From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH v6 09/11] arm64: update Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:41:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <594756b2aa9fea948f4da3cd01ffa8a5acbc5805.1535629099.git.andreyknvl@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1535629099.git.andreyknvl@google.com>
Add a note that work on passing tagged user pointers to the kernel via
syscalls has started, but might not be complete yet.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
---
Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt
index a25a99e82bb1..361481283f00 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt
@@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ Using non-zero address tags in any of these locations may result in an
error code being returned, a (fatal) signal being raised, or other modes
of failure.
-For these reasons, passing non-zero address tags to the kernel via
-system calls is forbidden, and using a non-zero address tag for sp is
+Some initial work for supporting non-zero address tags passed to the
+kernel via system calls has been done, but the kernel doesn't provide
+any guarantees at this point. Using a non-zero address tag for sp is
strongly discouraged.
Programs maintaining a frame pointer and frame records that use non-zero
--
2.19.0.rc0.228.g281dcd1b4d0-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-30 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-30 11:41 [PATCH v6 00/11] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v6 01/11] arm64: add type casts to untagged_addr macro Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v6 02/11] uaccess: add untagged_addr definition for other arches Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v6 03/11] arm64: untag user addresses in access_ok and __uaccess_mask_ptr Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v6 04/11] mm, arm64: untag user addresses in mm/gup.c Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v6 05/11] lib, arm64: untag addrs passed to strncpy_from_user and strnlen_user Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v6 06/11] arm64: untag user address in __do_user_fault Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v6 07/11] fs, arm64: untag user address in copy_mount_options Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v6 08/11] usb, arm64: untag user addresses in devio Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-30 11:41 ` Andrey Konovalov [this message]
2018-08-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v6 10/11] selftests, arm64: add a selftest for passing tagged pointers to kernel Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v6 11/11] arm64: annotate user pointers casts detected by sparse Andrey Konovalov
2018-08-31 8:11 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-08-31 13:42 ` Al Viro
2018-09-03 12:34 ` Andrey Konovalov
2018-09-03 13:49 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-09-03 15:10 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-09-04 11:27 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-09-05 19:03 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-09-06 14:13 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2018-09-06 20:10 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-09-03 13:56 ` Al Viro
2018-09-06 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 21:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 23:08 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-09-07 15:26 ` Catalin Marinas
2018-09-07 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-11 16:41 ` Catalin Marinas
2018-09-17 17:01 ` Andrey Konovalov
2018-09-24 15:04 ` Andrey Konovalov
2018-09-28 17:50 ` Catalin Marinas
2018-10-02 13:19 ` Andrey Konovalov
2018-09-14 1:25 ` [LKP] [arm64] 7b5b51e7b3: kvm-unit-tests.rmap_chain.fail kernel test robot
2018-08-30 11:48 ` [PATCH v6 00/11] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel Andrey Konovalov
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