From: Xiaofeng Yuan <yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>, Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>,
Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Xiaofeng Yuan <yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/2] riscv: kprobes: reject probes inside LR/SC sequences
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:44:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261014094415.374-2-yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260828091202.1124-1-yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com>
A 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.
Reject probes of the LR/SC instructions themselves and of any address
between them.
arm64's kprobes rejects its equivalent exclusive load/store instructions
and, in arm_kprobe_decode_insn(), walks backward from the probe address
(bounded by the enclosing symbol) to reject any address inside an
exclusive sequence. RISC-V cannot walk backward because
variable-length instructions make instruction boundaries ambiguous, so
walk forward from the enclosing symbol, a known instruction boundary, up
to the probe address and track whether an LR is still outstanding.
A Zalrsc-constrained LR/SC retry loop holds at most 16 instructions, so
an LR more than MAX_LRSC_GAP instructions ahead of the probe cannot
start a sequence containing it. Count instructions, not bytes:
compressed instructions would make a byte window ambiguous.
The LR/SC instructions themselves are rejected in
riscv_probe_decode_insn(), and an address inside a sequence is rejected
in arch_check_kprobe().
Signed-off-by: Xiaofeng Yuan <yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com>
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h | 33 ++++++++++++++
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c | 2 +
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
3 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h
index ad348d8b8..46a1666d2 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@
#define RVG_OPCODE_JALR 0x67
#define RVG_OPCODE_JAL 0x6f
#define RVG_OPCODE_SYSTEM 0x73
+#define RVG_OPCODE_AMO 0x2f
#define RVG_SYSTEM_CSR_OFF 20
#define RVG_SYSTEM_CSR_MASK GENMASK(11, 0)
@@ -175,6 +176,8 @@
#define RVG_FUNCT3_BGE 0x5
#define RVG_FUNCT3_BLTU 0x6
#define RVG_FUNCT3_BGEU 0x7
+#define RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_W 0x2
+#define RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_D 0x3
/* parts of funct3 code for C extension*/
#define RVC_FUNCT3_C_BEQZ 0x6
@@ -263,6 +266,36 @@ __RISCV_INSN_FUNCS(ebreak, RVG_MASK_EBREAK, RVG_MATCH_EBREAK)
__RISCV_INSN_FUNCS(sret, RVG_MASK_SRET, RVG_MATCH_SRET)
__RISCV_INSN_FUNCS(fence, RVG_MASK_FENCE, RVG_MATCH_FENCE);
+/*
+ * LR/SC are identified by the AMO opcode plus the funct3 width field
+ * (.w/.d) and the funct5 field (funct7[6:2]) distinguishing LR from SC.
+ * The aq/rl bits (funct7[1:0]) are ignored. For LR the rs2 field must
+ * encode x0.
+ */
+#define RVG_AMO_FUNCT5_LR 0x02
+#define RVG_AMO_FUNCT5_SC 0x03
+
+static __always_inline bool riscv_insn_is_lr(u32 code)
+{
+ u32 funct5 = (code >> 27) & 0x1f;
+ u32 funct3 = (code >> 12) & 0x7;
+
+ return (code & RV_INSN_OPCODE_MASK) == RVG_OPCODE_AMO &&
+ funct5 == RVG_AMO_FUNCT5_LR &&
+ (funct3 == RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_W || funct3 == RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_D) &&
+ !(code & GENMASK(24, 20));
+}
+
+static __always_inline bool riscv_insn_is_sc(u32 code)
+{
+ u32 funct5 = (code >> 27) & 0x1f;
+ u32 funct3 = (code >> 12) & 0x7;
+
+ return (code & RV_INSN_OPCODE_MASK) == RVG_OPCODE_AMO &&
+ funct5 == RVG_AMO_FUNCT5_SC &&
+ (funct3 == RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_W || funct3 == RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_D);
+}
+
/* special case to catch _any_ system instruction */
static __always_inline bool riscv_insn_is_system(u32 code)
{
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
index 433d9035b..e6a889467 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ riscv_probe_decode_insn(probe_opcode_t *addr, struct arch_probe_insn *api)
*/
RISCV_INSN_REJECTED(system, insn);
RISCV_INSN_REJECTED(fence, insn);
+ RISCV_INSN_REJECTED(lr, insn);
+ RISCV_INSN_REJECTED(sc, insn);
/*
* Simulate instructions list:
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
index a76eab297..8f20f1535 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/stop_machine.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/unaligned.h>
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/bug.h>
+#include <asm/insn.h>
#include <asm/text-patching.h>
#include "decode-insn.h"
@@ -49,35 +51,72 @@ static void __kprobes arch_simulate_insn(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
post_kprobe_handler(p, kcb, regs);
}
-static bool __kprobes arch_check_kprobe(unsigned long addr)
+/*
+ * A trap taken in the middle of an LR/SC sequence clears the load
+ * reservation, so an SC following the probed instruction would always
+ * fail and the enclosing retry loop would re-enter the breakpoint.
