JDK-8369393 : NMT: poison the malloc header and footer under ASAN build
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: hotspot
  • Sub-Component: runtime
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: In Progress
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Submitted: 2025-10-08
  • Updated: 2025-12-10
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JDK 27
27Unresolved
Related Reports
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JDK-8369022 - NMT has detected a memory corruption bug: ChunkPool
Description
Currently, NMT can detect memory corruption only at free time by checking the canary values in the header and footer. We can poison the canary parts using ASAN API to get notified(asserted) immediately after reading/writing of them.
Comments
A pull request was submitted for review. Branch: master URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28503 Date: 2025-11-26 11:05:21 +0000
26-11-2025
A pull request was submitted for review. Branch: master URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27685 Date: 2025-10-08 08:40:15 +0000
08-10-2025