Suggested fix for JDK-4724038 (Add unmap method to MappedByteBuffer)
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Sep 8 12:07:29 UTC 2015
On 08/09/2015 09:58, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> HI Mike,
>
> This is fundamentally about *integrity* of the runtime. It follows there are security implications, but it’s still fundamentally an integrity issue and guarding an unsafe operation with a Security Manager is unfortunately an insufficient solution.
>
> Paul.
>
Right, and just to add that there has been many attempts over the years
to find solutions to this issue. I think the closest was atomimcally
remapping but that wasn't feasible on all platforms and also didn't free
up the address space in a timely manner.
On the security manager suggestion then one of the concerns from a few
years ago is that trusted code might unmap while untrusted code has a
reference to the buffer.
There have been attempts using redirection too but there was always
performance concerns. It also gets complicated with view buffers.
-Alan
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