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Message-ID: <20200827121604.GL29264@gaia>
Date:   Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:16:04 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
Cc:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        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 24/35] arm64: mte: Switch GCR_EL1 in kernel entry and exit

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:56:49AM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> On 8/27/20 11:38 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> >> index 7717ea9bc2a7..cfac7d02f032 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> >> @@ -18,10 +18,14 @@
> >>  
> >>  #include <asm/barrier.h>
> >>  #include <asm/cpufeature.h>
> >> +#include <asm/kasan.h>
> >> +#include <asm/kprobes.h>
> >>  #include <asm/mte.h>
> >>  #include <asm/ptrace.h>
> >>  #include <asm/sysreg.h>
> >>  
> >> +u64 gcr_kernel_excl __read_mostly;
> > 
> > Could we make this __ro_after_init?
> 
> Yes, it makes sense, it should be updated only once through mte_init_tags().
> 
> Something to consider though here is that this might not be the right approach
> if in future we want to add stack tagging. In such a case we need to know the
> kernel exclude mask before any C code is executed. Initializing the mask via
> mte_init_tags() it is too late.

It depends on how stack tagging ends up in the kernel, whether it uses
ADDG/SUBG or not. If it's only IRG, I think it can cope with changing
the GCR_EL1.Excl in the middle of a function.

> I was thinking to add a compilation define instead of having gcr_kernel_excl in
> place. This might not work if the kernel excl mask is meant to change during the
> execution.

A macro with the default value works for me. That's what it basically is
currently, only that it ends up in a variable.

-- 
Catalin