From df9d7a22dd21c926e8175ccc6e176cb45fc7cb09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincenzo Frascino Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 10:52:39 +0100 Subject: 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 Co-developed-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Szabolcs Nagy Cc: Will Deacon --- Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst') 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 ----------------------- -- cgit