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Enable MTE on Pixel 8

Instructions for enabling Memory Tagging Extension for the kernel on Pixel 8 by Kees Cook.

The instructions describe how to enable kernel MTE in the reporting mode. Enabling MTE as a mitigation for kernel memory corruptions requires additionally passing kasan.fault=panic to the kernel command-line as pointed out by Andrey Konovalov.

MTE as a kernel mitigation is still an experimental feature and requires improvements as previously pointed out by Mark Brand.
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