On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:49:31AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
On 06/13/2018 05:45 PM, Ram Pai wrote:
When a key is freed, the key is no more effective. Clear the bits corresponding to the pkey in the shadow register. Otherwise it will carry some spurious bits which can trigger false-positive asserts.
...--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c @@ -556,6 +556,9 @@ int alloc_pkey(void) int sys_pkey_free(unsigned long pkey) { int ret = syscall(SYS_pkey_free, pkey);
- if (!ret)
shadow_pkey_reg &= clear_pkey_flags(pkey, PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS);}
This would be great code for an actual application. But, I'm not immediately convinced we want sane, kind behavior in our selftest. x86 doesn't clear the hardware register at pkey_free, so wouldn't this cause the shadow and the hardware register to diverge?
Have deleted the code in the newer version.
RP
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