Re: [PATCH v7 40/41] x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK

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On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 03:04:10AM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> This is how the other arch_prctl()s handle it (if they do handle it,
> some don't). So I would think it would be nice to keep all the logic
> the same.
> 
> I guess the flag might work based on the assumption that if the task is
> being ptraced, the arch_prctl() couldn't be coming from anywhere else.
> Maybe it should get a nicely named helper that they could all use and
> whatever best logic could be commented.
> 
> Would this maybe be better as a future cleanup that did the change for
> them all?

Yeah, I'm just being overly paranoid.

Because if there's another way to unlock that feature, then this whole
"overhead" we're doing is for nothing.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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