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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/9] x86, pkeys: add pkey set/get syscalls

* Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> >
> >> > If we push a PKRU value into a thread between the rdpkru() and wrpkru(), we'll
> >> > lose the content of that "push". I'm not sure there's any way to guarantee
> >> > this with a user-controlled register.
> >>
> >> We could try to insist that user code uses some vsyscall helper that tracks
> >> which bits are as-yet-unassigned. That's quite messy, though.
> >
> > Actually, if we turned the vDSO into something more like a minimal user-space
> > library with the ability to run at process startup as well to prepare stuff
> > then it's painful to get right only *once*, and there will be tons of other
> > areas where a proper per thread data storage on the user-space side would be
> > immensely useful!
>
> Doing this could be tricky: how exactly is the vDSO supposed to find per-thread
> data without breaking existing glibc?

So I think the way this could be done is by allocating it itself. The vDSO vma
itself is 'external' to glibc as well to begin with - this would be a small
extension to that concept.

Thanks,

Ingo

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