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

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On 05/02/2018 04:32 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> But, where do those come from in this scenario?  I'm not getting
>> the secondary mechanism is that *makes* them unsafe.
> pkey_alloc() itself.  If someone tries to allocate a key with a given
> default mode, unless there’s already a key that already had that
> value in all threads or pkey_alloc() needs to asynchronously create
> such a key.

I think you are saying: If a thread calls pkey_alloc(), all threads
should, by default, implicitly get access.  That
broadcast-to-other-threads is the thing that the current architecture
doesn't do.  In this situation, CPU threads have to go opt-out of
getting access to data protected with a given, allocated key.

Right?
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