Java – About arrays allocated in JNI

I wrote a function in Android JNI that allocates a Java array. However, if this function is called continuously from Java, an error [*Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV)] occurs.

C++

static jbyteArray buffer = NULL;
static int cbuflen = 0;
jbyteArray Java_com_sample_buffer_Buffer_updateBuffer(JNIEnv* env, jobject thiz, jlong handle, jint buflen)
{
    if(buflen > cbuflen){
        if(buffer != NULL) env->DeleteLocalRef(buffer);
        buffer = env->NewByteArray(buflen);
        cbuflen = buflen;
    }
    return buffer;
}

Java

byte[] buf = conv.updateBuffer(buflen);

Shouldn’t I use this way? Or what are the measures?

If you want to keep jobjects (such as jbyteArray) between JNI calls, you need to set it to GlobalRef:

jbyteArray temp_buffer = env->NewByteArray(buflen);
buffer = (jbyteArray)env->NewGlobalRef(temp_buffer);

Then remember to delete the object to free up memory:

env->DeleteGlobalRef(buffer);