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Message-ID: <738dd4e2.ff73.19a7cd7b4d5.Coremail.xujiakai2025@iscas.ac.cn>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:51:42 +0800 (GMT+08:00)
From: 许佳凯 <xujiakai2025@...as.ac.cn>
To: linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "Paul Walmsley" <pjw@...nel.org>, "Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@...belt.com>, 
	"Albert Ou" <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>, 
	"Alexandre Ghiti" <alex@...ti.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] riscv: fix KUnit test_kprobes crash when building with
 Clang

Clang misaligns the test_kprobes_addresses and test_kprobes_functions
arrays, or does not export local labels by default. Both can cause
kmalloc_array() allocation errors and KUnit failures.

This patch fixes the issue by:
- Adding .section .rodata to explicitly place arrays in the read-only data segment.
- Adding .align 3 to align arrays to 8 bytes.
- Adding .globl to probe labels to ensure symbols are visible.

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

Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025@...as.ac.cn>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/tests/kprobes/test-kprobes-asm.S   | 29 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/tests/kprobes/test-kprobes-asm.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/tests/kprobes/test-kprobes-asm.S
index b951d0f12482..ac5ce305b1bd 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/tests/kprobes/test-kprobes-asm.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/tests/kprobes/test-kprobes-asm.S
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@
 SYM_FUNC_START(test_kprobes_add)
 	li a1, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_UPPER
 	li a2, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_LOWER
+.globl test_kprobes_add_addr1
 test_kprobes_add_addr1:
 	add a1, a1, a2
+.globl test_kprobes_add_addr2
 test_kprobes_add_addr2:
 	add a0, a1, x0
 	ret
@@ -19,6 +21,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(test_kprobes_jal)
 	mv a1, ra
 	.option push
 	.option norvc
+.globl test_kprobes_jal_addr1
 test_kprobes_jal_addr1:
 	jal x0, 2f
 	ret
@@ -27,6 +30,7 @@ test_kprobes_jal_addr1:
 	ret
 	.option push
 	.option norvc
+.globl test_kprobes_jal_addr2
 test_kprobes_jal_addr2:
 2:	jal 1b
 	.option pop
@@ -40,6 +44,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(test_kprobes_jalr)
 	mv a1, ra
 	.option push
 	.option norvc
+.globl test_kprobes_jalr_addr
 test_kprobes_jalr_addr:
 	jalr a0
 	.option pop
@@ -51,6 +56,7 @@ test_kprobes_jalr_addr:
 SYM_FUNC_END(test_kprobes_jalr)
 
 SYM_FUNC_START(test_kprobes_auipc)
+.globl test_kprobes_auipc_addr
 test_kprobes_auipc_addr:
 	auipc a0, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_LOWER
 	la a1, test_kprobes_auipc_addr
@@ -67,20 +73,26 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(test_kprobes_branch)
 	li a0, 0
 	li a1, 1
 	li a2, 2
+.globl test_kprobes_branch_addr1
 test_kprobes_branch_addr1:
 	beqz a0, 1f
 	ret
 1:
+.globl test_kprobes_branch_addr2
 test_kprobes_branch_addr2:
 	beqz a1, 3f
+.globl test_kprobes_branch_addr3
 test_kprobes_branch_addr3:
 	bnez a0, 3f
+.globl test_kprobes_branch_addr4
 test_kprobes_branch_addr4:
 	bnez a2, 1f
 	ret
 1:
+.globl test_kprobes_branch_addr5
 test_kprobes_branch_addr5:
 	bge a1, a2, 3f
+.globl test_kprobes_branch_addr6
 test_kprobes_branch_addr6:
 	bge a2, a1, 2f
 	ret
@@ -89,9 +101,11 @@ test_kprobes_branch_addr6:
 	add a0, a0, t0
 	ret
 2:
+.globl test_kprobes_branch_addr7
 test_kprobes_branch_addr7:
 	blt a2, a1, 3f
 	li a0, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_LOWER
+.globl test_kprobes_branch_addr8
 test_kprobes_branch_addr8:
 	blt a1, a2, 1b
 3:
@@ -104,6 +118,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(test_kprobes_branch)
 
