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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] x86, pkeys: do not special case protection key 0
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On 03/17/2018 02:12 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> This is a bit nicer than what Ram proposed because it is simpler
>> and removes special-casing for pkey 0. On the other hand, it does
>> allow applciations to pkey_free() pkey-0, but that's just a silly
>> thing to do, so we are not going to protect against it.
> What's the consequence of that? Application crashing and burning itself or
> something more subtle?

You would have to:

pkey_free(0)
... later
new_key = pkey_alloc();
// now new_key=0
pkey_deny_access(new_key); // or whatever

At which point most apps would probably croak because its stack is
inaccessible. The free itself does not make the key inaccessible, *but*
we could also do that within the existing ABI if we want. I think I
called out that behavior as undefined in the manpage.

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