From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr0-f197.google.com (mail-wr0-f197.google.com [209.85.128.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45AE26B0266 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:53:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wr0-f197.google.com with SMTP id p4-v6so2629164wrf.17 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:53:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-sor-f65.google.com (mail-sor-f65.google.com. [209.85.220.65]) by mx.google.com with SMTPS id l19sor655763wmd.50.2018.04.18.11.53.28 for (Google Transport Security); Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:53:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrey Konovalov Subject: [PATCH 6/6] arm64: update Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:53:15 +0200 Message-Id: <0fdb6332cc5bf333f80212d0b17edadd2bdc9fcf.1524077494.git.andreyknvl@google.com> In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Jonathan Corbet , Mark Rutland , Robin Murphy , Al Viro , Andrey Konovalov , James Morse , Kees Cook , Bart Van Assche , Kate Stewart , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Philippe Ombredanne , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Dan Williams , "Aneesh Kumar K . V" , Zi Yan , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Dmitry Vyukov , Kostya Serebryany , Evgeniy Stepanov , Lee Smith , Ramana Radhakrishnan , Jacob Bramley , Ruben Ayrapetyan Add a note that work on passing tagged user pointers to the kernel via syscalls has started, but might not be complete yet. Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov --- Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt index a25a99e82bb1..361481283f00 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt @@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ Using non-zero address tags in any of these locations may result in an error code being returned, a (fatal) signal being raised, or other modes of failure. -For these reasons, passing non-zero address tags to the kernel via -system calls is forbidden, and using a non-zero address tag for sp is +Some initial work for supporting non-zero address tags passed to the +kernel via system calls has been done, but the kernel doesn't provide +any guarantees at this point. Using a non-zero address tag for sp is strongly discouraged. Programs maintaining a frame pointer and frame records that use non-zero -- 2.17.0.484.g0c8726318c-goog