Re: [PATCH v9 28/44] arm64: mte: Reset the page tag in page->flags

From: Vincenzo Frascino
Date: Thu Nov 12 2020 - 04:37:00 EST


On 11/12/20 9:31 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:10:25PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c
>> index 70a71f38b6a9..f0efa4847e2f 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c
>> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ void copy_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from)
>>
>> if (system_supports_mte() && test_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &from->flags)) {
>> set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &to->flags);
>> + page_kasan_tag_reset(to);
>> mte_copy_page_tags(kto, kfrom);
>
> Any reason why this doesn't have an smp_wmb() between resetting the tags
> and copying them into kto?
>

Yes, the reason is I am not sure why it disappeared from the submitted patch ;)
I am going to respin the patch.

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Regards,
Vincenzo