This bug affects all versions of HotSpot from JDK6 and above after JDK-6300884.

A crash is reported against JDK6u32 for segfaulting while printing the Java stacks. Its hs_err file is like:

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f6bdf6b5982, pid=20936, tid=1110554976
#
# JRE version: 6.0_32-b05
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.7-b02 mixed mode linux-amd64 )
# Problematic frame:
# V [libjvm.so+0x62c982] Klass::external_name() const+0x12
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

--------------- T H R E A D ---------------

Current thread (0x00000000402a1800): VMThread [stack: 0x000000004221b000,0x000000004231c000] [id=20990]

siginfo:si_signo=SIGSEGV: si_errno=0, si_code=1 (SEGV_MAPERR), si_addr=0x0000000000000018

Registers:
RAX=0x0000000000000000, RBX=0x00007f6bd6972060, RCX=0x00007f6bdfb0e790, RDX=0x0000000000000010
RSP=0x000000004231a790, RBP=0x000000004231a7e0, RSI=0x0000000000000010, RDI=0x0000000000000010
R8 =0x000000000000001f, R9 =0x0000000000000008, R10=0x0000000000000007, R11=0x00007f6bdfb29320
R12=0x00000000402a1d60, R13=0x0000000000000010, R14=0x00007f6bdf961cf2, R15=0x0000000040260020
RIP=0x00007f6bdf6b5982, EFLAGS=0x0000000000010206, CSGSFS=0x0000000000000033, ERR=0x0000000000000004
  TRAPNO=0x000000000000000e

Top of Stack: (sp=0x000000004231a790)
0x000000004231a790: 0000000040260058 0000000040260028
0x000000004231a7a0: 00007f5752022e20 00007f5752022e40
0x000000004231a7b0: 00007f5752022ec0 00007f6bdfc80d60
0x000000004231a7c0: 00007f6bd6972060 00000000402a1d60
0x000000004231a7d0: 0000000000000000 00007f6bdf961cf2
0x000000004231a7e0: 000000004231a860 00007f6bdf8e04c1
0x000000004231a7f0: 010000004231a810 00007f5752022e70
0x000000004231a800: 0000000000000000 000000004352ce90
0x000000004231a810: 00000000402a0d60 000000004025ffd0
0x000000004231a820: 0000000040260380 00000000402603b8
0x000000004231a830: 0000000040260380 00007f6bdfb2cf10
0x000000004231a840: 0000000040260020 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a850: 0000000000000000 000000004352ce90
0x000000004231a860: 000000004231abe0 00007f6bdf8a614d
0x000000004231a870: 0000000000000000 000000004231ab60
0x000000004231a880: 000000004382f850 00007f6bdbc7427e
0x000000004231a890: 00007f6bdbc74210 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a8a0: 0000000000000000 000000004382f850
0x000000004231a8b0: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a8c0: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a8d0: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a8e0: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a8f0: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a900: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a910: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a920: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a930: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a940: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a950: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a960: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a970: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x000000004231a980: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000

Instructions: (pc=0x00007f6bdf6b5982)
0x00007f6bdf6b5962: 83 ef 10 48 89 e5 ff d6 c9 c3 66 66 66 90 55 48
0x00007f6bdf6b5972: 89 e5 41 56 41 55 49 89 fd 41 54 53 48 83 ec 30
0x00007f6bdf6b5982: 8b 47 08 85 c0 0f 8e f3 00 00 00 48 83 bf f8 00
0x00007f6bdf6b5992: 00 00 00 0f 84 e5 00 00 00 48 8b 7f 60 48 8b 17

Register to memory mapping:

RAX=0x0000000000000000 is an unknown value
RBX=0x00007f6bd6972060 is an oop
java.lang.Class
 - klass: 'java/lang/Class'
RCX=0x00007f6bdfb0e790: <offset 0xa85790> in /home/work/hadoop-v2/java6/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so at 0x00007f6bdf089000
RDX=0x0000000000000010 is an unknown value
RSP=0x000000004231a790 is an unknown value
RBP=0x000000004231a7e0 is an unknown value
RSI=0x0000000000000010 is an unknown value
RDI=0x0000000000000010 is an unknown value
R8 =0x000000000000001f is an unknown value
R9 =0x0000000000000008 is an unknown value
R10=0x0000000000000007 is an unknown value
R11=0x00007f6bdfb29320: <offset 0xaa0320> in /home/work/hadoop-v2/java6/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so at 0x00007f6bdf089000
R12=0x00000000402a1d60 is an unknown value
R13=0x0000000000000010 is an unknown value
R14=0x00007f6bdf961cf2: <offset 0x8d8cf2> in /home/work/hadoop-v2/java6/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so at 0x00007f6bdf089000
R15=0x0000000040260020 is an unknown value


