Review Request: 7164376 Replace use of sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction

[Mandy Chung]

Thanks, Sean.  I have fixed the 3 files per your comment.

Mandy

On 4/26/2012 1:59 PM, Sean Mullan wrote:
> Looks fine, just a couple of nits.
>
> src/macosx/classes/com/apple/concurrent/LibDispatchNative.java,
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>   - the closing static brace is not indented the same as the open brace.
>
> src/solaris/classes/sun/management/FileSystemImpl.java
> src/windows/classes/sun/management/FileSystemImpl.java
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>   - line-break coding style is different from all others; probably 
> better to be consistent
>
> --Sean
>
> On 04/26/2012 02:49 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> 7164376 Replace use of sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction with
>> direct call of System.loadLibrary
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk8/webrevs/7164376/webrev.00/
>>
>> This change is required for jdk modularization. High level summary:
>> it replaces the use of LoadLibraryAction:
>>
>> FROM: java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(new
>> LoadLibraryAction("net"));
>>
>> TO: AccessController.doPrivileged( new
>> java.security.PrivilegedAction<Void>() { public Void run() {
>> System.loadLibrary("net"); return null; } });
>>
>> It touches files in awt, security and serviceability area (cc'ed).
>> For this type of simple change, I think 1-2 reviewers can review all
>> files (simpler to review jdk.patch) and no need for all teams to do
>> the reviews.
>>
>> System.loadLibrary and Runtime.loadLibrary loads a system library of
>> the given library name that requires
>> RuntimePermission("loadLibrary."+lib) permission. Many places in the
>> JDK code loading a system native library is using the
>> sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction convenient class that will load
>> the system library as a privileged action:
>> java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(new
>> LoadLibraryAction("net"));
>>
>> The search path of native libraries are coupled with an associated
>> class loader. For example, the application class loader uses the path
>> specified in the "java.library.path" system property for native
>> library lookup. The loadLibrary implementation uses the caller's
>> class loader for finding the native library being requested. For
>> system libraries, the class loader is null and the system library
>> lookup is handled as a special case. When the
>> sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction class is used that is the
>> caller of System.loadLibrary, the caller's class loader in this case
>> is "null" loader and thus it always finds the native library from the
>> system library path.
>>
>> In a modular world, JDK modules may be loaded by multiple different
>> module class loader. The following code would not work if it is
>> expected to load a native library from a module which is not the
>> module where the sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction lives.
>>
>> For example, the management module is trying to load
>> libmanagement.so. Calling the following will fail to find
>> libmanagement.so because the caller of System.loadLibrary is the
>> LoadLibraryAction which is in the base module and search the library
>> from the base module only. To prepare for jdk modularization, the use
>> of LoadLibraryAction should be replaced with a direct call of
>> System.loadLibrary.
>>
>> This patch also removes sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction class
>> to avoid regression.
>>
>> Thanks Mandy
>>
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