diff -r a9938374a9f4 -r 2d3e99a72541 src/hotspot/share/runtime/thread.cpp
--- a/src/hotspot/share/runtime/thread.cpp	Wed Jun 27 16:57:21 2018 -0700
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/runtime/thread.cpp	Wed Jun 27 17:02:41 2018 -0700
@@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@
 #if INCLUDE_JVMCI
   _pending_monitorenter = false;
   _pending_deoptimization = -1;
-  _pending_failed_speculation = NULL;
+  _pending_failed_speculation = 0;
   _pending_transfer_to_interpreter = false;
   _adjusting_comp_level = false;
   _jvmci._alternate_call_target = NULL;
@@ -2770,8 +2770,6 @@
   // Traverse the GCHandles
   Thread::oops_do(f, cf);
 
-  JVMCI_ONLY(f->do_oop((oop*)&_pending_failed_speculation);)
-
   assert((!has_last_Java_frame() && java_call_counter() == 0) ||
          (has_last_Java_frame() && java_call_counter() > 0), "wrong java_sp info!");