diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java b/src/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java
index df4d457367d662cd134d69173e45e3b47ad0e0e9..eb11681ac0031a1344120cd53bec4fd186338e7f 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java
@@ -1221,9 +1221,25 @@ public final class Class<T> implements java.io.Serializable,
      * type, or void,then this method returns null.
      *
      * @return the declaring class for this class
+     * @throws SecurityException
+     *         If a security manager, <i>s</i>, is present and the caller's
+     *         class loader is not the same as or an ancestor of the class
+     *         loader for the declaring class and invocation of {@link
+     *         SecurityManager#checkPackageAccess s.checkPackageAccess()}
+     *         denies access to the package of the declaring class
      * @since JDK1.1
      */
-    public native Class<?> getDeclaringClass();
+    @CallerSensitive
+    public Class<?> getDeclaringClass() throws SecurityException {
+        final Class<?> candidate = getDeclaringClass0();
+
+        if (candidate != null)
+            candidate.checkPackageAccess(
+                    ClassLoader.getClassLoader(Reflection.getCallerClass()), true);
+        return candidate;
+    }
+
+    private native Class<?> getDeclaringClass0();
 
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/share/native/java/lang/Class.c b/src/share/native/java/lang/Class.c
index e53d3f73b79dd14482631faefd875f69ba0b8a2f..b0ba34349d8d19ebcaffc1d77cfabd5e57c01124 100644
--- a/src/share/native/java/lang/Class.c
+++ b/src/share/native/java/lang/Class.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static JNINativeMethod methods[] = {
     {"getDeclaredConstructors0","(Z)[" CTR, (void *)&JVM_GetClassDeclaredConstructors},
     {"getProtectionDomain0", "()" PD,       (void *)&JVM_GetProtectionDomain},
     {"getDeclaredClasses0",  "()[" CLS,      (void *)&JVM_GetDeclaredClasses},
-    {"getDeclaringClass",   "()" CLS,      (void *)&JVM_GetDeclaringClass},
+    {"getDeclaringClass0",   "()" CLS,      (void *)&JVM_GetDeclaringClass},
     {"getGenericSignature0", "()" STR,      (void *)&JVM_GetClassSignature},
     {"getRawAnnotations",      "()" BA,        (void *)&JVM_GetClassAnnotations},
     {"getConstantPool",     "()" CPL,       (void *)&JVM_GetClassConstantPool},