RFR: 8261534: Test sun/security/pkcs11/KeyAgreement/IllegalPackageAccess.java fails on platforms where no nsslib artifacts are defined

[Martin Balao]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:05:22 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Fix exception in test sun/security/pkcs11/KeyAgreement/IllegalPackageAccess.java:
>> 
>> java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.security.SecurityPermission" "removeProvider.SUN")
>> at java.base/java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:472)
>> at java.base/java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:1036)
>> at java.base/java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:408)
>> at java.base/java.lang.SecurityManager.checkSecurityAccess(SecurityManager.java:1521)
>> at java.base/java.security.Security.check(Security.java:832)
>> at java.base/java.security.Security.removeProvider(Security.java:444)
>> at IllegalPackageAccess.main(IllegalPackageAccess.java:81)
>> at PKCS11Test.premain(PKCS11Test.java:171)
>> at PKCS11Test.testNSS(PKCS11Test.java:568)
>> at PKCS11Test.main(PKCS11Test.java:207)
>> at IllegalPackageAccess.main(IllegalPackageAccess.java:69)
>> at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>> at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:78)
>> at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>> at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
>> at com.sun.javatest.regtest.agent.MainWrapper$MainThread.run(MainWrapper.java:127)
>> at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:831)
>> 
>> Root cause is that the test materializes and installs a policy by [obtaining the current policy](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/4be2173478bd1e84946bd903b350ce466bddb36b/test/jdk/sun/security/pkcs11/KeyAgreement/IllegalPackageAccess.java#L46). At the time it [tries to remove a provider](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/4be2173478bd1e84946bd903b350ce466bddb36b/test/jdk/sun/security/pkcs11/KeyAgreement/IllegalPackageAccess.java#L80), the materialized policy is used for an access check, due to some intricacies of the [java.security.Policy implementation](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/4be2173478bd1e84946bd903b350ce466bddb36b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/security/Policy.java#L293). This policy does not allow the removal of a provider.
>> On platforms where the test runs through [PKCS11Test::fetchNssLib](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/4be2173478bd1e84946bd903b350ce466bddb36b/test/jdk/sun/security/pkcs11/PKCS11Test.java#L859), the default policy is reset  which makes the test work. But if we don't pass there, the test fails.
>> 
>> The fix is to unconditionally call Policy.setPolicy(null); in IllegalPackageAccess before installing MyPolicy.
>
> LGTM

I'm not a JDK main line reviewer but the proposed fix looks good to me as well.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2518