linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 26/35] kasan, arm64: Enable TBI EL1

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Date:   Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:05:55 +0100
From:   Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        Elena Petrova <lenaptr@...gle.com>,
        Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@....com>,
        Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/35] kasan, arm64: Enable TBI EL1

On 8/27/20 11:40 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 07:27:08PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
>> index 152d74f2cc9c..6880ddaa5144 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
>> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
>>  /* PTWs cacheable, inner/outer WBWA */
>>  #define TCR_CACHE_FLAGS	TCR_IRGN_WBWA | TCR_ORGN_WBWA
>>  
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS)
>>  #define TCR_KASAN_FLAGS TCR_TBI1
>>  #else
>>  #define TCR_KASAN_FLAGS 0
> 
> I prefer to turn TBI1 on only if MTE is present. So on top of the v8
> user series, just do this in __cpu_setup.
> 

Not sure I understand... Enabling TBI1 only if MTE is present would break
KASAN_SW_TAGS which is based on TBI1 but not on MTE.

-- 
Regards,
Vincenzo