linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] arm64: ARMv8.7-A: MTE: Add asymm in-kernel support

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Date:   Wed, 6 Oct 2021 09:05:30 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....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>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] arm64: ARMv8.7-A: MTE: Add asymm in-kernel support

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 03:25:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon,  4 Oct 2021 21:22:48 +0100 Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com> wrote:
> 
> > This series implements the in-kernel asymmetric mode support for
> > ARMv8.7-A Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), which is a debugging feature
> > that allows to detect with the help of the architecture the C and C++
> > programmatic memory errors like buffer overflow, use-after-free,
> > use-after-return, etc.
> 
> I'm not sure which subsystem tree you were targeting here, so I grabbed
> them.  I'll drop the -mm copy if this material pops up in a linux-next
> via a different tree.

I'll queue 'em via the arm64 tree, as we already have some MTE work over
there and most of this series seems to be arch changes.

Cheers,

Will