On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:52:24 GMT, Sean Mullan <mul...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is the implementation of JEP 486: Permanently Disable the Security 
> Manager. See [JEP 486](https://openjdk.org/jeps/486) for more details. The 
> [CSR](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8338412) describes in detail the 
> main changes in the JEP and also includes an apidiff of the specification 
> changes.
> 
> NOTE: the majority (~95%) of the changes in this PR are test updates 
> (removal/modifications) and API specification changes, the latter mostly to 
> remove `@throws SecurityException`. The remaining changes are primarily the 
> removal of the `SecurityManager`, `Policy`, `AccessController` and other 
> Security Manager API implementations. There is very little new code.
> 
> The code changes can be broken down into roughly the following categories:
> 
> 1. Degrading the behavior of Security Manager APIs to either throw Exceptions 
> by default or provide an execution environment that disallows access to all 
> resources by default.
> 2. Changing hundreds of methods and constructors to no longer throw a 
> `SecurityException` if a Security Manager was enabled. They will operate as 
> they did in JDK 23 with no Security Manager enabled.
> 3. Changing the `java` command to exit with a fatal error if a Security 
> Manager is enabled.
> 4. Removing the hotspot native code for the privileged stack walk and the 
> inherited access control context. The remaining hotspot code and tests 
> related to the Security Manager will be removed immediately after integration 
> - see [JDK-8341916](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8341916).
> 5. Removing or modifying hundreds of tests. Many tests that tested Security 
> Manager behavior are no longer relevant and thus have been removed or 
> modified.
> 
> There are a handful of Security Manager related tests that are failing and 
> are at the end of the `test/jdk/ProblemList.txt`, 
> `test/langtools/ProblemList.txt` and `test/hotspot/jtreg/ProblemList.txt` 
> files - these will be removed or separate bugs will be filed before 
> integrating this PR. 
> 
> Inside the JDK, we have retained calls to 
> `SecurityManager::getSecurityManager` and `AccessController::doPrivileged` 
> for now, as these methods have been degraded to behave the same as they did 
> in JDK 23 with no Security Manager enabled. After we integrate this JEP, 
> those calls will be removed in each area (client-libs, core-libs, security, 
> etc).
> 
> I don't expect each reviewer to review all the code changes in this JEP. 
> Rather, I advise that you only focus on the changes for the area 
> (client-libs, core-libs, net, security, etc) that you are most f...

`java.security.jgss`, `jdk.security.auth`, and `jdk.security.jgss` look mostly 
fine except for [one 
question](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/21498#pullrequestreview-2372476763).

src/jdk.security.jgss/share/classes/com/sun/security/jgss/InquireSecContextPermission.java
 line 31:

> 29: 
> 30: /**
> 31:  * This class is for GSS security context permissions.

Why is the content of _this_ class modified? I see in other permission classes 
the content is left unmodified.

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21498#pullrequestreview-2372479736
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21498#discussion_r1803106645

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