RFR: 8315487: Security Providers Filter [v10]

Martin Balao mbalao at openjdk.org
Wed Nov 20 18:40:51 UTC 2024


> In addition to the goals, scope, motivation, specification and requirement notes in [JDK-8315487](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8315487), we would like to describe the most relevant decisions taken during the implementation of this enhancement. These notes are organized by feature, may encompass more than one file or code segment, and are aimed to provide a high-level view of this PR.
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> ## ProvidersFilter
> 
> ### Filter construction (parser)
> 
> The providers filter is constructed from a string value, taken from either a system or a security property with name "jdk.security.providers.filter". This process occurs at sun.security.jca.ProvidersFilter class —simply referred as ProvidersFilter onward— static initialization. Thus, changes to the filter's overridable property are not effective afterwards and no assumptions should be made regarding when this class gets initialized.
> 
> The filter's string value is processed with a custom parser of order 'n', being 'n' the number of characters. The parser, represented by the ProvidersFilter.Parser class, can be characterized as a Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA). The ProvidersFilter.Parser::parse method is the starting point to get characters from the filter's string value and generate state transitions in the parser's internal state-machine. See ProvidersFilter.Parser::nextState for more details about the parser's states and both valid and invalid transitions. The ParsingState enum defines valid parser states and Transition the reasons to move between states. If a filter string cannot be parsed, a ProvidersFilter.ParserException exception is thrown, and turned into an unchecked IllegalArgumentException in the ProvidersFilter.Filter constructor.
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> While we analyzed —and even tried, at early stages of the development— the use of regular expressions for filter parsing, we discarded the approach in order to get maximum performance, support a more advanced syntax and have flexibility for further extensions in the future.
> 
> ### Filter (structure and behavior)
> 
> A filter is represented by the ProvidersFilter.Filter class. It consists of an ordered list of rules, returned by the parser, that represents filter patterns from left to right (see the filter syntax for reference). At the end of this list, a match-all and deny rule is added for default behavior. When a service is evaluated against the filter, each filter rule is checked in the ProvidersFilter.Filter::apply method. The rule makes an allow or deny decision if the ser...

Martin Balao has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains nine commits:

 - Merge 'openjdk/master' into JDK-8315487
   
   Below is a conflicts resolution summary.
   
   Trivial conflict, caused by 2a1ae0ff89a8ac364206b09059d9dc884adcc5ac:
     src/java.base/share/classes/java/security/Provider.java
   
   Drop unnecessary change after db85090553ab14a84c3ed0a2604dd56c5b6e6982:
     src/java.base/share/lib/security/default.policy
   
   Trivial conflict, caused by 0329855831102a48abf14b5befc933f84dfd3460:
     test/jdk/tools/launcher/Settings.java
 - Remove -Xdebug from commented-out debug command
   
   This is unnecessary, see 842d6329cf5a3da8df7eddb195b5fcb7baadbdc3.
 - Merge 'openjdk/master' into JDK-8315487
   
   Resolved conflicts:
     src/java.base/share/classes/java/security/Provider.java
     src/java.base/share/classes/javax/crypto/Cipher.java
     src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/jca/ProviderList.java
     src/java.base/share/conf/security/java.security
     src/java.security.jgss/share/classes/sun/security/jgss/wrapper/SunNativeProvider.java
   
   Additional fixes:
     src/java.base/share/classes/java/security/Security.java
       Import sun.security.jca.ProvidersFilter, since the sun.security.jca.*
       import was removed in c6f1d5f374bfa9bde75765391d5dae0e8e28b4ab.
     src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/jca/GetInstance.java
       Adjust GetInstance::getCipherServices return type to Iterator<Service>.
     src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/jca/ProvidersFilter.java
       Rename CipherServiceList to CipherServiceIterator in comment.
 - Minor changes to align with the JEP.
   
   Co-authored-by: Francisco Ferrari Bihurriet <fferrari at redhat.com>
   Co-authored-by: Martin Balao <mbalao at redhat.com>
 - ProvidersFilterTest extended to cover all JCA service types.
   
   Co-authored-by: Francisco Ferrari Bihurriet <fferrari at redhat.com>
   Co-authored-by: Martin Balao <mbalao at openjdk.org>
 - Support for cipher transformations and JEP alignment
   of the java.security documentation.
   
   Co-authored-by: Francisco Ferrari Bihurriet <fferrari at redhat.com>
   Co-authored-by: Martin Balao <mbalao at redhat.com>
 - Copyright dates update.
 - More clear text in invalid pattern exception.
 - 8315487: Security Providers Filter
   
   Co-authored-by: Francisco Ferrari Bihurriet <fferrari at redhat.com>
   Co-authored-by: Martin Balao <mbalao at redhat.com>

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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15539/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=15539&range=09
  Stats: 5224 lines in 24 files changed: 4596 ins; 353 del; 275 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15539.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/15539/head:pull/15539

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15539


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