[PATCH v13 2/8] arm64: Handle MTE tags zeroing in __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage()

Steven Price steven.price at arm.com
Mon May 24 03:45:07 PDT 2021


From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

Currently, on an anonymous page fault, the kernel allocates a zeroed
page and maps it in user space. If the mapping is tagged (PROT_MTE),
set_pte_at() additionally clears the tags under a spinlock to avoid a
race on the page->flags. In order to optimise the lock, clear the page
tags on allocation in __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() if the vma flags
have VM_MTE set.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h |  6 ++++--
 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c         | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h
index 012cffc574e8..97853570d0f1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
 #include <linux/personality.h> /* for READ_IMPLIES_EXEC */
+#include <linux/types.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable-types.h>
 
 struct page;
@@ -28,8 +29,9 @@ void copy_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from,
 void copy_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from);
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_COPY_HIGHPAGE
 
-#define __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage(movableflags, vma, vaddr) \
-	alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_ZERO | movableflags, vma, vaddr)
+struct page *__alloc_zeroed_user_highpage(gfp_t movableflags,
+					  struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					  unsigned long vaddr);
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_ZEROED_USER_HIGHPAGE
 
 #define clear_user_page(page, vaddr, pg)	clear_page(page)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 871c82ab0a30..5a03428e97f3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -921,3 +921,24 @@ void do_debug_exception(unsigned long addr_if_watchpoint, unsigned int esr,
 	debug_exception_exit(regs);
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_debug_exception);
+
+/*
+ * Used during anonymous page fault handling.
+ */
+struct page *__alloc_zeroed_user_highpage(gfp_t movableflags,
+					  struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					  unsigned long vaddr)
+{
+	struct page *page;
+	bool tagged = system_supports_mte() && (vma->vm_flags & VM_MTE);
+
+	page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_ZERO | movableflags, vma,
+			      vaddr);
+	if (tagged && page) {
+		mte_clear_page_tags(page_address(page));
+		page_kasan_tag_reset(page);
+		set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags);
+	}
+
+	return page;
+}
-- 
2.20.1




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