[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8339560: Unaddressed comments during code review of JDK-8337664

[Goetz Lindenmaier]

I backport this to improve testing in 17 and simplify later backports in the security area where we see frequent backports.

Clean from 21.

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Commit messages:
 - Backport 0755f5c2b91cc4bcfba054e7942d740e132f8baf

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2943/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk17u-dev&pr=2943&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8339560
  Stats: 932 lines in 26 files changed: 391 ins; 541 del; 0 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2943.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev.git pull/2943/head:pull/2943

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2943