 SYM_FUNC_START(test_kprobes_c_j)
 	li a0, 0
+.globl test_kprobes_branch_c_j_addr1
 test_kprobes_branch_c_j_addr1:
 	c.j 2f
 1:
@@ -111,12 +126,14 @@ test_kprobes_branch_c_j_addr1:
 	add a0, a0, a1
 	ret
 2:	li a0, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_LOWER
+.globl test_kprobes_branch_c_j_addr2
 test_kprobes_branch_c_j_addr2:
 	c.j 1b
 SYM_FUNC_END(test_kprobes_c_j)
 
 SYM_FUNC_START(test_kprobes_c_jr)
 	la a0, 2f
+.globl test_kprobes_c_jr_addr1
 test_kprobes_c_jr_addr1:
 	c.jr a0
 	ret
@@ -126,6 +143,7 @@ test_kprobes_c_jr_addr1:
 2:
 	li a0, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_UPPER
 	la a1, 1b
+.globl test_kprobes_c_jr_addr2
 test_kprobes_c_jr_addr2:
 	c.jr a1
 SYM_FUNC_END(test_kprobes_c_jr)
@@ -133,6 +151,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(test_kprobes_c_jr)
 SYM_FUNC_START(test_kprobes_c_jalr)
 	mv a1, ra
 	la a0, 1f
+.globl test_kprobes_c_jalr_addr
 test_kprobes_c_jalr_addr:
 	c.jalr a0
 	li a2, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_UPPER
@@ -145,16 +164,19 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(test_kprobes_c_jalr)
 SYM_FUNC_START(test_kprobes_c_beqz)
 	li a0, 0
 	li a1, 1
+.globl test_kprobes_c_beqz_addr1
 test_kprobes_c_beqz_addr1:
 	c.beqz a0, 2f
 	ret
 1:	li a1, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_UPPER
 	add a0, a0, a1
 	ret
+.globl test_kprobes_c_beqz_addr2
 test_kprobes_c_beqz_addr2:
 2:	c.beqz a1, 3f
 	li a0, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_LOWER
 	mv a1, x0
+.globl test_kprobes_c_beqz_addr3
 test_kprobes_c_beqz_addr3:
 	c.beqz a1, 1b
 3:	li a0, 0
@@ -164,15 +186,18 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(test_kprobes_c_beqz)
 SYM_FUNC_START(test_kprobes_c_bnez)
 	li a0, 0
 	li a1, 1
+.globl test_kprobes_c_bnez_addr1
 test_kprobes_c_bnez_addr1:
 	c.bnez a1, 2f
 	ret
 1:	li a1, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_UPPER
 	add a0, a0, a1
 	ret
+.globl test_kprobes_c_bnez_addr2
 test_kprobes_c_bnez_addr2:
 2:	c.bnez a0, 3f
 	li a0, KPROBE_TEST_MAGIC_LOWER
+.globl test_kprobes_c_bnez_addr3
 test_kprobes_c_bnez_addr3:
 	c.bnez a0, 1b
 3:	li a0, 0
@@ -181,6 +206,8 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(test_kprobes_c_bnez)
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C */
 
+.section .rodata
+.align 3
 SYM_DATA_START(test_kprobes_addresses)
 	RISCV_PTR test_kprobes_add_addr1
 	RISCV_PTR test_kprobes_add_addr2
@@ -212,6 +239,8 @@ SYM_DATA_START(test_kprobes_addresses)
 	RISCV_PTR 0
 SYM_DATA_END(test_kprobes_addresses)
 
+.section .rodata
+.align 3
 SYM_DATA_START(test_kprobes_functions)
 	RISCV_PTR test_kprobes_add
 	RISCV_PTR test_kprobes_jal
-- 
2.34.1

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