Re: [PATCH v4 29/39] arm64: mte: Switch GCR_EL1 in kernel entry and exit

[Catalin Marinas]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 07:24:12PM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> On 10/2/20 3:06 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 01:10:30AM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> >> index 7c67ac6f08df..d1847f29f59b 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> >> @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
> >>  #include <asm/ptrace.h>
> >>  #include <asm/sysreg.h>
> >>  
> >> +u64 gcr_kernel_excl __ro_after_init;
> >> +
> >>  static void mte_sync_page_tags(struct page *page, pte_t *ptep, bool check_swap)
> >>  {
> >>  	pte_t old_pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
> >> @@ -120,6 +122,13 @@ void *mte_set_mem_tag_range(void *addr, size_t size, u8 tag)
> >>  	return ptr;
> >>  }
> >>  
> >> +void mte_init_tags(u64 max_tag)
> >> +{
> >> +	u64 incl = GENMASK(max_tag & MTE_TAG_MAX, 0);
> > 
> > Nitpick: it's not obvious that MTE_TAG_MAX is a mask, so better write
> > this as GENMASK(min(max_tag, MTE_TAG_MAX), 0).
> 
> The two things do not seem equivalent because the format of the tags in KASAN is
> 0xFF and in MTE is 0xF, hence if extract the minimum whatever is the tag passed
> by KASAN it will always be MTE_TAG_MAX.
> 
> To make it cleaner I propose: GENMASK(FIELD_GET(MTE_TAG_MAX, max_tag), 0);

I don't think that's any clearer since FIELD_GET still assumes that
MTE_TAG_MAX is a mask. I think it's better to add a comment on why this
is needed, as you explained above that the KASAN tags go to 0xff.

If you want to get rid of MTE_TAG_MAX altogether, just do a

	max_tag &= (1 << MAX_TAG_SIZE) - 1;

before setting incl (a comment is still useful).

-- 
Catalin