On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 04:24:15 GMT, Ioi Lam <ik...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> `JvmtiEnv::SetSystemProperty` eventually calls `PathString::set_value` in 
>> arguments.cpp, which aborts the VM when it fails to allocate a string copy 
>> of the property value.
>> 
>> 
>> bool PathString::set_value(const char *value) {
>>   if (_value != NULL) {
>>     FreeHeap(_value);
>>   }
>>   _value = AllocateHeap(strlen(value)+1, mtArguments   );
>>   // should pass AllocFailStrategy::RETURN_NULL -----^
>>   assert(_value != NULL, "Unable to allocate space for new path value");
>> 
>> 
>> This should be fixed so that `JvmtiEnv::SetSystemProperty` can return 
>> `JVMTI_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY` in case of OOM. See 
>> https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/specs/jvmti.html#SetSystemProperty
>
> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit 
> since the last revision:
> 
>   @dholmes-ora comments: simplify the changes

Hi Ioi,
The fix looks good to me. I leave the decision about is_readable/readable to 
you and David. I have a very little preference to is_* variant for consistency 
with other places in HopSpot I'm aware off.
Thank you a lot for taking care about this!
-Serguei

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Marked as reviewed by sspitsyn (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7981

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