From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755599AbcFARKk (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2016 13:10:40 -0400 Received: from www.sr71.net ([198.145.64.142]:42552 "EHLO blackbird.sr71.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751484AbcFARKj (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2016 13:10:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] pkeys: add details of system call use to Documentation/ To: Jonathan Corbet References: <20160531152814.36E0B9EE@viggo.jf.intel.com> <20160531152824.2B18E890@viggo.jf.intel.com> <20160601104333.7c2014fa@lwn.net> <574F114F.8010701@sr71.net> <20160601104937.098a89a2@lwn.net> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <574F170C.7060302@sr71.net> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 10:10:36 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160601104937.098a89a2@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/01/2016 09:49 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> > + sys_pkey_alloc(0, PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE | PKEY_DISABLE_READ); >> > + sys_pkey_mprotect(ptr, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE); >> > + something(ptr); > That should, IMO, be something like: > > key = pkey_alloc(...); > pkey_mprotect(ptr, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, key); That is true as well. I'll fix that up as well. Thanks for taking a look!