Re: [PATCH v8 30/43] arm64: kasan: Allow enabling in-kernel MTE

Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-05T17:27:45Z

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:14 PM Vincenzo Frascino
<vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> wrote:
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> On 11/5/20 12:14 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 12:39 PM Vincenzo Frascino
> > <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> wrote:
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> >> On 11/5/20 11:35 AM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> >>> This will work. Any preference on the name of this function?
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> >> I called it in my current iteration mte_enable(), and calling it from
> >> cpu_enable_mte().
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> >>> Alternatively we can rename mte_init_tags() to something else and let
> >>> it handle both RRND and sync/async.
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> >> This is an option but then you need to change the name of kasan_init_tags and
> >> the init_tags indirection name as well. I would go for the simpler and just
> >> splitting the function as per above.
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> >> What do you think?
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> > OK, let's split. mte_enable() as a name sounds good to me. Both
> > functions will still be called one right after another from
> > kasan_init_hw_tags (as it's now called) though. I think the name
> > works, as it means initializing the hw_tags mode, not just the tags.
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> I agree. When you finish with v9, could you please provide a tree with both the
> sets on top similar to [1]? I would like to repeat the tests (ltp + kselftests)
> and even to rebase my async code on top of it since we are aligning with the
> development.
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> [1] https://github.com/xairy/linux/tree/up-boot-mte-v1

Sure, will share the trees, probably later today.