[PATCH v13 16/24] selftests/vm: clear the bits in shadow reg when a pkey is freed.

Dave Hansen dave.hansen at intel.com
Thu Jun 21 01:07:31 AEST 2018


On 06/13/2018 05:45 PM, Ram Pai wrote:
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
> @@ -577,7 +577,8 @@ 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);
> +		shadow_pkey_reg &= clear_pkey_flags(pkey,
> +				PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS | PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE);
>  	dprintf1("%s(pkey=%ld) syscall ret: %d\n", __func__, pkey, ret);
>  	return ret;
>  }

Why did you introduce this code earlier and then modify it now?

BTW, my original aversion to this code still stands.


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