Re: [patch V3 4/6] x86/pkru: Make PKRU=0 actually work

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Tue Jun 08 2021 - 12:07:49 EST


On 6/8/21 7:36 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> When user space brings PKRU into init state, then the kernel handling is
> broken:

Nit: while setting PKRU=0 _can_ trigger this issue (on AMD), the
underlying problem is truly with the init state and not simply with any
wrpkru(0). IOW, I like the changelog better than the subject.

Maybe something like this would be more precise:

x86/pkru: Write hardware init value to PKRU when xstate is init