[RFC v6 48/62] selftest/vm: clear the bits in shadow reg when a pkey is freed.
Ram Pai
linuxram at us.ibm.com
Sun Jul 16 13:56:50 AEST 2017
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.
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
index 0f2d1ce..4f4ce36 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
@@ -582,6 +582,9 @@ int alloc_pkey(void)
int sys_pkey_free(unsigned long pkey)
{
int ret = syscall(SYS_pkey_free, pkey);
+
+ if (!ret)
+ shadow_pkey_reg &= reset_bits(pkey, PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS);
dprintf1("%s(pkey=%ld) syscall ret: %d\n", __func__, pkey, ret);
return ret;
}
--
1.7.1
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