[PATCH v8 5/5] arm64: kprobes: call set_memory_rox() for kprobe page

Yang Shi yang at os.amperecomputing.com
Wed Sep 17 12:02:11 PDT 2025


The kprobe page is allocated by execmem allocator with ROX permission.
It needs to call set_memory_rox() to set proper permission for the
direct map too. It was missed.

And the set_memory_rox() guarantees the direct map will be split if it
needs so that set_direct_map calls in vfree() won't fail.

Fixes: 10d5e97c1bf8 ("arm64: use PAGE_KERNEL_ROX directly in alloc_insn_page")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang at os.amperecomputing.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
index 0c5d408afd95..c4f8c4750f1e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "kprobes: " fmt
 
+#include <linux/execmem.h>
 #include <linux/extable.h>
 #include <linux/kasan.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -41,6 +42,17 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kprobe_ctlblk);
 static void __kprobes
 post_kprobe_handler(struct kprobe *, struct kprobe_ctlblk *, struct pt_regs *);
 
+void *alloc_insn_page(void)
+{
+	void *page;
+
+	page = execmem_alloc(EXECMEM_KPROBES, PAGE_SIZE);
+	if (!page)
+		return NULL;
+	set_memory_rox((unsigned long)page, 1);
+	return page;
+}
+
 static void __kprobes arch_prepare_ss_slot(struct kprobe *p)
 {
 	kprobe_opcode_t *addr = p->ainsn.xol_insn;
-- 
2.47.0




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