From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>,
"Claude Opus 4.6" <noreply@anthropic.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] perf sched: Fix comp_cpus heap overflow with cross-machine recordings
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 17:11:16 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260604201119.1702338-5-acme@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260604201119.1702338-1-acme@kernel.org>
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
setup_map_cpus() allocates comp_cpus based on
sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF), the host machine's CPU count. But
map_switch_event() indexes comp_cpus using cpus_nr derived from
bitmap_weight(comp_cpus_mask, MAX_CPUS), where comp_cpus_mask is
declared as DECLARE_BITMAP(..., MAX_CPUS) with MAX_CPUS=4096.
When analyzing a perf.data recording from a machine with more CPUs
than the analysis host (e.g. 128-CPU server recording analyzed on an
8-CPU laptop), cpus_nr exceeds the allocation size, causing a heap
buffer overflow.
Also fix a type mismatch: comp_cpus is 'struct perf_cpu *' (2 bytes
per element) but was allocated with sizeof(int) (4 bytes per element).
Allocate comp_cpus with MAX_CPUS entries using the correct element
size, matching the comp_cpus_mask bitmap bounds. Remove the
sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) initialization of max_cpu — it was only
used for the comp_cpus allocation, and max_cpu is dynamically updated
from the recording's events during processing.
Fixes: 99623c628f54 ("perf sched: Add compact display option")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/builtin-sched.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
index 36da451447b5e59f..80e42536400a91c2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
@@ -3573,10 +3573,8 @@ static int perf_sched__lat(struct perf_sched *sched)
static int setup_map_cpus(struct perf_sched *sched)
{
- sched->max_cpu.cpu = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF);
-
if (sched->map.comp) {
- sched->map.comp_cpus = calloc(sched->max_cpu.cpu, sizeof(int));
+ sched->map.comp_cpus = calloc(MAX_CPUS, sizeof(*sched->map.comp_cpus));
if (!sched->map.comp_cpus)
return -1;
}
--
2.54.0
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-04 20:11 [PATCHES v1 0/4] perf tools: Fix OOB reads, NULL deref, and resource leaks Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-06-04 20:11 ` [PATCH 1/4] perf tools: Guard test_bit from out-of-bounds sample CPU Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-06-04 20:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf sched: Fix thread reference leak in latency_switch_event Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-06-04 20:11 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf sched: Fix NULL dereference in latency_runtime_event Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-06-04 20:11 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
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2026-06-04 20:49 [PATCHES v2 0/4] perf tools: Fix OOB reads, NULL deref, and resource leaks Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-06-04 20:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf sched: Fix comp_cpus heap overflow with cross-machine recordings Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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