linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 19/35] kasan: don't allow SW_TAGS with ARM64

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Date:   Thu, 27 Aug 2020 09:04:43 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....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 19/35] kasan: don't allow SW_TAGS with ARM64_MTE

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 07:27:01PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Software tag-based KASAN provides its own tag checking machinery that
> can conflict with MTE. Don't allow enabling software tag-based KASAN
> when MTE is enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> ---
>  lib/Kconfig.kasan | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> index b4cf6c519d71..e500c18cbe79 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ config KASAN_GENERIC
>  config KASAN_SW_TAGS
>  	bool "Software tag-based mode"
>  	depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
> +	depends on !ARM64_MTE

I think that's better as:

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 10cf81d70657..736c32bd8905 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ config ARM64
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if !(ARM64_16K_PAGES && ARM64_VA_BITS_48)
-	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN
+	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && !ARM64_MTE
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
 	select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
 	select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if COMPAT

-- 
Catalin