[RFC v7 24/25] powerpc: Deliver SEGV signal on pkey violation

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Aug 19 07:54:20 AEST 2017


On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 10:04 -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> Assume two threads of a task.
> 
> T1:  mprotect_key(foo, PAGE_SIZE, pkey=4);
> T1:  set AMR to disable access for pkey 4;
> T1:  key fault
>     T2: set AMR to enable access to pkey 4;
> T1:  fault handler called.
>         This fault handler will see the new AMR and not the
>         one at the time of the fault.

You aren't context switching AMR with the threads ? Ugh... something is
very wrong then.

Ben.




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