[PATCH v6 1/2] kasan/hw-tags: introduce kasan.write_only option

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Mon Sep 1 12:23:16 PDT 2025


On Mon,  1 Sep 2025 11:46:22 +0100 Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun at arm.com> wrote:

> Since Armv8.9, FEATURE_MTE_STORE_ONLY feature is introduced to restrict
> raise of tag check fault on store operation only.
> Introcude KASAN write only mode based on this feature.
> 
> KASAN write only mode restricts KASAN checks operation for write only and
> omits the checks for fetch/read operations when accessing memory.
> So it might be used not only debugging enviroment but also normal
> enviroment to check memory safty.
> 
> This features can be controlled with "kasan.write_only" arguments.
> When "kasan.write_only=on", KASAN checks write operation only otherwise
> KASAN checks all operations.
> 
> This changes the MTE_STORE_ONLY feature as BOOT_CPU_FEATURE like
> ARM64_MTE_ASYMM so that makes it initialise in kasan_init_hw_tags()
> with other function together.
> 
> ...
>
>  
> -	pr_info("KernelAddressSanitizer initialized (hw-tags, mode=%s, vmalloc=%s, stacktrace=%s)\n",
> +	pr_info("KernelAddressSanitizer initialized (hw-tags, mode=%s, vmalloc=%s, stacktrace=%s, write_only=%s\n",
>  		kasan_mode_info(),

This lost the closing ")" in the printk control string.  I fixed that
up while resolving rejects.




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