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authorWang Kai <morgan.wang@huawei.com>2017-07-24 21:03:46 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-07-25 11:28:13 +0200
commitf90e2d9a5235bdcfcf1979f5e4b40684e778d18b (patch)
tree1d47a32fd01dc75e8ed388128db66a33b1389e4d /Documentation/x86
parent04b67022fb6d5b13025591f61a487a6ef7f4f05c (diff)
x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
Replace PKEY_DENY_WRITE with PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE, to match the source code. Signed-off-by: Wang Kai <morgan.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
index b64304540821..fa46dcb347bc 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ with a key. In this example WRPKRU is wrapped by a C function
called pkey_set().
int real_prot = PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE;
- pkey = pkey_alloc(0, PKEY_DENY_WRITE);
+ pkey = pkey_alloc(0, PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE);
ptr = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_NONE, MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
ret = pkey_mprotect(ptr, PAGE_SIZE, real_prot, pkey);
... application runs here
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ called pkey_set().
Now, if the application needs to update the data at 'ptr', it can
gain access, do the update, then remove its write access:
- pkey_set(pkey, 0); // clear PKEY_DENY_WRITE
+ pkey_set(pkey, 0); // clear PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE
*ptr = foo; // assign something
- pkey_set(pkey, PKEY_DENY_WRITE); // set PKEY_DENY_WRITE again
+ pkey_set(pkey, PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE); // set PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE again
Now when it frees the memory, it will also free the pkey since it
is no longer in use: