FULL PRODUCT VERSION :


A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/serviceability-dev/2015-November/018231.html

# HG changeset patch
# User Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com>
# Date 1447827030 25200
# Tue Nov 17 23:10:30 2015 -0700
# Node ID ae564686e3b2797ebc4d115ce9c49aa15da964ea
# Parent 28f55851bf3890dcdaa81d64d135cf35b527b987
Skip the null pointer check before calling realloc.

"If ptr is a null pointer, realloc() shall be equivalent to malloc() for
the specified size."
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/realloc.html

Also, sizeof(char*) is more correct here than sizeof(char**), although
in practice it doesn't make a difference.

diff --git a/src/java.instrument/share/native/libinstrument/InvocationAdapter.c b/src/java.instrument/share/native/libinstrument/InvocationAdapter.c
--- a/src/java.instrument/share/native/libinstrument/InvocationAdapter.c
+++ b/src/java.instrument/share/native/libinstrument/InvocationAdapter.c
@@ -519,21 +519,17 @@ splitPathList(const char* str, int* path
     int count = 0;
     char** segments = NULL;
     char* c = (char*) str;
     while (*c != '\0') {
         while (*c == ' ') c++; /* skip leading spaces */
         if (*c == '\0') {
             break;
         }
- if (segments == NULL) {
- segments = (char**)malloc( sizeof(char**) );
- } else {
- segments = (char**)realloc( segments, (count+1)*sizeof(char**) );
- }
+ segments = (char**)realloc( segments, (count+1)*sizeof(char*) );
         jplis_assert(segments != (char**)NULL);
         segments[count++] = c;
         c = strchr(c, ' ');
         if (c == NULL) {
             break;
         }
         *c = '\0';
         c++;


REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.