From 8609ea55acdcc203408f58f7bf96ea9228aef613 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harold Seigel <hseigel@openjdk.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 12:39:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 8273342: Null pointer dereference in classFileParser.cpp:2817

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
---
 src/hotspot/share/runtime/fieldDescriptor.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/runtime/fieldDescriptor.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/runtime/fieldDescriptor.cpp
index 83f31e05085..4e07a456bb0 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/share/runtime/fieldDescriptor.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/runtime/fieldDescriptor.cpp
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Symbol* fieldDescriptor::generic_signature() const {
     }
   }
   assert(false, "should never happen");
-  return NULL;
+  return vmSymbols::void_signature(); // return a default value (for code analyzers)
 }
 
 bool fieldDescriptor::is_trusted_final() const {