Re: [PATCH] pkeys: Introduce PKEY_ALLOC_SIGNALINHERIT and change signal semantics

[Andy Lutomirski]

> On May 14, 2018, at 5:01 AM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> One thing we could do, though: the current initual state on process
>> creation is all access blocked on all keys.  We could change it so that
>> half the keys are fully blocked and half are read-only.  Then we could add
>> a PKEY_ALLOC_STRICT or similar that allocates a key with the correct
>> initial state*and*  does the setsignal thing.  If there are no keys left
>> with the correct initial state, then it fails.
> 
> The initial PKRU value can currently be configured by the system 
> administrator.  I fear this approach has too many moving parts to be viable.
> 
> 

Honestly, I think we should drop that option. I don’t see how we can expect an 
administrator to do this usefully.