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riscv: fix KUnit test_kprobes crash when building with Clang
authorJiakai Xu <jiakaipeanut@gmail.com>
Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:23:17 +0000 (03:23 +0000)
committerPaul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:10:52 +0000 (20:10 -0700)
commit641ecc890038f08af160bdff5183b6b42d2313b5
tree08f321d10c262f457f94eccd4a85e4ed7a1b8c20
parent25fd7ee7bf58ac3ec7be3c9f82ceff153451946c
riscv: fix KUnit test_kprobes crash when building with Clang

Clang misinterprets the placement of test_kprobes_addresses and
test_kprobes_functions arrays when they are not explicitly assigned
to a data section. This can lead to kmalloc_array() allocation
errors and KUnit failures.

When testing the Clang-compiled code in QEMU, this warning was emitted:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3000 at mm/page_alloc.c:5159 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0xe6/0x2fc mm/page_alloc.c:5159

Further investigation revealed that the test_kprobes_addresses array
appeared to have over 100,000 elements, including invalid addresses;
whereas, according to test-kprobes-asm.S, test_kprobes_addresses
should only have 25 elements.

When compiling the kernel with GCC, the kernel boots correctly.

This patch fixes the issue by adding .section .rodata to explicitly
place arrays in the read-only data segment.

For detailed debug and analysis, see:
https://github.com/j1akai/temp/blob/main/20251113/readme.md

v1 -> v2:
- Drop changes to .align, and .globl.

Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025@iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <jiakaiPeanut@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/738dd4e2.ff73.19a7cd7b4d5.Coremail.xujiakai2025@iscas.ac.cn
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/168308
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251226032317.1523764-1-jiakaiPeanut@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
arch/riscv/kernel/tests/kprobes/test-kprobes-asm.S