On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 12:18:47AM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c > index 14b0c19a33e3..cc7e0f8707f7 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); > @@ -123,6 +125,23 @@ void *mte_set_mem_tag_range(void *addr, size_t size, u8 tag) > > void __init mte_init_tags(u64 max_tag) > { > + static bool gcr_kernel_excl_initialized = false; > + > + if (!gcr_kernel_excl_initialized) { > + /* > + * The format of the tags in KASAN is 0xFF and in MTE is 0xF. > + * This conversion extracts an MTE tag from a KASAN tag. > + */ > + u64 incl = GENMASK(FIELD_GET(MTE_TAG_MASK >> MTE_TAG_SHIFT, > + max_tag), 0); > + > + gcr_kernel_excl = ~incl & SYS_GCR_EL1_EXCL_MASK; > + gcr_kernel_excl_initialized = true; > + } > + > + /* Enable the kernel exclude mask for random tags generation. */ > + write_sysreg_s(SYS_GCR_EL1_RRND | gcr_kernel_excl, SYS_GCR_EL1); Same question as on a previous patch. Is SYS_GCR_EL1 written on the other registers via cpu_enable_mte()? -- Catalin