On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 06:16:01PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > By default, even if PROT_MTE is set on a memory range, there is no tag > check fault reporting (SIGSEGV). Introduce a set of option to the > exiting prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL) to allow user control of the tag > check fault mode: > > PR_MTE_TCF_NONE - no reporting (default) > PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC - synchronous tag check fault reporting > PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC - asynchronous tag check fault reporting > > These options translate into the corresponding SCTLR_EL1.TCF0 bitfield, > context-switched by the kernel. Note that uaccess done by the kernel is > not checked and cannot be configured by the user. > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Notes: > v3: > - Use SCTLR_EL1_TCF0_NONE instead of 0 for consistency. > - Move mte_thread_switch() in this patch from an earlier one. In > addition, it is called after the dsb() in __switch_to() so that any > asynchronous tag check faults have been registered in the TFSR_EL1 > registers (to be added with the in-kernel MTE support. > > v2: > - Handle SCTLR_EL1_TCF0_NONE explicitly for consistency with PR_MTE_TCF_NONE. > - Fix SCTLR_EL1 register setting in flush_mte_state() (thanks to Peter > Collingbourne). > - Added ISB to update_sctlr_el1_tcf0() since, with the latest > architecture update/fix, the TCF0 field is used by the uaccess > routines. > > arch/arm64/include/asm/mte.h | 14 ++++++ > arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 3 ++ > arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 26 ++++++++-- > include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 6 +++ > 5 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Dave is working on man pages for prctl() (and I think also ptrace). I think it would be /very/ useful for us to have some RFC patches on top of his work adding documentation for the MTE interactions, as we found some other minor issues/inconsistencies as a direct result of writing and reviewing the man page for our existing interfaces. Cheers, Will
