SecurityException in AnnotationInvocationHandler.getMemberMethods

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Thu Oct 16 19:46:05 UTC 2008


Hi all,

This is a bug report with fix.
Joe Darcy, please file a bug and review this change,
and perhaps provide a small test case (it is impractical
to share the test we have at Google).

Description:

sun/reflect/annotation/AnnotationInvocationHandler.java.getMemberMethods
might throw if there is a security manager that does not allow
getDeclaredMethods.

The author of this code (Josh Bloch) confirms that the intent was for the
doPrivileged block in this method to prevent security exceptions.
The methods cannot escape to untrusted code.

Evaluation:

Yes.  Fix provided courtesy of Toby Reyelts and Josh Bloch at Google.

# HG changeset patch
# User martin
# Date 1224185752 25200
# Node ID 68730f05449cd4f39ce1cb82adc6c4e57f87554f
# Parent  214ebdcf7252d4862449fe0ae295e6c60a127315
SecurityException in AnnotationInvocationHandler.getMemberMethods
Summary: Move call to getDeclaredMethods inside doPrivileged
Reviewed-by:
Contributed-by: jjb at google.com

diff --git a/src/share/classes/sun/reflect/annotation/AnnotationInvocationHandler.java
b/src/share/classes/sun/reflect/annotation/AnnotationInvocationHandler.java
--- a/src/share/classes/sun/reflect/annotation/AnnotationInvocationHandler.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/sun/reflect/annotation/AnnotationInvocationHandler.java
@@ -272,14 +272,14 @@
      */
     private Method[] getMemberMethods() {
         if (memberMethods == null) {
-            final Method[] mm = type.getDeclaredMethods();
-            AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction<Void>() {
-                public Void run() {
-                    AccessibleObject.setAccessible(mm, true);
-                    return null;
-                }
-            });
-            memberMethods = mm;
+            memberMethods = AccessController.doPrivileged(
+                new PrivilegedAction<Method[]>() {
+                    public Method[] run() {
+                        final Method[] mm = type.getDeclaredMethods();
+                        AccessibleObject.setAccessible(mm, true);
+                        return mm;
+                    }
+                });
         }
         return memberMethods;
     }



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