On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 01:29:11PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 05/20/2018 09:11 PM, Ram Pai wrote: > >Florian, > > > > Does the following patch fix the problem for you? Just like x86 > > I am enabling all keys in the UAMOR register during > > initialization itself. Hence any key created by any thread at > > any time, will get activated on all threads. So any thread > > can change the permission on that key. Smoke tested it > > with your test program. > > I think this goes in the right direction, but the AMR value after > fork is still strange: > > AMR (PID 34912): 0x0000000000000000 > AMR after fork (PID 34913): 0x0000000000000000 > AMR (PID 34913): 0x0000000000000000 > Allocated key in subprocess (PID 34913): 2 > Allocated key (PID 34912): 2 > Setting AMR: 0xffffffffffffffff > New AMR value (PID 34912): 0x0fffffffffffffff > About to call execl (PID 34912) ... > AMR (PID 34912): 0x0fffffffffffffff > AMR after fork (PID 34914): 0x0000000000000003 > AMR (PID 34914): 0x0000000000000003 > Allocated key in subprocess (PID 34914): 2 > Allocated key (PID 34912): 2 > Setting AMR: 0xffffffffffffffff > New AMR value (PID 34912): 0x0fffffffffffffff > > I mean this line: > > AMR after fork (PID 34914): 0x0000000000000003 > > Shouldn't it be the same as in the parent process? Fixed it. Please try this patch. If it all works to your satisfaction, I will clean it up further and send to Michael Ellermen(ppc maintainer). commit 51f4208ed5baeab1edb9b0f8b68d7144449b3527 Author: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Jun 3 14:44:32 2018 -0500 Fix for the fork bug. Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c index 1237f13..999dd08 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -582,6 +582,7 @@ static void save_all(struct task_struct *tsk) __giveup_spe(tsk); msr_check_and_clear(msr_all_available); + thread_pkey_regs_save(&tsk->thread); } void flush_all_to_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c index ab4519a..af6aa4a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c @@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ void thread_pkey_regs_save(struct thread_struct *thread) */ thread->amr = read_amr(); thread->iamr = read_iamr(); + thread->uamor = read_uamor(); } void thread_pkey_regs_restore(struct thread_struct *new_thread, @@ -315,9 +316,13 @@ void thread_pkey_regs_init(struct thread_struct *thread) if (static_branch_likely(&pkey_disabled)) return; - thread->amr = read_amr() & pkey_amr_mask; - thread->iamr = read_iamr() & pkey_iamr_mask; + thread->amr = pkey_amr_mask; + thread->iamr = pkey_iamr_mask; thread->uamor = pkey_uamor_mask; + + write_uamor(pkey_uamor_mask); + write_amr(pkey_amr_mask); + write_iamr(pkey_iamr_mask); } static inline bool pkey_allows_readwrite(int pkey) > > Thanks, > Florian -- Ram Pai