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kasan: Add KASAN mode kernel parameter

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Architectures supported by KASAN_HW_TAGS can provide a sync or async mode
of execution. On an MTE enabled arm64 hw for example this can be identified
with the synchronous or asynchronous tagging mode of execution.
In synchronous mode, an exception is triggered if a tag check fault occurs.
In asynchronous mode, if a tag check fault occurs, the TFSR_EL1 register is
updated asynchronously. The kernel checks the corresponding bits
periodically.

KASAN requires a specific kernel command line parameter to make use of this
hw features.

Add KASAN HW execution mode kernel command line parameter.

Note: This patch adds the kasan.mode kernel parameter and the
sync/async kernel command line options to enable the described features.

[ Add a new var instead of exposing kasan_arg_mode to be consistent with
  flags for other command line arguments. ]

Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210315132019.33202-3-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Vincenzo Frascino
2021-03-15 13:20:12 +00:00
committed by Catalin Marinas
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@@ -161,6 +161,15 @@ particular KASAN features.
- ``kasan=off`` or ``=on`` controls whether KASAN is enabled (default: ``on``).
- ``kasan.mode=sync`` or ``=async`` controls whether KASAN is configured in
synchronous or asynchronous mode of execution (default: ``sync``).
Synchronous mode: a bad access is detected immediately when a tag
check fault occurs.
Asynchronous mode: a bad access detection is delayed. When a tag check
fault occurs, the information is stored in hardware (in the TFSR_EL1
register for arm64). The kernel periodically checks the hardware and
only reports tag faults during these checks.
- ``kasan.stacktrace=off`` or ``=on`` disables or enables alloc and free stack
traces collection (default: ``on``).