On Mon, 13 May 2024 11:47:38 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 three 
> additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Fix another typo
>  - Fix typo
>  - Add more comments

src/hotspot/share/runtime/arguments.cpp line 2271:

> 2269:     } else if (match_option(option, "--illegal-native-access=", &tail)) 
> {
> 2270:       if (!create_module_property("jdk.module.illegal.native.access", 
> tail, InternalProperty)) {
> 2271:         return JNI_ENOMEM;

I think it would be helpful to get guidance on if this is the right way to add 
this system property, only because this one not a "module property". The 
configuration (WriteableProperty + InternalProperty) look right.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19213#discussion_r1598673962

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