From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
To: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
hbabu@us.ibm.com, mhocko@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v7 24/25] powerpc: Deliver SEGV signal on pkey violation
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:25:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171018132548.1170ba58@firefly.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170818223655.GE5545@ram.oc3035372033.ibm.com>
On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:36:55 -0700
Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 07:54:20AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 10:04 -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> > > Assume two threads of a task.
> > >
> > > T1: mprotect_key(foo, PAGE_SIZE, pkey=4);
> > > T1: set AMR to disable access for pkey 4;
> > > T1: key fault
> > > T2: set AMR to enable access to pkey 4;
> > > T1: fault handler called.
> > > This fault handler will see the new AMR and not the
> > > one at the time of the fault.
> >
> > You aren't context switching AMR with the threads ? Ugh... something is
> > very wrong then.
>
> I do store and restore AMR accross context switch. So nevermind; the
> above problem cannot happen.
>
I think the assumption is that pkey_alloc() will do the right thing
while allocating keys across threads
Balbir Singh.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-18 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-31 0:12 [RFC v7 00/25] powerpc: Memory Protection Keys Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 01/25] powerpc: define an additional vma bit for protection keys Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 02/25] powerpc: track allocation status of all pkeys Ram Pai
2017-08-10 20:25 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2017-08-11 5:39 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-17 16:00 ` Ram Pai
2017-08-17 15:48 ` Ram Pai
2017-08-17 20:40 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2017-10-18 2:42 ` Balbir Singh
2017-10-18 3:40 ` Ram Pai
2017-10-18 16:08 ` Laurent Dufour
2017-10-18 22:04 ` Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 03/25] powerpc: helper function to read, write AMR, IAMR, UAMOR registers Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 04/25] powerpc: helper functions to initialize AMR, IAMR and " Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 05/25] powerpc: cleaup AMR, iAMR when a key is allocated or freed Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 06/25] powerpc: implementation for arch_set_user_pkey_access() Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 07/25] powerpc: sys_pkey_alloc() and sys_pkey_free() system calls Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 08/25] powerpc: ability to create execute-disabled pkeys Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 09/25] powerpc: store and restore the pkey state across context switches Ram Pai
2017-08-10 20:46 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2017-08-11 6:34 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-17 16:41 ` Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 10/25] powerpc: introduce execute-only pkey Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 11/25] powerpc: ability to associate pkey to a vma Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 12/25] powerpc: implementation for arch_override_mprotect_pkey() Ram Pai
2017-10-18 15:58 ` Laurent Dufour
2017-10-18 21:37 ` Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 13/25] powerpc: map vma key-protection bits to pte key bits Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 14/25] powerpc: sys_pkey_mprotect() system call Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 15/25] powerpc: Program HPTE key protection bits Ram Pai
2017-10-18 16:15 ` Laurent Dufour
2017-10-18 22:12 ` Ram Pai
2017-10-19 5:12 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 16/25] powerpc: helper to validate key-access permissions of a pte Ram Pai
2017-10-18 16:08 ` Laurent Dufour
2017-10-18 21:56 ` Ram Pai
2017-10-19 5:13 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 17/25] powerpc: check key protection for user page access Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 18/25] powerpc: Macro the mask used for checking DSI exception Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 19/25] powerpc: implementation for arch_vma_access_permitted() Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 20/25] powerpc: Handle exceptions caused by pkey violation Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 21/25] powerpc: capture AMR register content on " Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 22/25] powerpc: introduce get_pte_pkey() helper Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 23/25] powerpc: capture the violated protection key on fault Ram Pai
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 24/25] powerpc: Deliver SEGV signal on pkey violation Ram Pai
2017-08-10 21:00 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2017-08-11 10:26 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-17 17:14 ` Ram Pai
2017-08-18 4:48 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-18 17:04 ` Ram Pai
2017-08-18 21:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-08-18 22:36 ` Ram Pai
2017-10-18 2:25 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2017-10-18 3:01 ` Ram Pai
2017-08-18 22:49 ` Ram Pai
2017-08-19 8:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-07-31 0:12 ` [RFC v7 25/25] powerpc: Enable pkey subsystem Ram Pai
2017-08-10 21:27 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2017-08-17 17:40 ` Ram Pai
2017-08-17 20:30 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2017-08-17 23:48 ` Ram Pai
2017-08-18 5:07 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-18 15:26 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2017-08-18 16:32 ` Ram Pai
2017-08-11 17:34 ` [RFC v7 26/25] mm/mprotect, powerpc/mm/pkeys, x86/mm/pkeys: Add sysfs interface Thiago Jung Bauermann
2017-08-18 0:25 ` Ram Pai
2017-08-18 23:19 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
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