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This PR will complete LE-2004 and all subsidiary tasks.

Vulnerabilities and CVEs addressed include:

jira VULN-683
cve CVE-2023-6622

jira VULN-827
cve CVE-2024-26642

jira VULN-7047
cve CVE-2024-27397

jira VULN-5238
cve CVE-2024-36005

jira VULN-4905
cve CVE-2024-26925

jira VULN-4905
cve CVE-2024-27020

jira VULN-4961
cve CVE-2024-27019

jira VULN-4985
cve CVE-2024-27065

jira VULN-5126
cve CVE-2024-35899

jira VULN-5134
cve CVE-2024-35900

jira VULN-5118
cve CVE-2024-35897

Builds / install / boots
build.log
[root@lts86-base kernel-build-tmp]# uname -a
Linux lts86-base 4.18.0-debug-branch+ #2 SMP Tue Nov 12 13:01:58 EST 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Before and after kernel selftest logs:
kernel-selftest-before.log
kernel-selftest-after.log

The kernel selftest was run with lockdep and kmemleak enabled - kmemleak showed no kernel memory leaks and the log shows no new errors - although as usual the lockdep checker showed some lockups in the break testings. Nothing unusual or out of the norm:
kst-ldpon-log.log

The kernel selftest with lockdep and kmemleak on was run with stress: sudo stress --cpu 28 --io 28 --vm 28 --vm-bytes 1G --timeout 3h

There are some notable conflicts resolved in the commits for this PR - due diligence and attention required.

Netfilter tables tests were also run with lockdep and kmemleak:
nftables-test.log

…ent path

jira VULN-5238
cve CVE-2024-36005
commit-author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
commit 8e30abc

Check for table dormant flag otherwise netdev release event path tries
to unregister an already unregistered hook.

[524854.857999] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[524854.858010] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3386599 at net/netfilter/core.c:501 __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x21a/0x260
[...]
[524854.858848] CPU: 0 PID: 3386599 Comm: kworker/u32:2 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc3+ #365
[524854.858869] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
[524854.858886] RIP: 0010:__nf_unregister_net_hook+0x21a/0x260
[524854.858903] Code: 24 e8 aa 73 83 ff 48 63 43 1c 83 f8 01 0f 85 3d ff ff ff e8 98 d1 f0 ff 48 8b 3c 24 e8 8f 73 83 ff 48 63 43 1c e9 26 ff ff ff <0f> 0b 48 83 c4 18 48 c7 c7 00 68 e9 82 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41
[524854.858914] RSP: 0018:ffff8881e36d79e0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[524854.858926] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881339ae790 RCX: ffffffff81ba524a
[524854.858936] RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff8881c8a16438
[524854.858945] RBP: ffff8881c8a16438 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed103c6daf34
[524854.858954] R10: ffff8881e36d79a7 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000005
[524854.858962] R13: ffff8881c8a16000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8881351b5a00
[524854.858971] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888390800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[524854.858982] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[524854.858991] CR2: 00007fc9be0f16f4 CR3: 00000001437cc004 CR4: 00000000001706f0
[524854.859000] Call Trace:
[524854.859006]  <TASK>
[524854.859013]  ? __warn+0x9f/0x1a0
[524854.859027]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x21a/0x260
[524854.859044]  ? report_bug+0x1b1/0x1e0
[524854.859060]  ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
[524854.859071]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x40
[524854.859083]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
[524854.859100]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x6a/0x260
[524854.859116]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x21a/0x260
[524854.859135]  nf_tables_netdev_event+0x337/0x390 [nf_tables]
[524854.859304]  ? __pfx_nf_tables_netdev_event+0x10/0x10 [nf_tables]
[524854.859461]  ? packet_notifier+0xb3/0x360
[524854.859476]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x11/0x40
[524854.859489]  ? dcbnl_netdevice_event+0x35/0x140
[524854.859507]  ? __pfx_nf_tables_netdev_event+0x10/0x10 [nf_tables]
[524854.859661]  notifier_call_chain+0x7d/0x140
[524854.859677]  unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x5e1/0xae0

Fixes: d54725c ("netfilter: nf_tables: support for multiple devices per netdev hook")
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 8e30abc)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>
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The commit message here: d9a8f26

jira VULN-4905
cve CVE-2024-27020
commit-author Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@huawei.com>
commit https://github.com/ctrliq/kernel-src-tree/commit/f969eb84ce482331a991079ab7a5c4dc3b7f89bf

The ticket number is wrong for the CVECVE-2024-27020, it should be VULN-4969

jira VULN-4969
subsystem-sync netfilter:nf_tables 4.18.0-553.16.1
commit-author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
commit a45e688

Unlike early commit path stage which triggers a call to abort, an
explicit release of the batch is required on abort, otherwise mutex is
released and commit_list remains in place.