+ * Reject probes inside such a sequence.
+ *
+ * RISC-V instruction boundaries cannot be recovered by walking
+ * backwards - a 32-bit instruction whose upper halfword looks like a
+ * compressed instruction is ambiguous - so walk forward from the
+ * enclosing symbol, a known instruction boundary, up to the probe address
+ * and track whether an LR is still outstanding. A Zalrsc-constrained
+ * LR/SC retry loop holds at most 16 instructions, so an LR more than
+ * that many instructions ahead of the probe cannot start a sequence
+ * containing it. Count instructions, not bytes: compressed
+ * instructions would make a byte window ambiguous.
+ */
+#define MAX_LRSC_GAP 16
+
+/*
+ * Verify that @addr points at the start of an instruction and is not
+ * inside an LR/SC sequence. Returns 0 on success, -EILSEQ if @addr is
+ * not an instruction boundary, or -EINVAL if the probe would land
+ * inside an LR/SC sequence.
+ */
+static int __kprobes arch_check_kprobe(unsigned long addr)
{
- unsigned long tmp, offset;
+ unsigned long pc, offset;
+ int outstanding_lr = -1;
- /* start iterating at the closest preceding symbol */
if (!kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(addr, NULL, &offset))
- return false;
+ return -EILSEQ;
- tmp = addr - offset;
+ /* pc starts at the closest preceding symbol, a known instruction boundary */
+ pc = addr - offset;
- while (tmp <= addr) {
- if (tmp == addr)
- return true;
+ while (pc < addr) {
+ u32 insn = get_unaligned((u32 *)pc);
+ unsigned int len = GET_INSN_LENGTH(insn);
- tmp += GET_INSN_LENGTH(*(u16 *)tmp);
+ if (riscv_insn_is_lr(insn))
+ outstanding_lr = 0;
+ else if (riscv_insn_is_sc(insn))
+ outstanding_lr = -1;
+ else if (outstanding_lr >= 0 && ++outstanding_lr > MAX_LRSC_GAP)
+ outstanding_lr = -1;
+
+ pc += len;
}
- return false;
+ if (pc != addr)
+ return -EILSEQ;
+
+ return outstanding_lr >= 0 ? -EINVAL : 0;
}
int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
{
u16 *insn = (u16 *)p->addr;
+ int ret;
if ((unsigned long)insn & 0x1)
return -EILSEQ;
- if (!arch_check_kprobe((unsigned long)p->addr))
- return -EILSEQ;
+ ret = arch_check_kprobe((unsigned long)p->addr);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
/* copy instruction */
p->opcode = (kprobe_opcode_t)(*insn++);
--
2.34.1
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From: Xiaofeng Yuan <yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>, Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>,
Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Xiaofeng Yuan <yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/2] riscv: kprobes: reject probes inside LR/SC sequences
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:44:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261014094415.374-2-yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260828091202.1124-1-yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com>
A 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.
Reject probes of the LR/SC instructions themselves and of any address
between them.
arm64's kprobes rejects its equivalent exclusive load/store instructions
and, in arm_kprobe_decode_insn(), walks backward from the probe address
(bounded by the enclosing symbol) to reject any address inside an
exclusive sequence. RISC-V cannot walk backward because
variable-length instructions make instruction boundaries ambiguous, so
walk forward from the enclosing symbol, a known instruction boundary, up
to the probe address and track whether an LR is still outstanding.
