On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 07:03:36PM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote: > > How is the application denied setting the permissions on key 0 if it > can program the register directly?
There is a UAMOR register. The userspace can change the permissions of a given key; by modifying the bits in AMOR register, only if the kernel has set the corresponding bit in the UAMOR register. For key-0 the kernel does not set the corresponding UAMOR bit. RP