On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 17:33:54 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
Prior to commit 69e3b846d8a7 ("arm64: mte: Sync tags for pages where PTE is untagged"), mte_sync_tags() was only called for pte_tagged() entries (those mapped with PROT_MTE). Therefore mte_sync_tags() could safely use test_and_set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags) without inadvertently setting PG_mte_tagged on an untagged page.
The above commit was required as guests may enable MTE without any control at the stage 2 mapping, nor a PROT_MTE mapping in the VMM. However, the side-effect was that any page with a PTE that looked like swap (or migration) was getting PG_mte_tagged set automatically. A subsequent page copy (e.g. migration) copied the tags to the destination page even if the tags were owned by KASAN.
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Applied to arm64 (for-next/core), thanks!
[1/1] arm64: mte: Avoid setting PG_mte_tagged if no tags cleared or restored https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/a8e5e5146ad0