[PATCH] arm64: kprobes: check the return value of set_memory_rox()
Punit Agrawal
punit.agrawal at oss.qualcomm.com
Tue Nov 4 02:41:03 PST 2025
Noticed a typo in the commit log while catching up with the rodata BBM
optimizations.
Yang Shi <yang at os.amperecomputing.com> writes:
> Since commit a166563e7ec3 ("arm64: mm: support large block mapping when
> rodata=full"), __change_memory_common has more chance to fail due to
> memory allocation fialure when splitting page table. So check the return
Typo: failure
> value of set_memory_rox(), then bail out if it fails otherwise we may have
> RW memory mapping for kprobes insn page.
>
> Fixes: 195a1b7d8388 ("arm64: kprobes: call set_memory_rox() for kprobe page")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang at os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
> I actually epxected 195a1b7d8388 ("arm64: kprobes: call set_memory_rox()
> for kprobe page") can be merged in 6.17-rcX, so I just restored it to
> before commit 10d5e97c1bf8 ("arm64: use PAGE_KERNEL_ROX directly in
> alloc_insn_page"), however it turned out to be merged in 6.18-rc1 and it
> is after commit a166563e7ec3 ("arm64: mm: support large block mapping when
> rodata=full"). So I made the fix tag point to it.
> And I don't think we need to backport this patch to pre-6.18.
>
> arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> index 8ab6104a4883..43a0361a8bf0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> @@ -49,7 +49,10 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void)
> addr = execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_KPROBES, PAGE_SIZE);
> if (!addr)
> return NULL;
> - set_memory_rox((unsigned long)addr, 1);
> + if (set_memory_rox((unsigned long)addr, 1)) {
> + execmem_free(addr);
> + return NULL;
> + }
> return addr;
> }
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