On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:10:27PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> > > Hardware tag-based KASAN relies on Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) > feature and requires it to be enabled. MTE supports > > This patch adds a new mte_init_tags() helper, that enables MTE in > Synchronous mode in EL1 and is intended to be called from KASAN runtime > during initialization. There's no mte_init_tags() in this function. > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c > index 600b26d65b41..7f477991a6cf 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c > @@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ void *mte_set_mem_tag_range(void *addr, size_t size, u8 tag) > return ptr; > } > > +void mte_enable(void) > +{ > + /* Enable MTE Sync Mode for EL1. */ > + sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_MASK, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_SYNC); > + isb(); > +} Nitpick: maybe rename this to mte_enable_kernel() since MTE is already enabled for user apps. -- Catalin