On 06/13/2018 05:45 PM, Ram Pai wrote: > 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. ...--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c > @@ -556,6 +556,9 @@ int alloc_pkey(void) > 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); > dprintf1("%s(pkey=%ld) syscall ret: %d\n", __func__, pkey, ret); > return ret; > } This would be great code for an actual application. But, I'm not immediately convinced we want sane, kind behavior in our selftest. x86 doesn't clear the hardware register at pkey_free, so wouldn't this cause the shadow and the hardware register to diverge? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html