RFR: 8299665: /proc/self/stat parsing in libmanagement broken by execname with spaces

[Alex Menkov]

On Tue, 23 May 2023 20:54:42 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Code that parses /proc/self/stat may be broken if the executable name contains spaces.
> 
> We have code that does this correctly, and code that does not.
> UnixOperatingSystem.c is Linux-specific OS code, and has vread_statdata which correctly uses strrchr to find the last ) and parses from there.
> 
> OperatingSystemImpl.c the generic, not Linux-specific code, is not OK, as Java_com_sun_management_internal_OperatingSystemImpl_getCommittedVirtualMemorySize0 has a problematic fscanf call. 
> But the problematic fscanf call is Linux-specific: we use ifdef to create OS-specific implementations.
> 
> 
> Need to change the fscanf of /proc/self/stat to do the same buffered read as read_ticks in UnixOperatingSystem.c (the Linux-specific code), with strrchr to read past the ) of the execname.
> 
> Moving the actually-Linux-specific getCommittedVirtualMemorySize0 to be with the other Linux-specific code means it can just use the existing method for accessing /proc/self/stat.
> 
> It does however call throw_internal_error, which is then not accessible.  So that function can be shared in the libmanagement_ext.h/.c for both uses.
> 
> The call to throw_internal_error is working: if I change the code to fail, it reports a java.lang.InternalError as it would before.
> 
> Existing tests still pass: 
> i.e. test/jdk/com/sun/management/OperatingSystemMXBean/GetCommittedVirtualMemorySize.java

Marked as reviewed by amenkov (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14107#pullrequestreview-1442935250