Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] powerpc/pkeys: fixes to pkeys

Florian Weimer [off-list ref] writes:

On 06/14/2018 02:28 AM, Ram Pai wrote:

quoted

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  Execute-only key is preallocated.

Patch 5  Makes pkey-0 less special.

Patch 6  Deny by default permissions on all unallocated keys.

Passes all selftests on powerpc. Also behavior verified to be correct
by Florian.

Changelog:

	v2: . fixed merge conflict with upstream code.
	    . Add patch 6. Makes the behavior consistent
	      with that on x86.

(Except signal handling, but I agree with Ram that the POWER behavior is 
the correct one.)

quoted

Ram Pai (6):
   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
   powerpc/pkeys: Deny read/write/execute by default

I tested the whole series with the new selftests, with the printamr.c 
program I posted earlier, and the glibc test for pkey_alloc &c.  The 
latter required some test fixes, but now passes as well.  As far as I 
can tell, everything looks good now.

Tested-By: Florian Weimer <redacted>

Thanks. I'll add that to each patch I guess, if you're happy with that?

cheers