There are several occurrences that all share the symptom:

test jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.test.MethodHandleAccessProviderTest.testResolveInvokeBasicTarget(jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.HotSpotObjectConstantImpl@6da249dc, true, "invokeVirtual"): failure
java.lang.NullPointerException
at jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.HotSpotMethodHandleAccessProvider.getTargetMethod(jdk.vm.ci@9-internal/HotSpotMethodHandleAccessProvider.java:157)
at jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.HotSpotMethodHandleAccessProvider.resolveInvokeBasicTarget(jdk.vm.ci@9-internal/HotSpotMethodHandleAccessProvider.java:145)
at jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.test.MethodHandleAccessProviderTest.testResolveInvokeBasicTarget(MethodHandleAccessProviderTest.java:73)
at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(java.base@9-internal/Native Method)
at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(java.base@9-internal/NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(java.base@9-internal/DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(java.base@9-internal/Method.java:533)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:84)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:714)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:901)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1231)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:127)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:111)
at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:767)
at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:617)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:334)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:329)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:291)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:240)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1224)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1149)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1057)
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.TestNGAction$TestNGRunner.main(TestNGAction.java:220)
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.TestNGAction$TestNGRunner.main(TestNGAction.java:184)
at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(java.base@9-internal/Native Method)
at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(java.base@9-internal/NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(java.base@9-internal/DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(java.base@9-internal/Method.java:533)
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.agent.MainWrapper$MainThread.run(MainWrapper.java:110)
at java.lang.Thread.run(java.base@9-internal/Thread.java:843)

The issue occurs since the fix for JDK-8160717 was pushed.