[PATCH v2] riscv: kprobes: free insn slot in arch_remove_kprobe() to avoid memory leak

From: Xiaofeng Yuan

Date: Mon Oct 12 2026 - 22:38:04 EST


When a kprobe is removed, arch_remove_kprobe() does not free the
instruction slot allocated by arch_prepare_kprobe(). This causes
a memory leak every time a kprobe is unregistered.

Other architectures such as arm64, x86, and powerpc all free the
slot in their arch_remove_kprobe() implementations. Add the
missing free_insn_slot() call for RISC-V.

Registered and unregistered a kprobe on kernel_clone in a loop
inside a QEMU (RISC-V virt) guest: before the fix the number of
kprobe_insn_page entries in /proc/kallsyms grew by one every 512
iterations (each insn-slot page holds 512 eight-byte slots), and
after the fix it stays at 1.

Signed-off-by: Xiaofeng Yuan <yuanxiaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Drop the stray blank line before the closing brace.
- Extend the commit message with a reproduction/verification note.
- Rebase onto linux-next 20261009.

arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
index 9e2afabf9..a76eab297 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ void __kprobes arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)

void __kprobes arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
{
+ if (p->ainsn.api.insn) {
+ free_insn_slot(p->ainsn.api.insn, 0);
+ p->ainsn.api.insn = NULL;
+ }
}

static void __kprobes save_previous_kprobe(struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb)
--
2.34.1