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.
Note that this is a relaxation of the ABI.
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
---
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 9ff9a271cf01..b9402d8b5a90 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1110,14 +1110,6 @@ 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;
}
--
2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog
