[PATCH 0/5] powerpc/pkeys: fixes to pkeys
Ram Pai
linuxram at us.ibm.com
Tue Jun 5 12:09:49 AEST 2018
Assortment of fixes to pkey.
Patch 1 makes pkey consumable in multithreaded applications.
Patch 2 fixes fork behavior to inherit the key attributes.
Patch 3 A off-by-one bug made one key unusable. Fixes it.
Patch 4 Makes pkey-0 less special.
Ram Pai (5):
powerpc/pkeys: Enable all user-allocatable pkeys at init.
powerpc/pkeys: Save the pkey registers before fork
powerpc/pkeys: fix calculation of total pkeys.
powerpc/pkeys: Preallocate execute-only key
powerpc/pkeys: make protection key 0 less special
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h | 29 ++++++++--
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 1 +
arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c | 107 ++++++++++++++------------------------
3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
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