Re: [PATCH] pkeys: Introduce PKEY_ALLOC_SIGNALINHERIT and change signal semantics

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On 05/02/2018 03:22 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> That library wants other threads, signal handlers, and, in general, the
> whole rest of the process to be restricted, and that library doesn't want
> race conditions.  The problem here is that, to get this right, we either
> need the PKRU modifications to be syscalls or to take locks, and the lock
> approach is going to be fairly gross.

I totally get the idea that a RDPKRU/WRPKRU is non-atomic and that it
can't be mixed with asynchronous WRPKRU's in that thread.

But, where do those come from in this scenario?  I'm not getting the
secondary mechanism is that *makes* them unsafe.
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