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.
cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com>
cc: Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linux...@us.ibm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
index ca54a95..aaf9f09 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
@@ -582,6 +582,9 @@ int alloc_pkey(void)
int sys_pkey_free(unsigned long pkey)
{
int ret = syscall(SYS_pkey_free, pkey);
+
+ if (!ret)
+ shadow_pkey_reg &= reset_bits(pkey, PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS);
dprintf1("%s(pkey=%ld) syscall ret: %d\n", __func__, pkey, ret);
return ret;
}
--
1.7.1
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