RFR(XS) 8081695: Old verifier fails to reject bad access to protected <init> method

[harold seigel]

Hi George,

Thanks for the review!

Harold

On 7/17/2015 11:57 AM, George Triantafillou wrote:
> Hi Harold,
>
> Looks good.
>
> -George
>
> On 7/17/2015 10:48 AM, harold seigel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review this small change to fix bug JDK-8081695.  The (old) 
>> type inferencing verifier excluded a particular protected access 
>> check for invokespecial calls of protected methods.  That exclusion 
>> was done because of bytecodes generated by very old broken 
>> compilers.  It is being removed because it violates the JVM-8 Spec 
>> and should no longer be needed.
>>
>> Open Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_8081695/
>>
>> JBS Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8081695
>>
>> The fix was tested with JCK Lang and VM tests, WLS sanity testing, 
>> the UTE quick tests, and the hotspot, and JDK vm, java/io, java/lang, 
>> and java/util JTreg tests.
>>
>> Thanks, Harold
>