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Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] KVM: arm64: permit all VM_MTE_ALLOWED mappings with MTE enabled

From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-09-12 16:27:58
Also in: kvm, kvmarm

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:30:32 +0100,
Peter Collingbourne [off-list ref] wrote:
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Certain VMMs such as crosvm have features (e.g. sandboxing) that depend
on being able to map guest memory as MAP_SHARED. The current restriction
on sharing MAP_SHARED pages with the guest is preventing the use of
those features with MTE. Now that the races between tasks concurrently
clearing tags on the same page have been fixed, remove this restriction.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index d54be80e31dd..fc65dc20655d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1075,14 +1075,6 @@ static void sanitise_mte_tags(struct kvm *kvm, kvm_pfn_t pfn,
 
 static bool kvm_vma_mte_allowed(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
-	/*
-	 * VM_SHARED mappings are not allowed with MTE to avoid races
-	 * when updating the PG_mte_tagged page flag, see
-	 * sanitise_mte_tags for more details.
-	 */
-	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
-		return false;
-
 	return vma->vm_flags & VM_MTE_ALLOWED;
 }
 
Can you provide a pointer to some VMM making use of this functionality
and enabling MTE? A set of crosvm patches (for example) would be
useful to evaluate this series.

Thanks,

	M.

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