undefect. CWE-407 — 63 sites patched across 27 ecosystems

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test/jdk/java/nio/Buffer/ReachabilityTest.java

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+
+/* @test
+ * @bug 8208362
+ * @summary Tests reachability from source to dependent direct byte buffers
+ * @run junit ReachabilityTest
+ */
+
+import java.lang.ref.Reference;
+import java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue;
+import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
+import java.nio.Buffer;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
+import java.util.function.UnaryOperator;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.fail;
+
+public class ReachabilityTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testDuplicate() {
+        testReachability(ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(16384),
+                         ByteBuffer::duplicate);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSlice() {
+        testReachability(ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(16384),
+                         ByteBuffer::slice);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testViewDuplicate() {
+        testReachability(ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(16384),
+                         (Buffer b) -> b instanceof ByteBuffer
+                                ? ((ByteBuffer) b).asIntBuffer()
+                                : b.duplicate()
+        );
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testViewSlice() {
+        testReachability(ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(16384),
+                         (Buffer b) -> b instanceof ByteBuffer
+                                       ? ((ByteBuffer) b).asIntBuffer()
+                                       : b.slice()
+        );
+    }
+
+    <T> void testReachability(T t, UnaryOperator<T> b) {
+        WeakReference<T> root = new WeakReference<>(t);
+
+        ReferenceQueue<Object> queue = new ReferenceQueue<>();
+        List<WeakReference<T>> refs = new ArrayList<>();
+        for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
+            t = b.apply(t);
+            refs.add(new WeakReference<>(t, queue));
+        }
+        t = b.apply(t);
+
+        boolean collected = false;
+        long timeoutMillis = 100L;
+        try {
+            for (int tries = 0; tries < 3 && !collected; tries++) {
+                System.gc();
+                collected = refs.stream().map(Reference::get).anyMatch(Objects::isNull);
+                if (!collected) {
+                    collected = queue.remove(timeoutMillis) != null;
+                    timeoutMillis *= 4;
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (InterruptedException unexpected) {
+            fail("unexpected InterruptedException");
+        }
+
+        // Some or all of the intermediate values must be GC'ed
+        assertTrue(collected);
+        // The root should never be GC'ed
+        assertNotNull(root.get());
+
+        Reference.reachabilityFence(t);
+    }
+}