From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr1-f70.google.com (mail-wr1-f70.google.com [209.85.221.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E3CC6B0272 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2018 12:41:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wr1-f70.google.com with SMTP id e3-v6so11295441wrr.8 for ; Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:41:08 -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 k15-v6sor4458971wrm.34.2018.08.06.09.41.06 for (Google Transport Security); Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:41:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrey Konovalov Subject: [PATCH v5 09/10] arm64: update Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 18:40:44 +0200 Message-Id: <5396af31a51aaafd5d65742d1cc48854513be778.1533573460.git.andreyknvl@google.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Robin Murphy , Al Viro , Andrey Konovalov , Kees Cook , Kate Stewart , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Shuah Khan , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dmitry Vyukov , Kostya Serebryany , Evgeniy Stepanov , Lee Smith , Ramana Radhakrishnan , Jacob Bramley , Ruben Ayrapetyan , Chintan Pandya 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 -- 2.18.0.597.ga71716f1ad-goog