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Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , David Hildenbrand , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko Cc: Samuel Holland , Maciej Wieczor-Retman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org References: Content-Language: en-US From: Andrey Ryabinin In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 1/12/26 6:27 PM, Maciej Wieczor-Retman wrote: > From: Samuel Holland > > KASAN's tag-based mode defines multiple special tag values. They're > reserved for: > - Native kernel value. On arm64 it's 0xFF and it causes an early return > in the tag checking function. > - Invalid value. 0xFE marks an area as freed / unallocated. It's also > the value that is used to initialize regions of shadow memory. > - Min and max values. 0xFD is the highest value that can be randomly > generated for a new tag. 0 is the minimal value with the exception of > arm64's hardware mode where it is equal to 0xF0. > > Metadata macro is also defined: > - Tag width equal to 8. > > Tag-based mode on x86 is going to use 4 bit wide tags so all the above > values need to be changed accordingly. > > Make tag width and native kernel tag arch specific for x86 and arm64. > > Base the invalid tag value and the max value on the native kernel tag > since they follow the same pattern on both mentioned architectures. > > Also generalize KASAN_SHADOW_INIT and 0xff used in various > page_kasan_tag* helpers. > > Give KASAN_TAG_MIN the default value of zero, and move the special value > for hw_tags arm64 to its arch specific kasan-tags.h. > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland > Co-developed-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman > Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman > Acked-by: Will Deacon (for the arm part) > --- Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin