Once an address range is associated with an allocated pkey, it cannot be reverted back to key-0. There is no valid reason for the above behavior. On the contrary applications need the ability to do so. The patch relaxes the restriction. Tested on powerpc. cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> cc: Michael Ellermen <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h index 0409c80..3c1deec 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pkeys.h @@ -101,10 +101,18 @@ static inline u16 pte_to_pkey_bits(u64 pteflags) static inline bool mm_pkey_is_allocated(struct mm_struct *mm, int pkey) { - /* A reserved key is never considered as 'explicitly allocated' */ - return ((pkey < arch_max_pkey()) && - !__mm_pkey_is_reserved(pkey) && - __mm_pkey_is_allocated(mm, pkey)); + /* pkey 0 is allocated by default. */ + if (!pkey) + return true; + + if (pkey < 0 || pkey >= arch_max_pkey()) + return false; + + /* Reserved keys are never allocated. */ + if (__mm_pkey_is_reserved(pkey)) + return false; + + return __mm_pkey_is_allocated(mm, pkey); } extern void __arch_activate_pkey(int pkey); @@ -150,7 +158,8 @@ static inline int mm_pkey_free(struct mm_struct *mm, int pkey) if (static_branch_likely(&pkey_disabled)) return -1; - if (!mm_pkey_is_allocated(mm, pkey)) + /* pkey 0 cannot be freed */ + if (!pkey || !mm_pkey_is_allocated(mm, pkey)) return -EINVAL; /* -- 1.8.3.1