8353329: Small memory leak when create GrowableArray with initial size 0

Reviewed-by: zgu
Backport-of: b80b04d77afdb2a808e2c7f9268d8092eb16714e

Author: SendaoYan

src/hotspot/share/utilities/growableArray.cpp

@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ void* GrowableArrayArenaAllocator::allocate(int max, int element_size, Arena* ar
 
 void* GrowableArrayCHeapAllocator::allocate(int max, int element_size, MemTag mem_tag) {
   assert(max >= 0, "integer overflow");
+
+  if (max == 0) {
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+
   size_t byte_size = element_size * (size_t) max;
 
   // memory tag has to be specified for C heap allocation

src/hotspot/share/utilities/growableArray.hpp

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2024, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -811,10 +811,6 @@ class GrowableArrayCHeap : public GrowableArrayWithAllocator<E, GrowableArrayCHe
   STATIC_ASSERT(MT != mtNone);
 
   static E* allocate(int max, MemTag mem_tag) {
-    if (max == 0) {
-      return nullptr;
-    }
-
     return (E*)GrowableArrayCHeapAllocator::allocate(max, sizeof(E), mem_tag);
   }