Re: MPK: removing a pkey

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On 11/23/2017 12:11 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> No, the default is clearly 0 and documented to be so.  The PROT_EXEC
>> emulation one should be inaccessible in all the APIs so does not even
>> show up as *being* a key in the API.  The fact that it's implemented
>> with pkeys should be pretty immaterial other than the fact that you
>> can't touch the high bits in PKRU.
> So, just to be sure, if we call pkey_mprotect() with 0, will it blindly
> set 0, or the result of arch_override_mprotect_pkey() (thus equivalent
> to call with -1) ? I assume the latter?

It's supposed to set 0.

-1 was, as far as I remember, an internal-to-the-kernel-only thing to
tell us that a key came from *mprotect()* instead of pkey_mprotect().

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