pkeys on POWER: Access rights not reset on execve
Florian Weimer
fweimer at redhat.com
Fri Jun 8 15:53:51 AEST 2018
On 06/08/2018 04:34 AM, Ram Pai wrote:
>>
>> So the remaining question at this point is whether the Intel
>> behavior (default-deny instead of default-allow) is preferable.
>
> Florian, remind me what behavior needs to fixed?
See the other thread. The Intel register equivalent to the AMR by
default disallows access to yet-unallocated keys, so that threads which
are created before key allocation do not magically gain access to a key
allocated by another thread.
Thanks,
Florian
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