[PATCH v4 04/18] x86: Add arch specific kasan functions

From: Maciej Wieczor-Retman
Date: Tue Aug 12 2025 - 09:33:01 EST


KASAN's software tag-based mode needs multiple macros/functions to
handle tag and pointer interactions - to set, retrieve and reset tags
from the top bits of a pointer.

Mimic functions currently used by arm64 but change the tag's position to
bits [60:57] in the pointer.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changelog v4:
- Rewrite __tag_set() without pointless casts and make it more readable.

Changelog v3:
- Reorder functions so that __tag_*() etc are above the
arch_kasan_*() ones.
- Remove CONFIG_KASAN condition from __tag_set()

arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h
index d7e33c7f096b..1963eb2fcff3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
#define _ASM_X86_KASAN_H

#include <linux/const.h>
+#include <linux/kasan-tags.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
#define KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET _AC(CONFIG_KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET, UL)
#define KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT 3

@@ -24,8 +26,37 @@
KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT)))

#ifndef __ASSEMBLER__
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/bitfield.h>
+#include <linux/bits.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS
+
+#define __tag_shifted(tag) FIELD_PREP(GENMASK_ULL(60, 57), tag)
+#define __tag_reset(addr) (sign_extend64((u64)(addr), 56))
+#define __tag_get(addr) ((u8)FIELD_GET(GENMASK_ULL(60, 57), (u64)addr))
+#else
+#define __tag_shifted(tag) 0UL
+#define __tag_reset(addr) (addr)
+#define __tag_get(addr) 0
+#endif /* CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS */
+
+static inline void *__tag_set(const void *__addr, u8 tag)
+{
+ u64 addr = (u64)__addr;
+
+ addr &= ~__tag_shifted(KASAN_TAG_MASK);
+ addr |= __tag_shifted(tag);
+
+ return (void *)addr;
+}
+
+#define arch_kasan_set_tag(addr, tag) __tag_set(addr, tag)
+#define arch_kasan_reset_tag(addr) __tag_reset(addr)
+#define arch_kasan_get_tag(addr) __tag_get(addr)

#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
+
void __init kasan_early_init(void);
void __init kasan_init(void);
void __init kasan_populate_shadow_for_vaddr(void *va, size_t size, int nid);
@@ -34,8 +65,9 @@ static inline void kasan_early_init(void) { }
static inline void kasan_init(void) { }
static inline void kasan_populate_shadow_for_vaddr(void *va, size_t size,
int nid) { }
-#endif

-#endif
+#endif /* CONFIG_KASAN */
+
+#endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */

#endif
--
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