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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2019-11-27 10:30:15 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2020-09-04 12:46:07 +0100
commit1c101da8b971a36695319dce7a24711dc567a0dd (patch)
treec791523a3008b05b4c47267da585568bd3622b3f /arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
parent51b0bff2f703f7ecfeb228eaa3d8f6090c18c9c1 (diff)
arm64: mte: Allow user control of the tag check mode via prctl()
By default, even if PROT_MTE is set on a memory range, there is no tag check fault reporting (SIGSEGV). Introduce a set of option to the exiting prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL) to allow user control of the tag check fault mode: PR_MTE_TCF_NONE - no reporting (default) PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC - synchronous tag check fault reporting PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC - asynchronous tag check fault reporting These options translate into the corresponding SCTLR_EL1.TCF0 bitfield, context-switched by the kernel. Note that the kernel accesses to the user address space (e.g. read() system call) are not checked if the user thread tag checking mode is PR_MTE_TCF_NONE or PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC. If the tag checking mode is PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC, the kernel makes a best effort to check its user address accesses, however it cannot always guarantee it. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/process.c26
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index a49028efab68..bb759b88d44a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -577,6 +577,13 @@ __notrace_funcgraph struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
*/
dsb(ish);
+ /*
+ * MTE thread switching must happen after the DSB above to ensure that
+ * any asynchronous tag check faults have been logged in the TFSR*_EL1
+ * registers.
+ */
+ mte_thread_switch(next);
+
/* the actual thread switch */
last = cpu_switch_to(prev, next);
@@ -636,9 +643,15 @@ static unsigned int tagged_addr_disabled;
long set_tagged_addr_ctrl(unsigned long arg)
{
+ unsigned long valid_mask = PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE;
+
if (is_compat_task())
return -EINVAL;
- if (arg & ~PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE)
+
+ if (system_supports_mte())
+ valid_mask |= PR_MTE_TCF_MASK;
+
+ if (arg & ~valid_mask)
return -EINVAL;
/*
@@ -648,6 +661,9 @@ long set_tagged_addr_ctrl(unsigned long arg)
if (arg & PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE && tagged_addr_disabled)
return -EINVAL;
+ if (set_mte_ctrl(arg) != 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
update_thread_flag(TIF_TAGGED_ADDR, arg & PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE);
return 0;
@@ -655,13 +671,17 @@ long set_tagged_addr_ctrl(unsigned long arg)
long get_tagged_addr_ctrl(void)
{
+ long ret = 0;
+
if (is_compat_task())
return -EINVAL;
if (test_thread_flag(TIF_TAGGED_ADDR))
- return PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE;
+ ret = PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE;
- return 0;
+ ret |= get_mte_ctrl();
+
+ return ret;
}
/*