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[RFC,v6,48/62] selftest/vm: clear the bits in shadow reg when a pkey is freed.

Message ID 1500177424-13695-49-git-send-email-linuxram@us.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State RFC
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Ram Pai July 16, 2017, 3:56 a.m. UTC
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.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
index 0f2d1ce..4f4ce36 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;
 }