Add WARN_ON_ONCE to ensure commit_list is empty from the abort path
before releasing the mutex.

After this patch, commit_list is always assumed to be empty before
grabbing the mutex, therefore

  03c1f1e ("netfilter: Cleanup nft_net->module_list from nf_tables_exit_net()")

only needs to release the pending modules for registration.

	Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c0391b6 ("netfilter: nf_tables: missing validation from the abort path")
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit a45e688)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>
jira VULN-4905
cve CVE-2024-26925
commit-author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
commit 0d459e2

The commit mutex should not be released during the critical section
between nft_gc_seq_begin() and nft_gc_seq_end(), otherwise, async GC
worker could collect expired objects and get the released commit lock
within the same GC sequence.

nf_tables_module_autoload() temporarily releases the mutex to load
module dependencies, then it goes back to replay the transaction again.
Move it at the end of the abort phase after nft_gc_seq_end() is called.

	Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7203443 ("netfilter: nf_tables: GC transaction race with abort path")
	Reported-by: Kuan-Ting Chen <hexrabbit@devco.re>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 0d459e2)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>
jira VULN-4969
subsystem-sync netfilter:nf_tables 4.18.0-553.16.1
commit-author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
commit 9cff126

In case that there are two types, prefer the family specify extension.

	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 9cff126)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>
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The commit message here: d9a8f26

jira VULN-4905
cve CVE-2024-27020
commit-author Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@huawei.com>
commit https://github.com/ctrliq/kernel-src-tree/commit/f969eb84ce482331a991079ab7a5c4dc3b7f89bf

The ticket number is wrong for the CVECVE-2024-27020, it should be VULN-4969

This is what happens with command line editing when you forget to update all the necessary fields for the previous command. Fixed in the upcoming push.

jira VULN-4969
cve CVE-2024-27020
commit-author Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@huawei.com>
commit f969eb8

nft_unregister_expr() can concurrent with __nft_expr_type_get(),
and there is not any protection when iterate over nf_tables_expressions
list in __nft_expr_type_get(). Therefore, there is potential data-race
of nf_tables_expressions list entry.

Use list_for_each_entry_rcu() to iterate over nf_tables_expressions
list in __nft_expr_type_get(), and use rcu_read_lock() in the caller
nft_expr_type_get() to protect the entire type query process.

Fixes: ef1f7df ("netfilter: nf_tables: expression ops overloading")
	Signed-off-by: Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@huawei.com>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit f969eb8)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>
jira VULN-4961
cve CVE-2024-27019
commit-author Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@huawei.com>
commit d78d867
upstream-diff The cherry-pick tried to pull in extra cruft not
part of the upstream patch.  I have resolved the conflicts in
favor of the 4.18.0-553.16.1 tagged code.

nft_unregister_obj() can concurrent with __nft_obj_type_get(),
and there is not any protection when iterate over nf_tables_objects
list in __nft_obj_type_get(). Therefore, there is potential data-race
of nf_tables_objects list entry.

Use list_for_each_entry_rcu() to iterate over nf_tables_objects
list in __nft_obj_type_get(), and use rcu_read_lock() in the caller
nft_obj_type_get() to protect the entire type query process.

Fixes: e500924 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add stateful objects")
	Signed-off-by: Ziyang Xuan <william.xuanziyang@huawei.com>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit d78d867)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>

Conflicts:
	net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
jira VULN-4985
cve CVE-2024-27065
commit-author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
commit 4a0e7f2

Restore skipping transaction if table update does not modify flags.

Fixes: 179d9ba ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix table flag updates")
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 4a0e7f2)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>
jira VULN-5126
cve CVE-2024-35899
commit-author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
commit 24cea96

Similar to 2c9f029 ("netfilter: nf_tables: flush pending destroy
work before netlink notifier") to address a race between exit_net and
the destroy workqueue.

