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[RESEND,v4,1/3] mm/pkey: Add PKEY_UNRESTRICTED macro

Message ID 20241209094719.2431126-2-yury.khrustalev@arm.com
State New
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Series mm/pkey: Add PKEY_UNRESTRICTED macro | expand

Commit Message

Yury Khrustalev Dec. 9, 2024, 9:47 a.m. UTC 
Memory protection keys (pkeys) uapi has two macros for pkeys restrictions:

 - PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS 0x1
 - PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE  0x2

with implicit literal value of 0x0 that means "unrestricted". Code that
works with pkeys has to use this literal value when implying that a pkey
imposes no restrictions. This may reduce readability because 0 can be
written in various ways (e.g. 0x0 or 0) and also because 0 in the context
of pkeys can be mistaken for "no permissions" (akin PROT_NONE) while it
actually means "no restrictions". This is important because pkeys are
oftentimes used near mprotect() that uses PROT_ macros.

This patch adds PKEY_UNRESTRICTED macro defined as 0x0.

Signed-off-by: Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
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 include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
index 1ea2c4c33b86..ef1c27fa3c57 100644
--- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
+++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ 
 /* compatibility flags */
 #define MAP_FILE	0
 
+#define PKEY_UNRESTRICTED	0x0
 #define PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS	0x1
 #define PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE	0x2
 #define PKEY_ACCESS_MASK	(PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS |\