From: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
To: Xiaofeng Yuan <yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com>,
Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: probes: reject kprobes inside LR/SC sequences
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:33:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tsoql26k.fsf@yellow.woof> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260819102922.1747-1-yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com>
Xiaofeng Yuan <yuanxiaofeng@eswincomputing.com> writes:
> +/*
> + * 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.
> + *
> + * A constrained LR/SC loop (Zalrsc) is limited to 16 instructions placed
> + * sequentially in memory (64 bytes in the base ISA), so scanning back
> + * that far covers every possible enclosing sequence.
> + */
> +#define MAX_ATOMIC_CONTEXT_SIZE 64
What about C extension? Does this 64 still work?
> +
> +static bool __kprobes riscv_probe_insn_in_atomic(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> + unsigned long tmp, offset, scan_start;
> + bool in_atomic = false;
> +
> + if (!kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(addr, NULL, &offset))
> + return false;
> +
> + tmp = addr - offset; /* function entry */
> +
> + if (offset > MAX_ATOMIC_CONTEXT_SIZE)
> + scan_start = addr - MAX_ATOMIC_CONTEXT_SIZE;
What guarantees that 'scan_start' points to the beginning of an instruction?
> + else
> + scan_start = tmp;
> +
> + /* advance to the scan window, keeping instruction alignment */
> + while (tmp < scan_start)
> + tmp += GET_INSN_LENGTH(*(u16 *)tmp);
> +
> + /* scan the window, tracking whether an LR is still outstanding */
> + while (tmp < addr) {
> + if (GET_INSN_LENGTH(*(u16 *)tmp) == 4) {
Why is tmp casted to (u16 *)? An instruction can be 32 bits.
It still works, I think, but looks confusing.
> + u32 insn = *(u32 *)tmp;
Reuse this insn for the GET_INSN_LENGTH() above?
Nam
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2026-08-19 10:29 [PATCH] riscv: probes: reject kprobes inside LR/SC sequences Xiaofeng Yuan
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