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arm64: Introduce prctl() options to control the tagged user addresses ABI

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It is not desirable to relax the ABI to allow tagged user addresses into
the kernel indiscriminately. This patch introduces a prctl() interface
for enabling or disabling the tagged ABI with a global sysctl control
for preventing applications from enabling the relaxed ABI (meant for
testing user-space prctl() return error checking without reconfiguring
the kernel). The ABI properties are inherited by threads of the same
application and fork()'ed children but cleared on execve(). A Kconfig
option allows the overall disabling of the relaxed ABI.

The PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL will be expanded in the future to handle
MTE-specific settings like imprecise vs precise exceptions.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Catalin Marinas
2019-07-23 19:58:39 +02:00
committed by Will Deacon
parent 2b835e24b5
commit 63f0c60379
7 changed files with 111 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -229,4 +229,9 @@ struct prctl_mm_map {
# define PR_PAC_APDBKEY (1UL << 3)
# define PR_PAC_APGAKEY (1UL << 4)
/* Tagged user address controls for arm64 */
#define PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL 55
#define PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL 56
# define PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE (1UL << 0)
#endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */