On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > If we push a PKRU value into a thread between the rdpkru() and wrpkru(), we'll >> > lose the content of that "push". I'm not sure there's any way to guarantee >> > this with a user-controlled register. >> >> We could try to insist that user code uses some vsyscall helper that tracks >> which bits are as-yet-unassigned. That's quite messy, though. > > Actually, if we turned the vDSO into something more like a minimal user-space > library with the ability to run at process startup as well to prepare stuff then > it's painful to get right only *once*, and there will be tons of other areas where > a proper per thread data storage on the user-space side would be immensely useful! Doing this could be tricky: how exactly is the vDSO supposed to find per-thread data without breaking existing glibc? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
