Currently, a `Lookup` object with `PACKAGE` access can be used to inject a class in the runtime package of the Lookup's lookup class via `Lookup::defineClass`. The classes that are injected have the same access as other members in the module and can access private members of all types in the module via reflection.
However, changing `Lookup.defineClass` to require full privilege access (`PRIVATE` + `MODULE`) is an incompatible change that would break existing frameworks which use `privateLookupIn` and `Lookup::defineClass` to inject auxiliary classes in a module. A module authorizes the framework by opening a package for it to access and `Lookup::defineClass` was the supported replacement for `setAccessible` on `ClassLoader::defineClass` hack in JDK 9. This PR proposes to keep existing behavior and provide better documentation to help developers to beware of the permissions given out when opening a package to another module. A class injected in a module has the same privilege as other module members. ------------- Commit messages: - 8217920: Lookup.defineClass injects a class that can access private members of any class in its own module Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12236/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=12236&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8217920 Stats: 22 lines in 2 files changed: 21 ins; 0 del; 1 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12236.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/12236/head:pull/12236 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12236