A Zalrsc-constrained LR/SC retry loop holds at most 16 instructions, so
an LR more than MAX_LRSC_GAP instructions ahead of the probe cannot
start a sequence containing it. Count instructions, not bytes:
compressed instructions would make a byte window ambiguous.
The LR/SC instructions themselves are rejected in
riscv_probe_decode_insn(), and an address inside a sequence is rejected
in arch_check_kprobe().
Signed-off-by: Xiaofeng Yuan <yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com>
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h | 33 ++++++++++++++
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c | 2 +
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
3 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h
index ad348d8b8..46a1666d2 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@
#define RVG_OPCODE_JALR 0x67
#define RVG_OPCODE_JAL 0x6f
#define RVG_OPCODE_SYSTEM 0x73
+#define RVG_OPCODE_AMO 0x2f
#define RVG_SYSTEM_CSR_OFF 20
#define RVG_SYSTEM_CSR_MASK GENMASK(11, 0)
@@ -175,6 +176,8 @@
#define RVG_FUNCT3_BGE 0x5
#define RVG_FUNCT3_BLTU 0x6
#define RVG_FUNCT3_BGEU 0x7
+#define RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_W 0x2
+#define RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_D 0x3
/* parts of funct3 code for C extension*/
#define RVC_FUNCT3_C_BEQZ 0x6
@@ -263,6 +266,36 @@ __RISCV_INSN_FUNCS(ebreak, RVG_MASK_EBREAK, RVG_MATCH_EBREAK)
__RISCV_INSN_FUNCS(sret, RVG_MASK_SRET, RVG_MATCH_SRET)
__RISCV_INSN_FUNCS(fence, RVG_MASK_FENCE, RVG_MATCH_FENCE);
+/*
+ * LR/SC are identified by the AMO opcode plus the funct3 width field
+ * (.w/.d) and the funct5 field (funct7[6:2]) distinguishing LR from SC.
+ * The aq/rl bits (funct7[1:0]) are ignored. For LR the rs2 field must
+ * encode x0.
+ */
+#define RVG_AMO_FUNCT5_LR 0x02
+#define RVG_AMO_FUNCT5_SC 0x03
+
+static __always_inline bool riscv_insn_is_lr(u32 code)
+{
+ u32 funct5 = (code >> 27) & 0x1f;
+ u32 funct3 = (code >> 12) & 0x7;
+
+ return (code & RV_INSN_OPCODE_MASK) == RVG_OPCODE_AMO &&
+ funct5 == RVG_AMO_FUNCT5_LR &&
+ (funct3 == RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_W || funct3 == RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_D) &&
+ !(code & GENMASK(24, 20));
+}
+
+static __always_inline bool riscv_insn_is_sc(u32 code)
+{
+ u32 funct5 = (code >> 27) & 0x1f;
+ u32 funct3 = (code >> 12) & 0x7;
+
+ return (code & RV_INSN_OPCODE_MASK) == RVG_OPCODE_AMO &&
+ funct5 == RVG_AMO_FUNCT5_SC &&
+ (funct3 == RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_W || funct3 == RVG_FUNCT3_AMO_D);
+}
+
/* special case to catch _any_ system instruction */
static __always_inline bool riscv_insn_is_system(u32 code)
{
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
index 433d9035b..e6a889467 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ riscv_probe_decode_insn(probe_opcode_t *addr, struct arch_probe_insn *api)
*/
RISCV_INSN_REJECTED(system, insn);
RISCV_INSN_REJECTED(fence, insn);
+ RISCV_INSN_REJECTED(lr, insn);
+ RISCV_INSN_REJECTED(sc, insn);
/*
* Simulate instructions list:
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
index a76eab297..8f20f1535 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/stop_machine.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/unaligned.h>
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/bug.h>
+#include <asm/insn.h>
#include <asm/text-patching.h>
#include "decode-insn.h"
@@ -49,35 +51,72 @@ static void __kprobes arch_simulate_insn(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
post_kprobe_handler(p, kcb, regs);
}
-static bool __kprobes arch_check_kprobe(unsigned long addr)
+/*
+ * A trap taken in the middle of an LR/SC sequence clears the load
+ * reservation, so an SC following the probed instruction would always
+ * fail and the enclosing retry loop would re-enter the breakpoint.
