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| author | Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> | 2019-09-06 10:52:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2020-09-04 12:46:07 +0100 |
| commit | df9d7a22dd21c926e8175ccc6e176cb45fc7cb09 (patch) | |
| tree | 26602918ecfca502f5c549107a42c9812d9719fd /Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst | |
| parent | 89b94df9dfb16fe29f9d2085b0a98116dc34d814 (diff) | |
arm64: mte: Add Memory Tagging Extension documentation
Memory Tagging Extension (part of the ARMv8.5 Extensions) provides
a mechanism to detect the sources of memory related errors which
may be vulnerable to exploitation, including bounds violations,
use-after-free, use-after-return, use-out-of-scope and use before
initialization errors.
Add Memory Tagging Extension documentation for the arm64 linux
kernel support.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst index 84a9fd2d41b4..bbd9cf54db6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst @@ -240,6 +240,10 @@ HWCAP2_BTI Functionality implied by ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.BT == 0b0001. +HWCAP2_MTE + + Functionality implied by ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE == 0b0010, as described + by Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst. 4. Unused AT_HWCAP bits ----------------------- |