RFR 8182999: SunEC throws ProviderException on invalid curves

[Seán Coffey]

Thanks for the update! Looks fine to me.

Regards,
Sean.

On 10/07/17 16:13, Adam Petcher wrote:
> New webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~apetcher/8182999/webrev.01/
>
> Yes, this is a good idea. I made this work by printing out the value 
> from AlgorithmParameters.toString(), so hopefully that means you 
> should always get a useful string. At the moment (with SunEC 
> AlgorithmParameters), the string prints the friendly name followed by 
> the OID:
>
> Unsupported curve: brainpoolP256r1 (1.3.36.3.3.2.8.1.1.7)
>
> On 7/7/2017 4:12 PM, Seán Coffey wrote:
>> Adam,
>>
>> would it be useful to get the curve name in the new exception ? I 
>> think it would help with future debugging. Line 96 already gets the 
>> curve name if we're dealing with ECGenParameterSpec instance. I think 
>> the same approach could be applied to your new code.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sean.
>>
>>
>> On 07/07/2017 19:59, Adam Petcher wrote:
>>> This is a bug fix related to invalid curves in the SunEC provider. 
>>> During ECKeyPairGenerator.initialize(), the provider only checks 
>>> whether the curve is known, but it doesn't check whether the curve 
>>> is actually supported by the native code. So the call to 
>>> generateKeyPair() can fail in the native code and throw a 
>>> ProviderException. This change adds a new native method to check 
>>> whether the curve is supported. This method is called by 
>>> initialize(), which will set the state to uninitialized and throw 
>>> the expected exception when the curve is not supported.
>>>
>>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8182999
>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~apetcher/8182999/webrev.00/
>>>
>>
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