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-rw-r--r--libc/bionic/heap_tagging.cpp7
-rw-r--r--libc/bionic/libc_init_static.cpp6
-rw-r--r--libc/include/malloc.h43
3 files changed, 52 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libc/bionic/heap_tagging.cpp b/libc/bionic/heap_tagging.cpp
index ffbabb9a0..41aa20507 100644
--- a/libc/bionic/heap_tagging.cpp
+++ b/libc/bionic/heap_tagging.cpp
@@ -139,7 +139,12 @@ bool SetHeapTaggingLevel(HeapTaggingLevel tag_level) {
}
if (tag_level == M_HEAP_TAGGING_LEVEL_ASYNC) {
- set_tcf_on_all_threads(PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC);
+ // When entering ASYNC mode, specify that we want to allow upgrading to SYNC by OR'ing in
+ // the SYNC flag. But if the kernel doesn't support specifying multiple TCF modes, fall back
+ // to specifying a single mode.
+ if (!set_tcf_on_all_threads(PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC | PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC)) {
+ set_tcf_on_all_threads(PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC);
+ }
#if defined(USE_SCUDO)
scudo_malloc_set_track_allocation_stacks(0);
#endif
diff --git a/libc/bionic/libc_init_static.cpp b/libc/bionic/libc_init_static.cpp
index 069ebb0ab..3a8513f98 100644
--- a/libc/bionic/libc_init_static.cpp
+++ b/libc/bionic/libc_init_static.cpp
@@ -311,7 +311,11 @@ __attribute__((no_sanitize("hwaddress", "memtag"))) void __libc_init_mte(const v
unsigned long prctl_arg = PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE | PR_MTE_TAG_SET_NONZERO;
prctl_arg |= (level == M_HEAP_TAGGING_LEVEL_SYNC) ? PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC : PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC;
- if (prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, prctl_arg, 0, 0, 0) == 0) {
+ // When entering ASYNC mode, specify that we want to allow upgrading to SYNC by OR'ing in the
+ // SYNC flag. But if the kernel doesn't support specifying multiple TCF modes, fall back to
+ // specifying a single mode.
+ if (prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, prctl_arg | PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC, 0, 0, 0) == 0 ||
+ prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, prctl_arg, 0, 0, 0) == 0) {
__libc_shared_globals()->initial_heap_tagging_level = level;
return;
}
diff --git a/libc/include/malloc.h b/libc/include/malloc.h
index bae1f6823..f7beb2c10 100644
--- a/libc/include/malloc.h
+++ b/libc/include/malloc.h
@@ -170,7 +170,45 @@ int malloc_info(int __must_be_zero, FILE* __fp) __INTRODUCED_IN(23);
* Available since API level 28.
*/
#define M_PURGE (-101)
-/*
+
+
+/**
+ * mallopt() option to tune the allocator's choice of memory tags to
+ * make it more likely that a certain class of memory errors will be
+ * detected. This is only relevant if MTE is enabled in this process
+ * and ignored otherwise. The value argument should be one of the
+ * M_MEMTAG_TUNING_* flags.
+ * NOTE: This is only available in scudo.
+ *
+ * Available since API level 31.
+ */
+#define M_MEMTAG_TUNING (-102)
+
+/**
+ * When passed as a value of M_MEMTAG_TUNING mallopt() call, enables
+ * deterministic detection of linear buffer overflow and underflow
+ * bugs by assigning distinct tag values to adjacent allocations. This
+ * mode has a slightly reduced chance to detect use-after-free bugs
+ * because only half of the possible tag values are available for each
+ * memory location.
+ *
+ * Please keep in mind that MTE can not detect overflow within the
+ * same tag granule (16-byte aligned chunk), and can miss small
+ * overflows even in this mode. Such overflow can not be the cause of
+ * a memory corruption, because the memory within one granule is never
+ * used for multiple allocations.
+ */
+#define M_MEMTAG_TUNING_BUFFER_OVERFLOW 0
+
+/**
+ * When passed as a value of M_MEMTAG_TUNING mallopt() call, enables
+ * independently randomized tags for uniform ~93% probability of
+ * detecting both spatial (buffer overflow) and temporal (use after
+ * free) bugs.
+ */
+#define M_MEMTAG_TUNING_UAF 1
+
+/**
* mallopt() option for per-thread memory initialization tuning.
* The value argument should be one of:
* 1: Disable automatic heap initialization and, where possible, memory tagging,
@@ -210,7 +248,7 @@ int malloc_info(int __must_be_zero, FILE* __fp) __INTRODUCED_IN(23);
* should not be zero-initialized, any other value indicates to initialize heap
* memory to zero.
*
- * Note that this memory mitigations is only implemented in scudo and therefore
+ * Note that this memory mitigation is only implemented in scudo and therefore
* this will have no effect when using another allocator (such as jemalloc on
* Android Go devices).
*
@@ -222,6 +260,7 @@ int malloc_info(int __must_be_zero, FILE* __fp) __INTRODUCED_IN(23);
* mallopt() option to change the heap tagging state. May be called at any
* time, including when multiple threads are running.
* The value must be one of the M_HEAP_TAGGING_LEVEL_ constants.
+ * NOTE: This is only available in scudo.
*
* Available since API level 31.
*/