Java crashes in MemberNameTable::add_member_name in hs_err_pid

Solution Unverified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Java 1.7

Issue

Java crashes in MemberNameTable::add_member_name. For example:

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00002ba51e8dba31, pid=14009, tid=47989937366784
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_65-b17) (build 1.7.0_65-b17)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (24.65-b04 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# V  [libjvm.so+0x7bea31]  MemberNameTable::add_member_name(int, _jobject*)+0x11

And the native stack looks like:

Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
V  [libjvm.so+0x7bea31]  MemberNameTable::add_member_name(int, _jobject*)+0x11
V  [libjvm.so+0x5b2f4a]  instanceKlass::add_member_name(int, Handle)+0x5a
V  [libjvm.so+0x7bf840]  MethodHandles::init_method_MemberName(Handle, methodOopDesc*, bool, KlassHandle)+0xe0
V  [libjvm.so+0x7c3d10]  MethodHandles::init_method_MemberName(Handle, CallInfo&, Thread*)+0x110
V  [libjvm.so+0x7c43be]  MethodHandles::resolve_MemberName(Handle, KlassHandle, Thread*)+0x5ce
V  [libjvm.so+0x7c4984]  MHN_resolve_Mem+0x1c4
J 7590  java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleNatives.resolve(Ljava/lang/invoke/MemberName;Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/lang/invoke/MemberName; (0 bytes) @ 0x00002ba52b960175 [0x00002ba52b9600a0+0xd5]

Resolution

Upgrade to at least Java 1.7u85

Root Cause

<Content from bugs.java.com is not included.http://bugs.java.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8042235>
Backport to 1.7u85: <Content from bugs.java.com is not included.http://bugs.java.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8072235>

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