 
>>> InvokeStatic() method was depending on the JNI function that it 
>>> called to enforce the requirement that the specified method must be 
>>> a member of the specified class or one of its super classes. But, 
>>> JNI does not enforce this requirement.  This fix adds code to JDWP 
>>> to do its own check that the specified method is a member of the 
>>> specified class or one of its super classes.
>>>
>>> JBS Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8160987
>>>
>>> Open webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_8160987/
>>
>> src/jdk.jdwp.agent/share/native/libjdwp/invoker.c
>>     Sorry I didn't think of this comment during the pre-review...
>>
>>     The only "strange" part of this fix is:
>>
>>     L374:     /* Get the method object from the method's jmethodID. */
>>     L375:     method_object = JNI_FUNC_PTR(env,ToReflectedMethod)(env,
>>     L376: clazz,
>>     L377: method,
>>     L378: JNI_TRUE /* isStatic */);
>>     L379:     if (method_object == NULL) {
>>     L380:         return JVMTI_ERROR_NONE; /* Bad jmethodID ? This 
>> will be handled elsewhere */
>>     L381:     }
>>
>>     Here we are using parameter 'clazz' to find the method_object for
>>     parameter 'method' so that we can validate that 'clazz' refers to
>>     method's class or superclass.
>>
>>     When a bogus 'clazz' value is passed in by a JCK test, the only
>>     reason that JNI ToReflectedMethod() can still find the right
>>     method_object is that our (HotSpot) implementation of JNI
>>     ToReflectedMethod() doesn't really require the 'clazz' parameter
>>     to find the right method_object. So the 'method_object' that we
>>     return is the real one which has a 'clazz' field that doesn't
>>     match the 'clazz' parameter.
>>
>>     Wow does that twist your head around or what?
>>
>>     So we're trusting JNI ToReflectedMethod() to return the right
>>     method_object when we give it a potentially bad 'clazz' value.
>>
>>     So should we use JNI FromReflectedMethod() to convert the
>>     method_object back into a jmethodID and verify that jmethodID
>>     matches the one that we passed to check_methodClass()?
>>
>> I might be too paranoid here so feel free to say that enough is
>> enough with this fix.
>>
>> Thumbs up!
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The fix was tested with the two failing JCK vm/jdwp tests listed in 
>>> the bug, the JCK Lang, VM, and API tests, the hotspot JTReg tests, 
>>> the java/lang, java/util and other JTReg tests, the co-located and 
>>> non-colocated NSK tests, and with the RBT Tier2 tests.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Harold
>>>
>>
>



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