Re: [PATCH v11 0/5] arm64: ARMv8.5-A: MTE: Add async mode support

[Vincenzo Frascino]

On 1/30/21 4:52 PM, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> This patchset implements the asynchronous mode support for ARMv8.5-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.
> 
> MTE is built on top of the AArch64 v8.0 virtual address tagging TBI
> (Top Byte Ignore) feature and allows a task to set a 4 bit tag on any
> subset of its address space that is multiple of a 16 bytes granule. MTE
> is based on a lock-key mechanism where the lock is the tag associated to
> the physical memory and the key is the tag associated to the virtual
> address.
> When MTE is enabled and tags are set for ranges of address space of a task,
> the PE will compare the tag related to the physical memory with the tag
> related to the virtual address (tag check operation). Access to the memory
> is granted only if the two tags match. In case of mismatch the PE will raise
> an exception.
> 
> The exception can be handled synchronously or asynchronously. When the
> asynchronous mode is enabled:
>   - Upon fault the PE updates the TFSR_EL1 register.
>   - The kernel detects the change during one of the following:
>     - Context switching
>     - Return to user/EL0
>     - Kernel entry from EL1
>     - Kernel exit to EL1
>   - If the register has been updated by the PE the kernel clears it and
>     reports the error.
> 
> The series is based on linux-next/akpm.
>

We are suspecting an issue with with the kernel access nofault functions
triggering async faults that impacts Android init process.
Please do not merge this series until this is sorted.

> To simplify the testing a tree with the new patches on top has been made
> available at [1].
> 
> [1] https://git.gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-vf.git mte/v10.async.akpm
> 
> Changes:
> --------
> v11:
>   - Added patch that disables KUNIT tests in async mode
> v10:
>   - Rebase on the latest linux-next/akpm
>   - Address review comments.
> v9:
>   - Rebase on the latest linux-next/akpm
>   - Address review comments.
> v8:
>   - Address review comments.
> v7:
>   - Fix a warning reported by kernel test robot. This
>     time for real.
> v6:
>   - Drop patches that forbid KASAN KUNIT tests when async
>     mode is enabled.
>   - Fix a warning reported by kernel test robot.
>   - Address review comments.
> v5:
>   - Rebase the series on linux-next/akpm.
>   - Forbid execution for KASAN KUNIT tests when async
>     mode is enabled.
>   - Dropped patch to inline mte_assign_mem_tag_range().
>   - Address review comments.
> v4:
>   - Added support for kasan.mode (sync/async) kernel
>     command line parameter.
>   - Addressed review comments.
> v3:
>   - Exposed kasan_hw_tags_mode to convert the internal
>     KASAN represenetation.
>   - Added dsb() for kernel exit paths in arm64.
>   - Addressed review comments.
> v2:
>   - Fixed a compilation issue reported by krobot.
>   - General cleanup.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Andrey Konovalov (1):
>   kasan: don't run tests in async mode
> 
> Vincenzo Frascino (4):
>   arm64: mte: Add asynchronous mode support
>   kasan: Add KASAN mode kernel parameter
>   kasan: Add report for async mode
>   arm64: mte: Enable async tag check fault
> 
>  Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst  |  9 +++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h    |  3 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h |  9 ++++-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/mte.h       | 32 ++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c   |  6 +++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c            | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/kasan.h              |  6 +++
>  lib/test_kasan.c                   |  6 ++-
>  mm/kasan/hw_tags.c                 | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  mm/kasan/kasan.h                   |  7 +++-
>  mm/kasan/report.c                  | 17 ++++++++-
>  11 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 

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Regards,
Vincenzo