[PATCH] arm64: mte: Allow PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS access to the zero page

[Catalin Marinas]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:03:16 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS) implementation checks whether the user
> page has valid tags (mapped with PROT_MTE) by testing the PG_mte_tagged
> page flag. If this bit is cleared, ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS) returns
> -EIO.
> 
> A newly created (PROT_MTE) mapping points to the zero page which had its
> tags zeroed during cpu_enable_mte(). If there were no prior writes to
> this mapping, ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS) fails with -EIO since the zero
> page does not have the PG_mte_tagged flag set.
> 
> [...]

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

[1/1] arm64: mte: Allow PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS access to the zero page
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/68d54ceeec0e

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Catalin