[PATCH 19/35] kasan: don't allow SW_TAGS with ARM64_MTE

[Vincenzo Frascino]

Hi Andrey,

On 8/27/20 9:04 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 07:27:01PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>> Software tag-based KASAN provides its own tag checking machinery that
>> can conflict with MTE. Don't allow enabling software tag-based KASAN
>> when MTE is enabled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
>> ---
>>  lib/Kconfig.kasan | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
>> index b4cf6c519d71..e500c18cbe79 100644
>> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
>> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
>> @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ config KASAN_GENERIC
>>  config KASAN_SW_TAGS
>>  	bool "Software tag-based mode"
>>  	depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
>> +	depends on !ARM64_MTE
> 
> I think that's better as:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 10cf81d70657..736c32bd8905 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ config ARM64
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if !(ARM64_16K_PAGES && ARM64_VA_BITS_48)
> -	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN
> +	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && !ARM64_MTE
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if COMPAT
> 

I agree with Catalin here, "select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN &&
!ARM64_MTE" should be sufficient.

-- 
Regards,
Vincenzo