On Wed, 7 May 2025 11:57:02 GMT, Aggelos Biboudis <abimpou...@openjdk.org>
wrote:
> While the compiler does not allow invalid queries to flow into
> `SwitchBootstraps:typeSwitch`, a library user could do that and `typeSwitch`
> does not prevent such usage pattern errors resulting in erroneous evaluation.
>
> For example this is not valid Java (and protected) by javac:
>
>
> byte b = 1;
> switch (b) {
> case String s -> System.out.println("How did we get here? byte is " +
> s.getClass());
> }
>
>
> but this is a valid call (and not protected):
>
>
> CallSite shortSwitch = SwitchBootstraps.typeSwitch(
> MethodHandles.lookup(),
> "",
> MethodType.methodType(int.class, short.class, int.class), // models
> (short, int) -> int
> String.class);
>
>
> The `SwitchBootstraps.typeSwitch` returns wrong result since the code was
> reasoning erroneously that this pair was unconditionally exact.
>
> This PR proposes to add the safety check in unconditional exactness which
> will return false in erroneous pairs and then the actual check will be
> delegated to `instanceof`. For the case of erroneous pairs with primitive
> `boolean`s there is a check in the beginning of the type switch skeleton.
This pull request has now been integrated.
Changeset: c0665efd
Author: Aggelos Biboudis <abimpou...@openjdk.org>
URL:
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/c0665efd4f7f43c567393570ba6872838debd77f
Stats: 43 lines in 3 files changed: 27 ins; 4 del; 12 mod
8354323: Safeguard SwitchBootstraps.typeSwitch when used outside the compiler
Reviewed-by: jlahoda, liach
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25090
