On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 08:20:22AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 06/13/2018 05:45 PM, Ram Pai wrote: > > Generally the signal handler restores the state of the pkey register > > before returning. However there are times when the read/write operation > > can legitamely fail without invoking the signal handler. Eg: A > > sys_read() operaton to a write-protected page should be disallowed. In > > such a case the state of the pkey register is not restored to its > > original state. The test case is responsible for restoring the key > > register state to its original value. > > Seems fragile. Can't we just do this in common code? We could just > loop through and restore the default permissions. That seems much more > resistant to a bad test case. Yes. done. fixed it the way you suggested in the new version. -- Ram Pai -- 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
