[PATCH v2] arm64/mte: Remove asymmetric mode from the prctl() interface

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Wed Mar 9 10:23:40 PST 2022


On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 13:12:00 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> As pointed out by Evgenii Stepanov one potential issue with the new ABI for
> enabling asymmetric is that if there are multiple places where MTE is
> configured in a process, some of which were compiled with the old prctl.h
> and some of which were compiled with the new prctl.h, there may be problems
> keeping track of which MTE modes are requested. For example some code may
> disable only sync and async modes leaving asymmetric mode enabled when it
> intended to fully disable MTE.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/mte), thanks!

[1/1] arm64/mte: Remove asymmetric mode from the prctl() interface
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/cf220ad6749b

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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