Re: [RFC v6 35/62] powerpc: Deliver SEGV signal on pkey violation

[Ram Pai]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 02:09:58PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> > index d4e545d..fe1e7c7 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
> > @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/sched/debug.h>
> >  #include <linux/kernel.h>
> >  #include <linux/mm.h>
> > +#include <linux/pkeys.h>
> >  #include <linux/stddef.h>
> >  #include <linux/unistd.h>
> >  #include <linux/ptrace.h>
> > @@ -247,6 +248,15 @@ void user_single_step_siginfo(struct task_struct *tsk,
> >  	info->si_addr = (void __user *)regs->nip;
> >  }
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
> > +static void fill_sig_info_pkey(int si_code, siginfo_t *info, unsigned long addr)
> > +{
> > +	if (si_code != SEGV_PKUERR)
> > +		return;
> 
> Given that SEGV_PKUERR is a signal specific si_code this test is
> insufficient to detect an pkey error.  You also need to check
> that signr == SIGSEGV

true. will make it a more precise check.

Thanks
RP