Bug 1011051

Summary: Regression in EPollArrayWrapper causes NPE when fd > 64 * 1024
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Norman Maurer <nmaurer>
Component: java-1.8.0-openjdkAssignee: Deepak Bhole <dbhole>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 22CC: ahughes, dbhole, dingham, jerboaa, jvanek, mgoldman, msrb, omajid
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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 18:58:40 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Norman Maurer 2013-09-23 14:28:25 UTC 
Created attachment 801679 [details]
Patch to fix problem.

During testing netty.io with many concurrent connections one of our users reported a NullPointerException which was thrown by sun.nio.ch.EPollArrayWrapper.setUpdateEvents(...). This was observed as soon as the concurrent connection count > 64 * 1024. After more investigating I was able to find the bug in EPollArrayWrapper.setUpdateEvents(...), which is a regression introduced by the following change:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/017bd924a3c8

The problem here is that eventsHigh.get(key) will be called once the fd is > 64 * 1024. This may return "null" which is compared to KILLED (which is of type byte) and so may throw a NPE because the compare tries to unbox the return value (which is of type Byte). The regression is present in lastest openjdk8 and in openjdk7u40 and later. It seems to also affects oracle jdk 7u40. All OS'es that use epoll are affected, in my case linux (ubuntu).

Attached you find the proposed fix for openjdk8 and openjdk7 and a reproducer which can be used. The fix does two things:
* Eliminate the access to  the eventsHigh Map if "force" is true.
* Check for null before try to compare the stored events value

For more details and a reproducer see:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-dev/2013-September/002284.html
Comment 1 Norman Maurer 2013-09-23 14:32:36 UTC 
Created attachment 801680 [details]
Changeset with test-cases to fix the problem
Comment 2 Andrew John Hughes 2013-09-25 22:14:47 UTC 
Fix added to 2.4: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.4/jdk?cmd=changeset;node=bdced30f70e9
Comment 3 Deepak Bhole 2013-09-26 15:50:10 UTC 
We will fix this with the next CPU. Assigning to Jiri.
Comment 5 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 15:06:07 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22
Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 18:58:40 UTC 
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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Comment 7 Andrew John Hughes 2016-07-19 20:26:23 UTC 
This is in both OpenJDK 7 & 8 for nearly three years, so can be closed as CURRENTLRELEASE for java-1.8.0-openjdk.