Re: pkeys on POWER: Access rights not reset on execve

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On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 07:57:46PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 06/04/2018 04:01 PM, Ram Pai wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 12:12:07PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >>On 06/03/2018 10:18 PM, Ram Pai wrote:
> >>>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>
> >>
> >>Is this on top of the previous patch, or a separate fix?
> >
> >top of previous patch.
> 
> Thanks.  With this patch, I get this on an LPAR:
> 
> AMR (PID 1876): 0x0000000000000003
> AMR after fork (PID 1877): 0x0000000000000003
> AMR (PID 1877): 0x0000000000000003
> Allocated key in subprocess (PID 1877): 2
> Allocated key (PID 1876): 2
> Setting AMR: 0xffffffffffffffff
> New AMR value (PID 1876): 0x0fffffffffffffff
> About to call execl (PID 1876) ...
> AMR (PID 1876): 0x0000000000000003
> AMR after fork (PID 1878): 0x0000000000000003
> AMR (PID 1878): 0x0000000000000003
> Allocated key in subprocess (PID 1878): 2
> Allocated key (PID 1876): 2
> Setting AMR: 0xffffffffffffffff
> New AMR value (PID 1876): 0x0fffffffffffffff
> 
> Test program is still this one:
> 
> <https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2018-May/173198.html>
> 
> So the process starts out with a different AMR value for some
> reason. That could be a pre-existing bug that was just hidden by the
> reset-to-zero on fork, or it could be intentional.  But the kernel

yes it is a bug, a patch for which is lined up for submission..

The fix is


commit eaf5b2ac002ad2f5bca118d7ce075ce28311aa8e
Author: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Jun 4 10:58:44 2018 -0500

    powerpc/pkeys: fix total pkeys calculation
    
    Total number of pkeys calculation is off by 1. Fix it.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c
index 4530cdf..3384c4e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ int pkey_initialize(void)
 	 * arch-neutral code.
 	 */
 	pkeys_total = min_t(int, pkeys_total,
-			(ARCH_VM_PKEY_FLAGS >> VM_PKEY_SHIFT));
+			((ARCH_VM_PKEY_FLAGS >> VM_PKEY_SHIFT)+1));
 
 	if (!pkey_mmu_enabled() || radix_enabled() || !pkeys_total)
 		static_branch_enable(&pkey_disabled);





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