From 04f35f6f892104076f34e51700d80b4b580d045a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Mullan <mullan@openjdk.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 08:16:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] 8181295: Document that SecurityManager::checkPackageAccess
may be called by the VM
Reviewed-by: mchung
---
.../java.base/share/classes/java/lang/SecurityManager.java | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/SecurityManager.java b/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/SecurityManager.java
index b60d63e5f02..ef893b73ec9 100644
--- a/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/SecurityManager.java
+++ b/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/SecurityManager.java
@@ -1496,7 +1496,10 @@ class SecurityManager {
* Throws a {@code SecurityException} if the calling thread is not allowed
* to access the specified package.
* <p>
- * This method is called by the {@code loadClass} method of class loaders.
+ * During class loading, this method may be called by the {@code loadClass}
+ * method of class loaders and by the Java Virtual Machine to ensure that
+ * the caller is allowed to access the package of the class that is
+ * being loaded.
* <p>
* This method checks if the specified package starts with or equals
* any of the packages in the {@code package.access} Security Property.