Thread (107 messages) 107 messages, 6 authors, 2020-11-13

Re: [PATCH v9 30/44] arm64: kasan: Allow enabling in-kernel MTE

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2020-11-12 09:44:01
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:10:27PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.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_init_tags() helper, that enables MTE in
Synchronous mode in EL1 and is intended to be called from KASAN runtime
during initialization.
There's no mte_init_tags() in this function.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
index 600b26d65b41..7f477991a6cf 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
@@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ void *mte_set_mem_tag_range(void *addr, size_t size, u8 tag)
 	return ptr;
 }
 
+void mte_enable(void)
+{
+	/* Enable MTE Sync Mode for EL1. */
+	sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_MASK, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_SYNC);
+	isb();
+}
Nitpick: maybe rename this to mte_enable_kernel() since MTE is already
enabled for user apps.

-- 
Catalin

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