On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:13:16 GMT, Timofei <[email protected]> wrote:

>> FollowReferences function has unreachable code. The null check was 
>> incorrectly applied to the klass variable inside a block where klass is 
>> already guaranteed to be non-null. Because of this, the check was always 
>> false, and the extracted internal Klass* pointer (k) was left unchecked, 
>> which could lead to a null pointer dereference.
>> 
>> Since k_mirror is checked for null and primitive types earlier in the 
>> function, java_lang_Class::as_Klass(k_mirror) is guaranteed to return a 
>> non-null Klass* pointer. Therefore, the typo'd dead code is removed and 
>> replaced with an assert to uphold this invariant.
>> 
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>
> Timofei has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Add assert in place of the unreachable code in JvmtiEnv::FollowReferences
>  - Delete regression test

Ok

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Marked as reviewed by asemenov (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/32253#pullrequestreview-4968378955

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