diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
index 16b243376f3621..b6e8e1e83efad7 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ static __always_inline void *patch_map(void *addr, const unsigned int fixmap)
 	uintptr_t uintaddr = (uintptr_t) addr;
 	phys_addr_t phys;
 
-	if (core_kernel_text(uintaddr) || is_kernel_exittext(uintaddr)) {
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX) &&
+	    (core_kernel_text(uintaddr) || is_kernel_exittext(uintaddr))) {
 		phys = __pa_symbol(addr);
 	} else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX)) {
 		struct page *page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 3e450890be07e4..9a506d2beae796 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -1459,7 +1459,9 @@ struct execmem_info __init *execmem_arch_setup(void)
 			[EXECMEM_KPROBES] = {
 				.start	= VMALLOC_START,
 				.end	= VMALLOC_END,
-				.pgprot	= PAGE_KERNEL_READ_EXEC,
+				.pgprot	= IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX) ?
+					  PAGE_KERNEL_READ_EXEC :
+					  PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC,
 				.alignment = 1,
 			},
 			[EXECMEM_BPF] = {