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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c index f983795b5eda..b9a2d13e85f6 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c @@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ void mte_check_tfsr_el1(void) } #endif +/* + * This is where we actually resolve the system and process MTE mode + * configuration into an actual value in SCTLR_EL1 that affects + * userspace. + */ static void mte_update_sctlr_user(struct task_struct *task) { /* @@ -199,8 +204,17 @@ static void mte_update_sctlr_user(struct task_struct *task) unsigned long pref, resolved_mte_tcf; pref = __this_cpu_read(mte_tcf_preferred); + /* + * If there is no overlap between the system preferred and + * program requested values go with what was requested. + */ resolved_mte_tcf = (mte_ctrl & pref) ? pref : mte_ctrl; sctlr &= ~SCTLR_EL1_TCF0_MASK; + /* + * Pick an actual setting. The order in which we check for + * set bits and map into register values determines our + * default order. + */ if (resolved_mte_tcf & MTE_CTRL_TCF_ASYNC) sctlr |= SCTLR_EL1_TCF0_ASYNC; else if (resolved_mte_tcf & MTE_CTRL_TCF_SYNC) |