+ * Reject probes inside such a sequence.
+ *
+ * RISC-V instruction boundaries cannot be recovered by walking
+ * backwards - a 32-bit instruction whose upper halfword looks like a
+ * compressed instruction is ambiguous - so walk forward from the
+ * enclosing symbol, a known instruction boundary, up to the probe address
+ * and track whether an LR is still outstanding. A Zalrsc-constrained
+ * LR/SC retry loop holds at most 16 instructions, so an LR more than
+ * that many instructions ahead of the probe cannot start a sequence
+ * containing it. Count instructions, not bytes: compressed
+ * instructions would make a byte window ambiguous.
+ */
+#define MAX_LRSC_GAP 16
+
+/*
+ * Verify that @addr points at the start of an instruction and is not
+ * inside an LR/SC sequence. Returns 0 on success, -EILSEQ if @addr is
+ * not an instruction boundary, or -EINVAL if the probe would land
+ * inside an LR/SC sequence.
+ */
+static int __kprobes arch_check_kprobe(unsigned long addr)
{
- unsigned long tmp, offset;
+ unsigned long pc, offset;
+ int outstanding_lr = -1;
- /* start iterating at the closest preceding symbol */
if (!kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(addr, NULL, &offset))
- return false;
+ return -EILSEQ;
- tmp = addr - offset;
+ /* pc starts at the closest preceding symbol, a known instruction boundary */
+ pc = addr - offset;
- while (tmp <= addr) {
- if (tmp == addr)
- return true;
+ while (pc < addr) {
+ u32 insn = get_unaligned((u32 *)pc);
+ unsigned int len = GET_INSN_LENGTH(insn);
- tmp += GET_INSN_LENGTH(*(u16 *)tmp);
+ if (riscv_insn_is_lr(insn))
+ outstanding_lr = 0;
+ else if (riscv_insn_is_sc(insn))
+ outstanding_lr = -1;
+ else if (outstanding_lr >= 0 && ++outstanding_lr > MAX_LRSC_GAP)
+ outstanding_lr = -1;
+
+ pc += len;
}
- return false;
+ if (pc != addr)
+ return -EILSEQ;
+
+ return outstanding_lr >= 0 ? -EINVAL : 0;
}
int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
{
u16 *insn = (u16 *)p->addr;
+ int ret;
if ((unsigned long)insn & 0x1)
return -EILSEQ;
- if (!arch_check_kprobe((unsigned long)p->addr))
- return -EILSEQ;
+ ret = arch_check_kprobe((unsigned long)p->addr);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
/* copy instruction */
p->opcode = (kprobe_opcode_t)(*insn++);
--
2.34.1
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-28 9:12 [PATCH v4 0/2] riscv: kprobes: reject probes inside LR/SC sequences Xiaofeng Yuan
2026-08-28 9:12 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] riscv: probes: reject kprobes " Xiaofeng Yuan
2026-09-22 13:37 ` Nam Cao
2026-08-28 9:12 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] riscv: kprobes: add KUnit test for LR/SC sequence rejection Xiaofeng Yuan
2026-09-22 13:46 ` Nam Cao
2026-09-20 8:02 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] riscv: kprobes: reject probes inside LR/SC sequences Xiaofeng Yuan
2026-09-22 15:40 ` Nam Cao
2026-09-22 15:40 ` Nam Cao
2026-10-14 9:44 ` [PATCH v5 " Xiaofeng Yuan
2026-10-14 9:44 ` Xiaofeng Yuan
2026-10-14 9:44 ` Xiaofeng Yuan [this message]
2026-10-14 9:44 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] " Xiaofeng Yuan
2026-10-14 9:44 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] riscv: kprobes: add KUnit test for LR/SC sequence rejection Xiaofeng Yuan
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