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: cf43d3b2 ("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>
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