[PATCH v2 4/5] arm64: mte: Add asymmetric mode support

Vincenzo Frascino vincenzo.frascino at arm.com
Mon Oct 4 13:22:52 PDT 2021


MTE provides an asymmetric mode for detecting tag exceptions. In
particular, when such a mode is present, the CPU triggers a fault
on a tag mismatch during a load operation and asynchronously updates
a register when a tag mismatch is detected during a store operation.

Add support for MTE asymmetric mode.

Note: If the CPU does not support MTE asymmetric mode the kernel falls
back on synchronous mode which is the default for kasan=on.

Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h    |  1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h |  5 +++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c            | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
index f1745a843414..1b9a1e242612 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ static inline const void *__tag_set(const void *addr, u8 tag)
 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS
 #define arch_enable_tagging_sync()		mte_enable_kernel_sync()
 #define arch_enable_tagging_async()		mte_enable_kernel_async()
+#define arch_enable_tagging_asymm()		mte_enable_kernel_asymm()
 #define arch_force_async_tag_fault()		mte_check_tfsr_exit()
 #define arch_get_random_tag()			mte_get_random_tag()
 #define arch_get_mem_tag(addr)			mte_get_mem_tag(addr)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h
index 22420e1f8c03..478b9bcf69ad 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ static inline void mte_set_mem_tag_range(void *addr, size_t size, u8 tag,
 
 void mte_enable_kernel_sync(void);
 void mte_enable_kernel_async(void);
+void mte_enable_kernel_asymm(void);
 
 #else /* CONFIG_ARM64_MTE */
 
@@ -161,6 +162,10 @@ static inline void mte_enable_kernel_async(void)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void mte_enable_kernel_asymm(void)
+{
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARM64_MTE */
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
index e5e801bc5312..b6ad6b861c25 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
@@ -26,7 +26,12 @@
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(u64, mte_tcf_preferred);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS
-/* Whether the MTE asynchronous mode is enabled. */
+/*
+ * The MTE asynchronous and asymmetric mode have the same
+ * behavior for the store operations.
+ *
+ * Whether the MTE asynchronous or asymmetric mode is enabled.
+ */
 DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(mte_async_mode);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mte_async_mode);
 #endif
@@ -137,6 +142,32 @@ void mte_enable_kernel_async(void)
 	if (!system_uses_mte_async_mode())
 		static_branch_enable(&mte_async_mode);
 }
+
+void mte_enable_kernel_asymm(void)
+{
+	if (cpus_have_cap(ARM64_MTE_ASYMM)) {
+		__mte_enable_kernel("asymmetric", SCTLR_ELx_TCF_ASYMM);
+
+		/*
+		 * MTE asymm mode behaves as async mode for store
+		 * operations. The mode is set system wide by the
+		 * first PE that executes this function.
+		 *
+		 * Note: If in future KASAN acquires a runtime switching
+		 * mode in between sync and async, this strategy needs
+		 * to be reviewed.
+		 */
+		if (!system_uses_mte_async_mode())
+			static_branch_enable(&mte_async_mode);
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * If the CPU does not support MTE asymmetric mode the
+		 * kernel falls back on synchronous mode which is the
+		 * default for kasan=on.
+		 */
+		mte_enable_kernel_sync();
+	}
+}
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS
-- 
2.33.0




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