On Thu, 16 May 2024 12:23:44 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadam...@openjdk.org> 
wrote:

>> This PR implements [JEP 472](https://openjdk.org/jeps/472), by restricting 
>> the use of JNI in the following ways:
>> 
>> * `System::load` and `System::loadLibrary` are now restricted methods
>> * `Runtime::load` and `Runtime::loadLibrary` are now restricted methods
>> * binding a JNI `native` method declaration to a native implementation is 
>> now considered a restricted operation
>> 
>> This PR slightly changes the way in which the JDK deals with restricted 
>> methods, even for FFM API calls. In Java 22, the single 
>> `--enable-native-access` was used both to specify a set of modules for which 
>> native access should be allowed *and* to specify whether illegal native 
>> access (that is, native access occurring from a module not specified by 
>> `--enable-native-access`) should be treated as an error or a warning. More 
>> specifically, an error is only issued if the `--enable-native-access flag` 
>> is used at least once.
>> 
>> Here, a new flag is introduced, namely 
>> `illegal-native-access=allow/warn/deny`, which is used to specify what 
>> should happen when access to a restricted method and/or functionality is 
>> found outside the set of modules specified with `--enable-native-access`. 
>> The default policy is `warn`, but users can select `allow` to suppress the 
>> warnings, or `deny` to cause `IllegalCallerException` to be thrown. This 
>> aligns the treatment of restricted methods with other mechanisms, such as 
>> `--illegal-access` and the more recent `--sun-misc-unsafe-memory-access`.
>> 
>> Some changes were required in the package-info javadoc for 
>> `java.lang.foreign`, to reflect the changes in the command line flags 
>> described above.
>
> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Add note on --illegal-native-access default value in the launcher help

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ClassLoader.java line 2448:

> 2446:      * Invoked in the VM class linking code.
> 2447:      */
> 2448:     static long findNative(ClassLoader loader, Class<?> clazz, String 
> entryName, String javaName) {

I think this is another place where `@param` descriptions would help as it's 
not immediately clear that "javaName" is a method name.

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Runtime.java line 39:

> 37: 
> 38: import jdk.internal.access.SharedSecrets;
> 39: import jdk.internal.javac.Restricted;

Runtime has been touched for a while so you'll need to bump the copyright year.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19213#discussion_r1604648529
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19213#discussion_r1604650293

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