linux/arch/powerpc
Ram Pai a57a04c76e powerpc/pkeys: Give all threads control of their key permissions
Currently in a multithreaded application, a key allocated by one
thread is not usable by other threads. By "not usable" we mean that
other threads are unable to change the access permissions for that
key for themselves.

When a new key is allocated in one thread, the corresponding UAMOR
bits for that thread get enabled, however the UAMOR bits for that key
for all other threads remain disabled.

Other threads have no way to set permissions on the key, and the
current default permissions are that read/write is enabled for all
keys, which means the key has no effect for other threads. Although
that may be the desired behaviour in some circumstances, having all
threads able to control their permissions for the key is more
flexible.

The current behaviour also differs from the x86 behaviour, which is
problematic for users.

To fix this, enable the UAMOR bits for all keys, at process
creation (in start_thread(), ie exec time). Since the contents of
UAMOR are inherited at fork, all threads are capable of modifying the
permissions on any key.

This is technically an ABI break on powerpc, but pkey support is fairly
new on powerpc and not widely used, and this brings us into
line with x86.

Fixes: cf43d3b264 ("powerpc: Enable pkey subsystem")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.16+
Tested-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
[mpe: Reword some of the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-07-24 21:32:33 +10:00
..
boot powerpc/dts: Use a correct at24 compatible fallback in ac14xx 2018-07-10 10:58:40 +10:00
configs powerpc/embedded6xx: Remove C2K board support 2018-06-04 00:39:22 +10:00
crypto crypto: hash - annotate algorithms taking optional key 2018-01-12 23:03:35 +11:00
include Merge branch 'topic/ppc-kvm' into next 2018-07-19 14:37:57 +10:00
kernel powerpc/prom_init: Remove linux,stdout-package property 2018-07-20 12:50:51 +10:00
kvm powerpc/powernv/ioda: Allocate indirect TCE levels on demand 2018-07-16 22:53:11 +10:00
lib treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
math-emu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mm powerpc/pkeys: Give all threads control of their key permissions 2018-07-24 21:32:33 +10:00
net treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
oprofile treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
perf powerpc/64s: Remove POWER9 DD1 support 2018-07-16 11:37:21 +10:00
platforms powerpc/powernv/npu: Add a debugfs setting to change ATSD threshold 2018-07-19 21:58:10 +10:00
purgatory License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
sysdev powerpc/mpic: Pass first free vector number to mpic_setup_error_int() 2018-07-19 21:58:09 +10:00
tools powerpc/kbuild: move -mprofile-kernel check to Kconfig 2018-06-11 09:16:29 +09:00
xmon Merge branch 'topic/ppc-kvm' into next 2018-07-19 14:37:57 +10:00
Kconfig powerpc: Enable kernel XZ compression option on BOOK3S_32 2018-07-04 22:41:10 +10:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Add new kconfig CONFIG_PPC_IRQ_SOFT_MASK_DEBUG 2018-01-19 22:37:03 +11:00
Makefile powerpc/e500mc: Set assembler machine type to e500mc 2018-06-19 21:28:20 +10:00
Makefile.postlink License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00