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
--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciEnv.cpp Wed Mar 20 06:32:49 2013 -0700
+++ b/hotspot/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()) {