Re: [PATCH v13 1/7] arm64: mte: Add asynchronous mode support

[Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 4:34 PM Vincenzo Frascino
<vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> wrote:
>
> MTE provides an asynchronous mode for detecting tag exceptions. In
> particular instead of triggering a fault the arm64 core updates a
> register which is checked by the kernel after the asynchronous tag
> check fault has occurred.
>
> Add support for MTE asynchronous mode.
>
> The exception handling mechanism will be added with a future patch.
>
> Note: KASAN HW activates async mode via kasan.mode kernel parameter.
> The default mode is set to synchronous.
> The code that verifies the status of TFSR_EL1 will be added with a
> future patch.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h    |  3 ++-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h |  9 +++++++--
>  arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c            | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
>  3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> index c759faf7a1ff..91515383d763 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> @@ -243,7 +243,8 @@ static inline const void *__tag_set(const void *addr, u8 tag)
>  }
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS
> -#define arch_enable_tagging()                  mte_enable_kernel()
> +#define arch_enable_tagging_sync()             mte_enable_kernel_sync()
> +#define arch_enable_tagging_async()            mte_enable_kernel_async()

We need to update KASAN usage of arch_enable_tagging() to
arch_enable_tagging_sync() in this patch as well. Otherwise, this
leaves KASAN broken between this patch and the next one.


>  #define arch_set_tagging_report_once(state)    mte_set_report_once(state)
>  #define arch_init_tags(max_tag)                        mte_init_tags(max_tag)
>  #define arch_get_random_tag()                  mte_get_random_tag()
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h
> index 7ab500e2ad17..4acf8bf41cad 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h
> @@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ static inline void mte_set_mem_tag_range(void *addr, size_t size, u8 tag)
>         } while (curr != end);
>  }
>
> -void mte_enable_kernel(void);
> +void mte_enable_kernel_sync(void);
> +void mte_enable_kernel_async(void);
>  void mte_init_tags(u64 max_tag);
>
>  void mte_set_report_once(bool state);
> @@ -104,7 +105,11 @@ static inline void mte_set_mem_tag_range(void *addr, size_t size, u8 tag)
>  {
>  }
>
> -static inline void mte_enable_kernel(void)
> +static inline void mte_enable_kernel_sync(void)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +static inline void mte_enable_kernel_async(void)
>  {
>  }
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> index a66c2806fc4d..706b7ab75f31 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> @@ -107,13 +107,26 @@ void mte_init_tags(u64 max_tag)
>         write_sysreg_s(SYS_GCR_EL1_RRND | gcr_kernel_excl, SYS_GCR_EL1);
>  }
>
> -void mte_enable_kernel(void)
> +static inline void __mte_enable_kernel(const char *mode, unsigned long tcf)
>  {
>         /* Enable MTE Sync Mode for EL1. */
> -       sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_MASK, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_SYNC);
> +       sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_MASK, tcf);
>         isb();
> +
> +       pr_info_once("MTE: enabled in %s mode at EL1\n", mode);
> +}
> +
> +void mte_enable_kernel_sync(void)
> +{
> +       __mte_enable_kernel("synchronous", SCTLR_ELx_TCF_SYNC);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mte_enable_kernel_sync);
> +
> +void mte_enable_kernel_async(void)
> +{
> +       __mte_enable_kernel("asynchronous", SCTLR_ELx_TCF_ASYNC);
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mte_enable_kernel);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mte_enable_kernel_async);
>
>  void mte_set_report_once(bool state)
>  {
> --
> 2.30.0
>