# HG changeset patch # User morris # Date 1363786564 25200 # Node ID 2dec1d9bfbe15aafe2d10387ff5662eff01f6e10 # Parent 41340544e18299a4c9a02e8969035b1e42373636 8009565: [partfait] Null pointer deference in hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciEnv.cpp Summary: add guarantee() to get_instance_klass_for_declared_method_holder() Reviewed-by: kvn diff -r 41340544e182 -r 2dec1d9bfbe1 src/share/vm/ci/ciEnv.cpp --- a/src/share/vm/ci/ciEnv.cpp Wed Mar 20 06:32:49 2013 -0700 +++ b/src/share/vm/ci/ciEnv.cpp Wed Mar 20 06:36:04 2013 -0700 @@ -802,6 +802,7 @@ // require checks to make sure the expected type was found. Given that this // only occurs for clone() the more extensive fix seems like overkill so // instead we simply smear the array type into Object. + guarantee(method_holder != NULL, "no method holder"); if (method_holder->is_instance_klass()) { return method_holder->as_instance_klass(); } else if (method_holder->is_array_klass()) {