[PATCH v6 5/5] arm64: futex: support futex with FEAT_LSUI

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 08:53:57PM +0100, Yeoreum Yun wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 03:57:49PM +0100, Yeoreum Yun wrote:
> > > why we need to care about the different settings for tag checking when
> > > we use uaccess_disable_privileged()?
[...]
> > > But, although tag check fault happens in kernel side,
> > > It seems to be handled by fixup code if user address is wrong.
> >
> > The user may know it is wrong and not care (e.g. one wants to keep using
> > a buggy application).
> 
> Then Does this example -- ignoring wrong and keep using a buggy
> application shows us that we need to enable TCO when
> we runs the LSUI instruction?
> 
> AFAIK, LSUI instruction also check memory tag -- i.e) ldtadd.
> if passed user address which has unmatched tag and if user isn't
> interested in tah check, It can meet the unexpected report from KASAN.

That's a valid point w.r.t. PSTATE.TCO that applies to copy_to/from_user
as well. I don't think we documented it but we don't expect the user
PSTATE.TCO state to be taken into account while doing uaccess from the
kernel. We do, however, expect SCTLR_EL1.TCF0 to be honoured and that's
what the user normally tweaks via a prctl(). The TCO is meant to
disable tag checking briefly when TCF enabled the tag check faults.

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Catalin