linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm v10 28/42] arm64: kasan: Allow enabling in-kernel MTE

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Date:   Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:47:56 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@....com>,
        Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm v10 28/42] arm64: kasan: Allow enabling in-kernel MTE

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:15:56PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
> 
> Hardware tag-based KASAN relies on Memory Tagging Extension (MTE)
> feature and requires it to be enabled. MTE supports
> 
> This patch adds a new mte_enable_kernel() helper, that enables MTE in
> Synchronous mode in EL1 and is intended to be called from KASAN runtime
> during initialization.
> 
> The Tag Checking operation causes a synchronous data abort as
> a consequence of a tag check fault when MTE is configured in
> synchronous mode.
> 
> As part of this change enable match-all tag for EL1 to allow the
> kernel to access user pages without faulting. This is required because
> the kernel does not have knowledge of the tags set by the user in a
> page.
> 
> Note: For MTE, the TCF bit field in SCTLR_EL1 affects only EL1 in a
> similar way as TCF0 affects EL0.
> 
> MTE that is built on top of the Top Byte Ignore (TBI) feature hence we
> enable it as part of this patch as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
> Co-developed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>