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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8194309

JNI handle allocation failure not reported correctly

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • P4
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 10
    • 16
    • hotspot
    • b08
    • generic
    • generic

    Description

      Failure to allocate a JNI handle (due to malloc failure) is presently reported using vm_exit_out_of_memory (when creating a new JNIHandleBlock in JNIHandles::allocate_block). That's not the behavior described in the JNI specification, which says that for out of memory failures

      - NewGlobalRef will return NULL.

      - NewLocalRef may return NULL.

      - NewWeakGlobalRef will return NULL and throw OutOfMemoryError.

      - PushLocalFrame will return a negative number and a pending OutOfMemoryError.

      Note that OutOfMemoryError doesn't really seem like the right exception for running out of system memory, but that's what the JNI spec says.

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              dholmes David Holmes
              kbarrett Kim Barrett
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