--- old/src/share/vm/memory/allocation.cpp	Wed May 28 02:37:02 2014
+++ new/src/share/vm/memory/allocation.cpp	Wed May 28 02:37:00 2014
@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@
   _chunk = new (alloc_failmode, len) Chunk(len);
 
   if (_chunk == NULL) {
+    _chunk = k;                 // restore the value of _chunk
     return NULL;
   }
   if (k) k->set_next(_chunk);   // Append new chunk to end of linked list