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When pointer masking is enabled for userspace, the kernel can accept tagged pointers as arguments to some system calls. Allow this by untagging the pointers in access_ok() and the uaccess routines. The uaccess routines must peform untagging in software because U-mode and S-mode have entirely separate pointer masking configurations. In fact, hardware may not even implement pointer masking for S-mode. Since the number of tag bits is variable, untagged_addr_remote() needs to know what PMLEN to use for the remote mm. Therefore, the pointer masking mode must be the same for all threads sharing an mm. Enforce this with a lock flag in the mm context, as x86 does for LAM. The flag gets reset in init_new_context() during fork(), as the new mm is no longer multithreaded. Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016202814.4061541-6-samuel.holland@sifive.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.