JVM crash in com.sun.crypto.provider.GCTR.doFinal

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Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.x
  • Java 8

Issue

  • Our JVM crashed and the hs_err_pid shows the following crash point:
Stack: [0x00007f26593dc000,0x00007f26594dd000],  sp=0x00007f26594da250,  free space=1016k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
V  [libjvm.so+0xaaca9a]  VMError::report_and_die()+0x2ba
V  [libjvm.so+0x4f2de9]  report_fatal(char const*, int, char const*)+0x59
V  [libjvm.so+0x9ab6ba]  SharedRuntime::continuation_for_implicit_exception(JavaThread*, unsigned char*, SharedRuntime::ImplicitExceptionKind)+0x33a
V  [libjvm.so+0x91501a]  JVM_handle_linux_signal+0x48a
V  [libjvm.so+0x90b593]  signalHandler(int, siginfo*, void*)+0x43
C  [libpthread.so.0+0xf7e0]
J 25934 C2 com.sun.crypto.provider.GCTR.doFinal([BII[BI)I (130 bytes) @ 0x00007f26f44caa61 [0x00007f26f44ca800+0x261]

Resolution

  • Upgrade to the latest JDK update for a fix
  • As a workaround, you may exclude the problem methods from compilation:
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,com/sun/crypto/provider/\*.\*

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