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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2022-03-09 13:12:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> | 2022-03-09 18:14:56 +0000 |
| commit | cf220ad6749b8305ba11bdf601c55a17ad2a715d (patch) | |
| tree | 9b59d05da4a20ad31cc38dda19bb8535568436d1 /Documentation/arm64 | |
| parent | d8fd5a1e78db375f2246d43df7833fec07a221cd (diff) | |
arm64/mte: Remove asymmetric mode from the prctl() interface
As pointed out by Evgenii Stepanov one potential issue with the new ABI for
enabling asymmetric is that if there are multiple places where MTE is
configured in a process, some of which were compiled with the old prctl.h
and some of which were compiled with the new prctl.h, there may be problems
keeping track of which MTE modes are requested. For example some code may
disable only sync and async modes leaving asymmetric mode enabled when it
intended to fully disable MTE.
In order to avoid such mishaps remove asymmetric mode from the prctl(),
instead implicitly allowing it if both sync and async modes are requested.
This should not disrupt userspace since a process requesting both may
already see a mix of sync and async modes due to differing defaults between
CPUs or changes in default while the process is running but it does mean
that userspace is unable to explicitly request asymmetric mode without
changing the system default for CPUs.
Reported-by: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: Branislav Rankov <branislav.rankov@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220309131200.112637-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm64')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst b/Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst index 42677d48a114..7e812a51e506 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst @@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ bit-field: (ignored if combined with other options) - ``PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC`` - *Synchronous* tag check fault mode - ``PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC`` - *Asynchronous* tag check fault mode -- ``PR_MTE_TCF_ASYMM`` - *Asymmetric* tag check fault mode If no modes are specified, tag check faults are ignored. If a single mode is specified, the program will run in that mode. If multiple @@ -149,17 +148,19 @@ default preferred mode for each CPU is ``async``. To allow a program to potentially run in the CPU's preferred tag checking mode, the user program may set multiple tag check fault mode bits in the ``flags`` argument to the ``prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, -flags, 0, 0, 0)`` system call. If the CPU's preferred tag checking -mode is in the task's set of provided tag checking modes, that -mode will be selected. Otherwise, one of the modes in the task's mode -selected by the kernel using the preference order: +flags, 0, 0, 0)`` system call. If both synchronous and asynchronous +modes are requested then asymmetric mode may also be selected by the +kernel. If the CPU's preferred tag checking mode is in the task's set +of provided tag checking modes, that mode will be selected. Otherwise, +one of the modes in the task's mode will be selected by the kernel +from the task's mode set using the preference order: 1. Asynchronous 2. Asymmetric 3. Synchronous -If asymmetric mode is specified by the program but not supported by -either the system or the kernel then an error will be returned. +Note that there is no way for userspace to request multiple modes and +also disable asymmetric mode. Initial process state --------------------- |