The trace below shows an element to be released via destroy workqueue
while exit_net path (triggered via module removal) has already released
the set that is used in such transaction.

[ 1360.547789] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x3f5/0x590 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.547861] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888140500cc0 by task kworker/4:1/152465
[ 1360.547870] CPU: 4 PID: 152465 Comm: kworker/4:1 Not tainted 6.8.0+ #359
[ 1360.547882] Workqueue: events nf_tables_trans_destroy_work [nf_tables]
[ 1360.547984] Call Trace:
[ 1360.547991]  <TASK>
[ 1360.547998]  dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
[ 1360.548014]  print_report+0xc4/0x610
[ 1360.548026]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0xba/0x160
[ 1360.548040]  ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
[ 1360.548054]  ? nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x3f5/0x590 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.548176]  kasan_report+0xae/0xe0
[ 1360.548189]  ? nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x3f5/0x590 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.548312]  nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x3f5/0x590 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.548447]  ? __pfx_nf_tables_trans_destroy_work+0x10/0x10 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.548577]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x18/0x30
[ 1360.548591]  process_one_work+0x2f1/0x670
[ 1360.548610]  worker_thread+0x4d3/0x760
[ 1360.548627]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 1360.548640]  kthread+0x16b/0x1b0
[ 1360.548653]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 1360.548665]  ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
[ 1360.548679]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 1360.548690]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 1360.548707]  </TASK>

[ 1360.548719] Allocated by task 192061:
[ 1360.548726]  kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
[ 1360.548739]  kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
[ 1360.548750]  __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
[ 1360.548760]  __kmalloc_node+0x1f1/0x450
[ 1360.548771]  nf_tables_newset+0x10c7/0x1b50 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.548883]  nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xbc4/0xdc0 [nfnetlink]
[ 1360.548909]  nfnetlink_rcv+0x1a8/0x1e0 [nfnetlink]
[ 1360.548927]  netlink_unicast+0x367/0x4f0
[ 1360.548935]  netlink_sendmsg+0x34b/0x610
[ 1360.548944]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x4d4/0x510
[ 1360.548953]  ___sys_sendmsg+0xc9/0x120
[ 1360.548961]  __sys_sendmsg+0xbe/0x140
[ 1360.548971]  do_syscall_64+0x55/0x120
[ 1360.548982]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x55/0x5d

[ 1360.548994] Freed by task 192222:
[ 1360.548999]  kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
[ 1360.549009]  kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
[ 1360.549019]  kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
[ 1360.549028]  poison_slab_object+0x100/0x180
[ 1360.549036]  __kasan_slab_free+0x14/0x30
[ 1360.549042]  kfree+0xb6/0x260
[ 1360.549049]  __nft_release_table+0x473/0x6a0 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.549131]  nf_tables_exit_net+0x170/0x240 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.549221]  ops_exit_list+0x50/0xa0
[ 1360.549229]  free_exit_list+0x101/0x140
[ 1360.549236]  unregister_pernet_operations+0x107/0x160
[ 1360.549245]  unregister_pernet_subsys+0x1c/0x30
[ 1360.549254]  nf_tables_module_exit+0x43/0x80 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.549345]  __do_sys_delete_module+0x253/0x370
[ 1360.549352]  do_syscall_64+0x55/0x120
[ 1360.549360]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x55/0x5d

(gdb) list *__nft_release_table+0x473
0x1e033 is in __nft_release_table (net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:11354).
11349           list_for_each_entry_safe(flowtable, nf, &table->flowtables, list) {
11350                   list_del(&flowtable->list);
11351                   nft_use_dec(&table->use);
11352                   nf_tables_flowtable_destroy(flowtable);
11353           }
11354           list_for_each_entry_safe(set, ns, &table->sets, list) {
11355                   list_del(&set->list);
11356                   nft_use_dec(&table->use);
11357                   if (set->flags & (NFT_SET_MAP | NFT_SET_OBJECT))
11358                           nft_map_deactivate(&ctx, set);
(gdb)

