[PATCH v2 24/34] kasan, vmalloc, arm64: mark vmalloc mappings as pgprot_tagged

Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 13:48:52 PST 2021


On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 10:46 PM <andrey.konovalov at linux.dev> wrote:
>
> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
>
> HW_TAGS KASAN relies on ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE). With MTE,
> a memory region must be mapped as MT_NORMAL_TAGGED to allow setting
> memory tags via MTE-specific instructions.
>
> This change adds proper protection bits to vmalloc() allocations.
> These allocations are always backed by page_alloc pages, so the tags
> will actually be getting set on the corresponding physical memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
> Co-developed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h | 10 ++++++++++
>  include/linux/vmalloc.h          |  7 +++++++
>  mm/vmalloc.c                     |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h
> index b9185503feae..3d35adf365bf 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h
> @@ -25,4 +25,14 @@ static inline bool arch_vmap_pmd_supported(pgprot_t prot)
>
>  #endif
>
> +#define arch_vmalloc_pgprot_modify arch_vmalloc_pgprot_modify
> +static inline pgprot_t arch_vmalloc_pgprot_modify(pgprot_t prot)
> +{
> +       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS) &&
> +                       (pgprot_val(prot) == pgprot_val(PAGE_KERNEL)))
> +               prot = pgprot_tagged(prot);
> +
> +       return prot;
> +}
> +
>  #endif /* _ASM_ARM64_VMALLOC_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> index b22369f540eb..965c4bf475f1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> @@ -108,6 +108,13 @@ static inline int arch_vmap_pte_supported_shift(unsigned long size)
>  }
>  #endif
>
> +#ifndef arch_vmalloc_pgprot_modify
> +static inline pgprot_t arch_vmalloc_pgprot_modify(pgprot_t prot)
> +{
> +       return prot;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  /*
>   *     Highlevel APIs for driver use
>   */
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index 7be18b292679..f37d0ed99bf9 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -3033,6 +3033,8 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
>                 return NULL;
>         }
>
> +       prot = arch_vmalloc_pgprot_modify(prot);
> +
>         if (vmap_allow_huge && !(vm_flags & VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP)) {
>                 unsigned long size_per_node;
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>

Hi Vincenzo,

This patch is based on an early version of the HW_TAGS series you had.
Could you PTAL and give your sign-off?

Thanks!



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