[PATCH v5 0/2] riscv: kprobes: reject probes inside LR/SC sequences
Xiaofeng Yuan
yuanxiaofeng at eswincomputing.com
Wed Oct 14 02:44:13 PDT 2026
A breakpoint trap taken in the middle of an LR/SC sequence clears the
load reservation, so an SC following the probed instruction always fails
and the enclosing retry loop re-enters the breakpoint, livelocking the
CPU. This series makes the RISC-V kprobes implementation reject probes
placed on an LR/SC instruction or between them, following arm64's
approach for its equivalent exclusive load/store instructions.
Changes since v4:
- Reject the LR and SC instructions themselves in the decode stage
(riscv_probe_decode_insn()), so a probe placed directly on them is
caught independently of the kallsyms offset (fixes the case where the
probe address is exactly the enclosing symbol's start).
- Bound the sequence scan by instruction count (MAX_LRSC_GAP = 16)
instead of bytes, matching the Zalrsc "at most 16 instructions"
constraint and avoiding ambiguity with compressed instructions.
- Fold the LR/SC scan into arch_check_kprobe() so the function is walked
only once; arch_check_kprobe() now returns an error code.
- Use the existing GET_INSN_LENGTH() macro and a single unaligned 32-bit
load instead of two separate loads.
- Extend the KUnit test to check a probe right before, on the LR, inside,
on the SC, and right after the sequence, storing absolute probe
addresses instead of offsets.
Verified by cross-compiling for RISC-V and running the kprobes KUnit
test in QEMU (ok 2 kprobes_riscv).
Xiaofeng Yuan (2):
riscv: kprobes: reject probes inside LR/SC sequences
riscv: kprobes: add KUnit test for LR/SC sequence rejection
arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h | 33 ++++++++++
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c | 2 +
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 63 +++++++++++++++----
.../kernel/tests/kprobes/test-kprobes-asm.S | 24 +++++++
.../riscv/kernel/tests/kprobes/test-kprobes.c | 26 ++++++++
.../riscv/kernel/tests/kprobes/test-kprobes.h | 3 +
6 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
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