Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] kasan/hw-tags: introduce kasan.store_only option

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 07:03:35AM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> wrote:
> > Since Armv8.9, FEATURE_MTE_STORE_ONLY feature is introduced to restrict
> > raise of tag check fault on store operation only.
> > Introcude KASAN store only mode based on this feature.
> >
> > KASAN store only mode restricts KASAN checks operation for store only and
> > omits the checks for fetch/read operation when accessing memory.
> > So it might be used not only debugging enviroment but also normal
> > enviroment to check memory safty.
> >
> > This features can be controlled with "kasan.store_only" arguments.
> > When "kasan.store_only=on", KASAN checks store only mode otherwise
> > KASAN checks all operations.
> 
> I'm thinking if we should name this "kasan.write_only" instead of
> "kasan.store_only". This would align the terms with the
> "kasan.fault=panic_on_write" parameter we already have. But then it
> would be different from "FEATURE_MTE_STORE_ONLY", which is what Arm
> documentation uses (right?).

"write_only" works for me, kasan is meant to be generic even though it
currently closely follows the arm nomenclature.

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Catalin