When a key is freed, the key is no more effective. Clear the bits corresponding to the pkey in the shadow register. Otherwise it will carry some spurious bits which can trigger false-positive asserts. cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c index 88dfa40..ba184ca 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c @@ -577,7 +577,8 @@ int sys_pkey_free(unsigned long pkey) int ret = syscall(SYS_pkey_free, pkey); if (!ret) - shadow_pkey_reg &= clear_pkey_flags(pkey, PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS); + shadow_pkey_reg &= clear_pkey_flags(pkey, + PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS | PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE); dprintf1("%s(pkey=%ld) syscall ret: %d\n", __func__, pkey, ret); return ret; } -- 1.7.1