From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] kasan: skip HW tagging for all kernel thread stacks
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:36:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adlDSiuBeSduK0mj@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adlCN9sUcQdWbf_i@arm.com>
On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 07:32:23PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> What the original approach might help with is use-after-realloc in case
> we had a tagged pointer in a past life of a page and it still works now.
> Oh well, that's I guess for other types of hardening to address like
> delayed reallocation.
Another thought (for a separate series) - we could try to map the stack
as Untagged (unless stack tagging is enabled; needs compiler
instrumentation) and enable canonical tag checking (newer addition to
MTE). This way, any stray tagged pointer won't work on the stack since
it needs a 0xf tag (canonical).
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-10 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-24 13:26 [PATCH v2 0/3] KASAN: HW_TAGS: Disable tagging for stack and page-tables Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-03-24 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] vmalloc: add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN support Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-04-10 18:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-04-16 9:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2026-04-22 13:21 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-04-22 14:23 ` Dev Jain
2026-04-22 14:38 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-04-22 15:59 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-23 6:13 ` Dev Jain
2026-03-24 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] kasan: skip HW tagging for all kernel thread stacks Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-04-10 18:32 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-04-10 18:36 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2026-04-16 9:03 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-17 8:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-04-22 13:31 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-04-22 18:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-03-24 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: skip KASAN tagging for page-allocated page tables Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-04-10 18:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-04-16 8:55 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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