[PATCH v2 2/4] arm64: mte: Add asynchronous mode support

Vincenzo Frascino vincenzo.frascino at arm.com
Thu Jan 7 12:29:06 EST 2021


MTE provides an asynchronous mode for detecting tag exceptions. In
particular instead of triggering a fault the arm64 core updates a
register which is checked by the kernel at the first entry after the tag
exception has occurred.

Add support for MTE asynchronous mode.

The exception handling mechanism will be added with a future patch.

Note: KASAN HW activates async mode via kasan.mode kernel parameter.
The default mode is set to synchronous.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
index 24a273d47df1..5d992e16b420 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
@@ -153,8 +153,35 @@ void mte_init_tags(u64 max_tag)
 
 void mte_enable_kernel(enum kasan_arg_mode mode)
 {
-	/* Enable MTE Sync Mode for EL1. */
-	sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_MASK, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_SYNC);
+	const char *m;
+
+	/* Preset parameter values based on the mode. */
+	switch (mode) {
+	case KASAN_ARG_MODE_OFF:
+		return;
+	case KASAN_ARG_MODE_LIGHT:
+		/* Enable MTE Async Mode for EL1. */
+		sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_MASK, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_ASYNC);
+		m = "asynchronous";
+		break;
+	case KASAN_ARG_MODE_DEFAULT:
+	case KASAN_ARG_MODE_PROD:
+	case KASAN_ARG_MODE_FULL:
+		/* Enable MTE Sync Mode for EL1. */
+		sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_MASK, SCTLR_ELx_TCF_SYNC);
+		m = "synchronous";
+		break;
+	default:
+		/*
+		 * kasan mode should be always set hence we should
+		 * not reach this condition.
+		 */
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	pr_info_once("MTE: enabled in %s mode at EL1\n", m);
+
 	isb();
 }
 
-- 
2.30.0




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