RFR: 8364182: Add jcmd VM.security_properties command [v10]

Alan Bateman alanb at openjdk.org
Wed Feb 18 18:45:52 UTC 2026


On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:55:54 GMT, Kieran Farrell <kfarrell at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The goal of this PR is to add a means of exposing security properties at runtime to aid the debugging security related issues/misconfigurations etc. Currently, only initial security properties set at start up can be exposed via the `InitialSecurityProperty` JFR event. 
>> 
>> This patch introduces a new jcmd diagnostic command `VM.properties`, which enables developers to print either the current system properties or security properties of a running Java process via command-line arguments (-system or -security). To avoid clutter within the jcmd command list, the old `VM.system_properties` command is hidden, but not removed so will not break existing usages. The implementation of each is shared to reduce duplication.
>
> Kieran Farrell has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   newline

test/hotspot/jtreg/serviceability/dcmd/vm/SecurityPropertiesTest.java line 40:

> 38:  *          java.management
> 39:  *          jdk.internal.jvmstat/sun.jvmstat.monitor
> 40:  * @run testng SecurityPropertiesTest

Probably best to have this test start out as a JUnit rather than TestNG tests as there is effort to try to have new tests not use TestNG.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29124#discussion_r2823878639


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