RFR (JDK 12): 6899533: SecureClassLoader and URLClassLoader have unnecessary check for createClassLoader permission

mandy chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Thu Sep 6 20:22:55 UTC 2018



On 9/6/18 12:29 PM, Sean Mullan wrote:
> Please review this change to remove code that is no longer necessary 
> now that pre-JDK 1.2 SecurityManager methods are no longer supported 
> [1]. In addition, the initialized flag and associated code has been 
> removed from SecureClassLoader as this was only necessary to prevent 
> finalizer attacks prior to JDK 6.
>
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mullan/webrevs/6899533/webrev.00/
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6899533

Looks good.  Happy to see this is cleaned up.

Mandy
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