Stack: [0x000000004221b000,0x000000004231c000], sp=0x000000004231a790, free space=1021k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
V [libjvm.so+0x62c982] Klass::external_name() const+0x12
V [libjvm.so+0x8574c1] javaVFrame::print_lock_info_on(outputStream*, int)+0x221
V [libjvm.so+0x81d14d] JavaThread::print_stack_on(outputStream*)+0x1dd
V [libjvm.so+0x81fb7e] Threads::print_on(outputStream*, bool, bool, bool)+0x21e
V [libjvm.so+0x86e5d8] VM_PrintThreads::doit()+0x18
V [libjvm.so+0x86e29a] VM_Operation::evaluate()+0x4a
V [libjvm.so+0x86d862] VMThread::evaluate_operation(VM_Operation*)+0x82
V [libjvm.so+0x86dad8] VMThread::loop()+0x198
V [libjvm.so+0x86d5de] VMThread::run()+0x6e
V [libjvm.so+0x71170f] java_start(Thread*)+0x13f

VM_Operation (0x000000004352ce20): PrintThreads, mode: safepoint, requested by thread 0x00007f575de76000


On the jstack side, the output is like:

Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Premature EOF
        at sun.tools.attach.HotSpotVirtualMachine.readInt(HotSpotVirtualMachine.java:226)
        at sun.tools.attach.LinuxVirtualMachine.execute(LinuxVirtualMachine.java:175)
        at sun.tools.attach.HotSpotVirtualMachine.executeCommand(HotSpotVirtualMachine.java:195)
        at sun.tools.attach.HotSpotVirtualMachine.remoteDataDump(HotSpotVirtualMachine.java:156)
        at sun.tools.jstack.JStack.runThreadDump(JStack.java:159)
        at sun.tools.jstack.JStack.main(JStack.java:94)


It it caused by print_locked_object_class_name() blindly casting a java.lang.Class oop to its Klass and getting the external name from there. Java mirrors for primitive types do not have a backing Klass, so we should special case for them here.

A proposed fix for current JDK9:


$ hg diff
diff -r 18415052d89c src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.cpp
--- a/src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.cpp Tue Jun 24 12:27:51 2014 -0700
+++ b/src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.cpp Thu Jun 26 16:45:58 2014 -0700
@@ -791,6 +791,24 @@
 }
 
 
+// Returns the Java name for this Java mirror (Resource allocated)
+// See Klass::external_name().
+// For primitive type Java mirrors, its type name is returned.
+const char* java_lang_Class::as_external_name(oop java_class) {
+ assert(java_lang_Class::is_instance(java_class), "must be a Class object");
+ const char* name = NULL;
+ if (is_primitive(java_class)) {
+ name = type2name(primitive_type(java_class));
+ } else {
+ name = as_Klass(java_class)->external_name();
+ }
+ if (name == NULL) {
+ name = "<null>";
+ }
+ return name;
+}
+
+
 Klass* java_lang_Class::array_klass(oop java_class) {
   Klass* k = ((Klass*)java_class->metadata_field(_array_klass_offset));
   assert(k == NULL || k->is_klass() && k->oop_is_array(), "should be array klass");
diff -r 18415052d89c src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.hpp
--- a/src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.hpp Tue Jun 24 12:27:51 2014 -0700
+++ b/src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.hpp Thu Jun 26 16:45:58 2014 -0700
@@ -270,7 +270,8 @@
     return result;
   }
   static Symbol* as_signature(oop java_class, bool intern_if_not_found, TRAPS);
- static void print_signature(oop java_class, outputStream *st);
+ static void print_signature(oop java_class, outputStream* st);
+ static const char* as_external_name(oop java_class);
   // Testing
   static bool is_instance(oop obj) {
     return obj != NULL && obj->klass() == SystemDictionary::Class_klass();
diff -r 18415052d89c src/share/vm/runtime/vframe.cpp
--- a/src/share/vm/runtime/vframe.cpp Tue Jun 24 12:27:51 2014 -0700
+++ b/src/share/vm/runtime/vframe.cpp Thu Jun 26 16:45:58 2014 -0700
@@ -148,8 +148,7 @@
   if (obj.not_null()) {
     st->print("\t- %s <" INTPTR_FORMAT "> ", lock_state, (address)obj());
     if (obj->klass() == SystemDictionary::Class_klass()) {
- Klass* target_klass = java_lang_Class::as_Klass(obj());
- st->print_cr("(a java.lang.Class for %s)", InstanceKlass::cast(target_klass)->external_name());
+ st->print_cr("(a java.lang.Class for %s)", java_lang_Class::as_external_name(obj()));
     } else {
       Klass* k = obj->klass();
       st->print_cr("(a %s)", k->external_name());