LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	shakeelb@google.com, stable@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mpe@ellerman.id.au, mingo@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	shuah@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] x86, pkeys: override pkey when moving away from PROT_EXEC
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 17:47:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e3f8e1c-afed-64de-9815-8478e18532aa@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180407000943.GA15890@ram.oc3035372033.ibm.com>

On 04/06/2018 05:09 PM, Ram Pai wrote:
>> -	/*
>> -	 * Look for a protection-key-drive execute-only mapping
>> -	 * which is now being given permissions that are not
>> -	 * execute-only.  Move it back to the default pkey.
>> -	 */
>> -	if (vma_is_pkey_exec_only(vma) &&
>> -	    (prot & (PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE))) {
>> -		return 0;
>> -	}
>> +
> Dave,
> 	this can be simply:
> 
> 	if ((vma_is_pkey_exec_only(vma) && (prot != PROT_EXEC))
> 		return ARCH_DEFAULT_PKEY;

Yes, but we're removing that code entirely. :)

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-07  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-26 17:27 [PATCH 0/9] [v2] x86, pkeys: two protection keys bug fixes Dave Hansen
2018-03-26 17:27 ` [PATCH 1/9] x86, pkeys: do not special case protection key 0 Dave Hansen
2018-03-26 17:47   ` Shuah Khan
2018-03-26 17:53     ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-26 17:58       ` Shuah Khan
2018-03-26 17:27 ` [PATCH 2/9] x86, pkeys, selftests: save off 'prot' for allocations Dave Hansen
2018-03-26 17:27 ` [PATCH 3/9] x86, pkeys, selftests: add a test for pkey 0 Dave Hansen
2018-03-26 17:27 ` [PATCH 4/9] x86, pkeys: override pkey when moving away from PROT_EXEC Dave Hansen
2018-04-07  0:09   ` Ram Pai
2018-04-07  0:47     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2018-04-07  1:09       ` Ram Pai
2018-04-26 17:57         ` Dave Hansen
2018-04-30  7:51           ` Ram Pai
2018-04-30 16:36             ` Dave Hansen
2018-04-25 22:10   ` Shakeel Butt
2018-04-26  8:55     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-04-26 18:17       ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-26 17:27 ` [PATCH 5/9] x86, pkeys, selftests: fix pointer math Dave Hansen
2018-03-26 17:27 ` [PATCH 6/9] x86, pkeys, selftests: fix pkey exhaustion test off-by-one Dave Hansen
2018-03-26 17:27 ` [PATCH 7/9] x86, pkeys, selftests: factor out "instruction page" Dave Hansen
2018-03-26 17:27 ` [PATCH 8/9] x86, pkeys, selftests: add allow faults on unknown keys Dave Hansen
2018-03-26 17:27 ` [PATCH 9/9] x86, pkeys, selftests: add PROT_EXEC test Dave Hansen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-04-27 17:45 [PATCH 0/9] [v3] x86, pkeys: two protection keys bug fixes Dave Hansen
2018-04-27 17:45 ` [PATCH 4/9] x86, pkeys: override pkey when moving away from PROT_EXEC Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 18:09 [PATCH 0/9] x86, pkeys: two protection keys bug fixes Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 18:09 ` [PATCH 4/9] x86, pkeys: override pkey when moving away from PROT_EXEC Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 19:15   ` Shakeel Butt
2018-03-23 19:23     ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 19:27       ` Shakeel Butt
2018-03-23 19:29         ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-23 19:38       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-23 19:45         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-23 19:48           ` Dave Hansen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=6e3f8e1c-afed-64de-9815-8478e18532aa@intel.com \
    --to=dave.hansen@intel.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=dave.hansen@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=linuxram@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=mingo@kernel.org \
    --cc=mpe@ellerman.id.au \
    --cc=shakeelb@google.com \
    --cc=shuah@kernel.org \
    --cc=stable@kernel.org \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).