[PATCH fixes] riscv: uprobes: Add missing fence.i after building the XOL buffer

Björn Töpel bjorn at kernel.org
Thu Apr 17 00:49:49 PDT 2025


From: Björn Töpel <bjorn at rivosinc.com>

The XOL (execute out-of-line) buffer is used to single-step the
replaced instruction(s) for uprobes. The RISC-V port was missing a
proper fence.i (i$ flushing) after constructing the XOL buffer, which
can result in incorrect execution of stale/broken instructions.

This was found running the BPF selftests "test_progs:
uprobe_autoattach, attach_probe" on the Spacemit K1/X60, where the
uprobes tests randomly blew up.

Fixes: 74784081aac8 ("riscv: Add uprobes supported")
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn at rivosinc.com>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c
index 4b3dc8beaf77..4faef92dd771 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c
@@ -176,13 +176,6 @@ void arch_uprobe_copy_ixol(struct page *page, unsigned long vaddr,
 		*(uprobe_opcode_t *)dst = __BUG_INSN_32;
 	}
 
+	flush_icache_range((unsigned long)dst, (unsigned long)dst + len);
 	kunmap_atomic(kaddr);
-
-	/*
-	 * We probably need flush_icache_user_page() but it needs vma.
-	 * This should work on most of architectures by default. If
-	 * architecture needs to do something different it can define
-	 * its own version of the function.
-	 */
-	flush_dcache_page(page);
 }

base-commit: 1a1d569a75f3ab2923cb62daf356d102e4df2b86
-- 
2.45.2




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