From f19f21169ef024a722a7c52ba547bf015120e8c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Issac <issac.garcia@siren.io>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 16:40:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: does not break class loading if direct buffer allocator
 is not available

---
 .../main/java/org/apache/arrow/memory/util/MemoryUtil.java    | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/memory/memory-core/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/memory/util/MemoryUtil.java b/memory/memory-core/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/memory/util/MemoryUtil.java
index 91bd7cd905..7024e2e343 100644
--- a/memory/memory-core/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/memory/util/MemoryUtil.java
+++ b/memory/memory-core/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/memory/util/MemoryUtil.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException;
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.ByteOrder;
@@ -109,6 +110,9 @@ public Object run() {
                     } catch (SecurityException e) {
                       logger.debug("Cannot get constructor for direct buffer allocation", e);
                       return e;
+                    } catch (InaccessibleObjectException e) {
+                      logger.debug("Cannot get constructor for direct buffer allocation", e);
+                      return e;
                     }
                   }
                 });