From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: "Karl Mehltretter" <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
"Alexandre Ghiti" <alex@ghiti.fr>,
"Mike Rapoport" <rppt@kernel.org>,
"Luis Chamberlain" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
"Björn Töpel" <bjorn@kernel.org>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] riscv: mm: Pre-allocate module page tables for execmem
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:36:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261015033643.84972-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
RV64 pre-allocates page-table levels for late kernel mappings. The module
range is guarded by CONFIG_MODULES, although execmem can use it without
modules.
With CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y and CONFIG_MODULES=n, execmem adds a mapping to
init_mm while the current process retains an empty PGD entry. Initializing
a BPF program pack then faults:
Unable to handle kernel paging request ...
[ffffffff78000000] pgd=0000000000000000
...
bpf_jit_fill_hole_with_zero
bpf_prog_pack_alloc
Use CONFIG_EXECMEM for the module-range pre-allocation, as powerpc does
for its execmem page-table setup. Both CONFIG_MODULES and CONFIG_BPF_JIT
select it.
Fixes: 2c9e5d4a0082 ("bpf: remove CONFIG_BPF_JIT dependency on CONFIG_MODULES of")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
Notes:
Tested on a BeagleV Ahead with matched LLVM 18.1.3 builds based on
v7.3-rc7:
- unpatched: a native XDP attach triggered the Oops above
- patched: native XDP attach and detach completed without an Oops
arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index fb37b0b67efe..d92342c162e2 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ static void __init preallocate_pgd_pages_range(unsigned long start, unsigned lon
void __init pgtable_cache_init(void)
{
preallocate_pgd_pages_range(VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END, "vmalloc");
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MODULES))
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EXECMEM))
preallocate_pgd_pages_range(MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END, "bpf/modules");
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)) {
preallocate_pgd_pages_range(VMEMMAP_START, VMEMMAP_END, "vmemmap");
--
2.43.0
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