[PATCH v2] riscv: kprobes: free insn slot in arch_remove_kprobe() to avoid memory leak
Xiaofeng Yuan
yuanxiaofeng at eswincomputing.com
Mon Oct 12 19:36:05 PDT 2026
When a kprobe is removed, arch_remove_kprobe() does not free the
instruction slot allocated by arch_prepare_kprobe(). This causes
a memory leak every time a kprobe is unregistered.
Other architectures such as arm64, x86, and powerpc all free the
slot in their arch_remove_kprobe() implementations. Add the
missing free_insn_slot() call for RISC-V.
Registered and unregistered a kprobe on kernel_clone in a loop
inside a QEMU (RISC-V virt) guest: before the fix the number of
kprobe_insn_page entries in /proc/kallsyms grew by one every 512
iterations (each insn-slot page holds 512 eight-byte slots), and
after the fix it stays at 1.
Signed-off-by: Xiaofeng Yuan <yuanxiaofeng at eswincomputing.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Drop the stray blank line before the closing brace.
- Extend the commit message with a reproduction/verification note.
- Rebase onto linux-next 20261009.
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
index 9e2afabf9..a76eab297 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ void __kprobes arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
void __kprobes arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
{
+ if (p->ainsn.api.insn) {
+ free_insn_slot(p->ainsn.api.insn, 0);
+ p->ainsn.api.insn = NULL;
+ }
}
static void __kprobes save_previous_kprobe(struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb)
--
2.34.1
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