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/* VMAccessController.java -- VM-specific access controller methods.
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package java.security;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedList;

final class VMAccessController
{

  // Fields.
  // -------------------------------------------------------------------------

  /**
   * This is a per-thread stack of AccessControlContext objects (which can
   * be null) for each call to AccessController.doPrivileged in each thread's
   * call stack. We use this to remember which context object corresponds to
   * which call.
   */
  private static final ThreadLocal contexts = new ThreadLocal();

  /**
   * This is a Boolean that, if set, tells getContext that it has already
   * been called once, allowing us to handle recursive permission checks
   * caused by methods getContext calls.
   */
  private static final ThreadLocal inGetContext = new ThreadLocal();

  /**
   * And we return this all-permissive context to ensure that privileged
   * methods called from getContext succeed.
   */
  private static final AccessControlContext DEFAULT_CONTEXT;
  static
  {
    CodeSource source = new CodeSource(null, null);
    Permissions permissions = new Permissions();
    permissions.add(new AllPermission());
    ProtectionDomain[] domain = new ProtectionDomain[] {
      new ProtectionDomain(source, permissions)
    };
    DEFAULT_CONTEXT = new AccessControlContext(domain);
  }

  private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
  private static void debug(String msg)
  {
    System.err.print(">>> VMAccessController: ");
    System.err.println(msg);
  }

  // Constructors.
  // -------------------------------------------------------------------------

  private VMAccessController() { }

  // Class methods.
  // -------------------------------------------------------------------------

  /**
   * Relate a class (which should be an instance of {@link PrivilegedAction}
   * with an access control context. This method is used by {@link
   * AccessController#doPrivileged(java.security.PrivilegedAction,java.security.AccessControlContext)}
   * to set up the context that will be returned by {@link #getContext()}.
   * This method relates the class to the current thread, so contexts
   * pushed from one thread will not be available to another.
   *
   * @param acc The access control context.
   */
  static void pushContext (AccessControlContext acc)
  {
    if (DEBUG)
      debug("pushing " + acc);
    LinkedList stack = (LinkedList) contexts.get();
    if (stack == null)
      {
        stack = new LinkedList();
        contexts.set(stack);
      }
    stack.addFirst(acc);
  }

  /**
   * Removes the relation of a class to an {@link AccessControlContext}.
   * This method is used by {@link AccessController} when exiting from a
   * call to {@link
   * AccessController#doPrivileged(java.security.PrivilegedAction,java.security.AccessControlContext)}.
   */
  static void popContext()
  {
    if (DEBUG)
      debug("popping context");

    // Stack should never be null, nor should it be empty, if this method
    // and its counterpart has been called properly.
    LinkedList stack = (LinkedList) contexts.get();
    if (stack != null)
      {
        stack.removeFirst();
        if (stack.isEmpty())
          contexts.set(null);
      }
  }

  /**
   * Examine the method stack of the currently running thread, and create
   * an {@link AccessControlContext} filled in with the appropriate {@link
   * ProtectionDomain} objects given this stack.
   *
   * @return The context.
   */
  static AccessControlContext getContext()
  {
    // If we are already in getContext, but called a method that needs
    // a permission check, return the all-permissive context so methods
    // called from here succeed.
    //
    // XXX is this necessary? We should verify if there are any calls in
    // the stack below this method that require permission checks.
    Boolean inCall = (Boolean) inGetContext.get();
    if (inCall != null && inCall.booleanValue())
      {
        if (DEBUG)
          debug("already in getContext");
        return DEFAULT_CONTEXT;
      }

    inGetContext.set(Boolean.TRUE);

    Object[][] stack = getStack();
    Class[] classes = (Class[]) stack[0];
    String[] methods = (String[]) stack[1];

    if (DEBUG)
      debug(">>> got trace of length " + classes.length);

    HashSet domains = new HashSet();
    HashSet seenDomains = new HashSet();
    AccessControlContext context = null;
    int privileged = 0;

    // We walk down the stack, adding each ProtectionDomain for each
    // class in the call stack. If we reach a call to doPrivileged,
    // we don't add any more stack frames. We skip the first three stack
    // frames, since they comprise the calls to getStack, getContext,
    // and AccessController.getContext.
    for (int i = 3; i < classes.length && privileged < 2; i++)
      {
        Class clazz = classes[i];
        String method = methods[i];

        if (DEBUG)
          {
            debug(">>> checking " + clazz + "." + method);
            debug(">>> loader = " + clazz.getClassLoader());
          }

        // If the previous frame was a call to doPrivileged, then this is
        // the last frame we look at.
        if (privileged == 1)
          privileged = 2;

        if (clazz.equals (AccessController.class)
            && method.equals ("doPrivileged"))
          {
            // If there was a call to doPrivileged with a supplied context,
            // return that context.
            LinkedList l = (LinkedList) contexts.get();
            if (l != null)
              context = (AccessControlContext) l.getFirst();
            privileged = 1;
          }

        ProtectionDomain domain = clazz.getProtectionDomain();

        if (domain == null)
          continue;
        if (seenDomains.contains(domain))
          continue;
        seenDomains.add(domain);

        // Create a static snapshot of this domain, which may change over time
        // if the current policy changes.
        domains.add(new ProtectionDomain(domain.getCodeSource(),
                                         domain.getPermissions()));
      }

    if (DEBUG)
      debug("created domains: " + domains);

    ProtectionDomain[] result = (ProtectionDomain[])
      domains.toArray(new ProtectionDomain[domains.size()]);

    // Intersect the derived protection domain with the context supplied
    // to doPrivileged.
    if (context != null)
      context = new AccessControlContext(result, context,
                                         IntersectingDomainCombiner.SINGLETON);
    // No context was supplied. Return the derived one.
    else
      context = new AccessControlContext(result);

    inGetContext.set(Boolean.FALSE);
    return context;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a snapshot of the current call stack as a pair of arrays:
   * the first an array of classes in the call stack, the second an array
   * of strings containing the method names in the call stack. The two
   * arrays match up, meaning that method <i>i</i> is declared in class
   * <i>i</i>. The arrays are clean; it will only contain Java methods,
   * and no element of the list should be null.
   *
   * <p>The default implementation returns an empty stack, which will be
   * interpreted as having no permissions whatsoever.
   *
   * @return A pair of arrays describing the current call stack. The first
   *    element is an array of Class objects, and the second is an array
   *    of Strings comprising the method names.
   */
  private static Object[][] getStack()
  {
    return new Object[][] { new Class[0], new String[0] };
  }
}