[PATCH 0/5] arm64: ARMv8.7-A: MTE: Add asymm mode support

Peter Collingbourne pcc at google.com
Mon Sep 20 14:29:46 PDT 2021


On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:21 AM Vincenzo Frascino
<vincenzo.frascino at arm.com> wrote:
>
> This series implements the asymmetric mode support for ARMv8.7-A Memory
> Tagging Extension (MTE), which is a debugging feature that allows to
> detect with the help of the architecture the C and C++ programmatic
> memory errors like buffer overflow, use-after-free, use-after-return, etc.

Unless I'm missing something, it looks like this only includes KASAN
support and not userspace support. Is userspace support coming in a
separate patch?

The fact that this only includes KASAN support should probably be in
the commit messages as well.

Peter



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