On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 01:43:20PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> > > It is not desirable to relax the ABI to allow tagged user addresses into > the kernel indiscriminately. This patch introduces a prctl() interface > for enabling or disabling the tagged ABI with a global sysctl control > for preventing applications from enabling the relaxed ABI (meant for > testing user-space prctl() return error checking without reconfiguring > the kernel). The ABI properties are inherited by threads of the same > application and fork()'ed children but cleared on execve(). > > The PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL will be expanded in the future to handle > MTE-specific settings like imprecise vs precise exceptions. > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> A question for the user-space folk: if an application opts in to this ABI, would you want the sigcontext.fault_address and/or siginfo.si_addr to contain the tag? We currently clear it early in the arm64 entry.S but we could find a way to pass it down if needed. -- Catalin
