Motivation:
Writing to a system property requires permissions. Yet the code for
setting sun.nio.ch.bugLevel is not marked as privileged. In a
restrictive environment (e.g., under a security policy that only grants
the requisite permissions the Netty transport jar but not to application
code triggering the Netty initialization), writing to this system
property will not succeed even if the security policy would otherwise
permit it.
Modifications:
This commt marks the necessary code block as privileged. This enables
writing to this system property. The idea is that we are saying the
Netty code is trusted, and as long as the Netty code has been granted
the necessary permissions, then we will allow the caller access to these
resources even though the caller itself might not have the requisite
permissions.
Result:
The system property sun.nio.ch.bugLevel can be written to in a
restrictive security environment.
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