Re: [PATCH 26/35] kasan, arm64: Enable TBI EL1

From: Vincenzo Frascino
Date: Thu Aug 27 2020 - 11:15:12 EST




On 8/27/20 12:13 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:05:55PM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
>> On 8/27/20 11:40 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 07:27:08PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
>>>> index 152d74f2cc9c..6880ddaa5144 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
>>>> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
>>>> /* PTWs cacheable, inner/outer WBWA */
>>>> #define TCR_CACHE_FLAGS TCR_IRGN_WBWA | TCR_ORGN_WBWA
>>>>
>>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS
>>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS)
>>>> #define TCR_KASAN_FLAGS TCR_TBI1
>>>> #else
>>>> #define TCR_KASAN_FLAGS 0
>>>
>>> I prefer to turn TBI1 on only if MTE is present. So on top of the v8
>>> user series, just do this in __cpu_setup.
>>
>> Not sure I understand... Enabling TBI1 only if MTE is present would break
>> KASAN_SW_TAGS which is based on TBI1 but not on MTE.
>
> You keep the KASAN_SW_TAGS as above but for HW_TAGS, only set TBI1 later
> in __cpu_setup().
>

Ok, sounds good.

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Regards,
Vincenzo