[ 1360.549372] Last potentially related work creation:
[ 1360.549376]  kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
[ 1360.549384]  __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x9b/0xb0
[ 1360.549392]  __queue_work+0x3fb/0x780
[ 1360.549399]  queue_work_on+0x4f/0x60
[ 1360.549407]  nft_rhash_remove+0x33b/0x340 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.549516]  nf_tables_commit+0x1c6a/0x2620 [nf_tables]
[ 1360.549625]  nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x728/0xdc0 [nfnetlink]
[ 1360.549647]  nfnetlink_rcv+0x1a8/0x1e0 [nfnetlink]
[ 1360.549671]  netlink_unicast+0x367/0x4f0
[ 1360.549680]  netlink_sendmsg+0x34b/0x610
[ 1360.549690]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x4d4/0x510
[ 1360.549697]  ___sys_sendmsg+0xc9/0x120
[ 1360.549706]  __sys_sendmsg+0xbe/0x140
[ 1360.549715]  do_syscall_64+0x55/0x120
[ 1360.549725]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x55/0x5d

Fixes: 0935d55 ("netfilter: nf_tables: asynchronous release")
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 24cea96)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>
jira VULN-5134
cve CVE-2024-35900
commit-author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
commit 994209d
upstream-diff Fixed up a couple of small conflicts introduced by
cherry picking from a very new source back into an ancient source.

When dormant flag is toggled, hooks are disabled in the commit phase by
iterating over current chains in table (existing and new).

The following configuration allows for an inconsistent state:

  add table x
  add chain x y { type filter hook input priority 0; }
  add table x { flags dormant; }
  add chain x w { type filter hook input priority 1; }

which triggers the following warning when trying to unregister chain w
which is already unregistered.

[  127.322252] WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1211 at net/netfilter/core.c:50                                                                     1 __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x21a/0x260
[...]
[  127.322519] Call Trace:
[  127.322521]  <TASK>
[  127.322524]  ? __warn+0x9f/0x1a0
[  127.322531]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x21a/0x260
[  127.322537]  ? report_bug+0x1b1/0x1e0
[  127.322545]  ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
[  127.322552]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x40
[  127.322556]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
[  127.322563]  ? kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
[  127.322570]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x6a/0x260
[  127.322577]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x21a/0x260
[  127.322583]  ? __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x6a/0x260
[  127.322590]  ? __nf_tables_unregister_hook+0x8a/0xe0 [nf_tables]
[  127.322655]  nft_table_disable+0x75/0xf0 [nf_tables]
[  127.322717]  nf_tables_commit+0x2571/0x2620 [nf_tables]

Fixes: 179d9ba ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix table flag updates")
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 994209d)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>

Conflicts:
	net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
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gvrose8192 commented Nov 14, 2024

I'm still working on the addition of the empty commit "netfilter: nf_tables: reject table flag and netdev basechain updates" - as per our earlier conversation on slack. Stay tuned, just wanted to save this work.

To clarify - this push has all code swaps and changes as brought up in comments and I wanted to get that checked and then be able to run tests on it. The rework of the last commit into an empty commit and then the final commit is separate work that will not change the final code base. So I get an early jump on code testing here.

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After further work and inspection, I have found that I made an error in bringing in upstream commits. These specifically:
1e1fb6f "netfilter: nf_tables: reject table flag and netdev basechain updates"

1bc83a0 "netfilter: nf_tables: discard table flag update with pending basechain deletion"

I reverse ordered them in the original push - I'm prone to that sort of thing. Glad we caught it, but took me a while to figure out my weird reverse ordered thinking. I hope it's fixed and more orderly now

jira VULN-5118
subsystem-sync netfilter:nf_tables 4.18.0-553.16.1
commit-author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
commit 1e1fb6f
upstream-diff The upstream diff brings in cruft we don't want, and will
be superseded by the next commit but is here to maintain history.

netdev basechain updates are stored in the transaction object hook list.
When setting on the table dormant flag, it iterates over the existing
hooks in the basechain. Thus, skipping the hooks that are being
added/deleted in this transaction, which leaves hook registration in
inconsistent state.

Reject table flag updates in combination with netdev basechain updates
in the same batch:

- Update table flags and add/delete basechain: Check from basechain update
  path if there are pending flag updates for this table.
- add/delete basechain and update table flags: Iterate over the transaction
  list to search for basechain updates from the table update path.

In both cases, the batch is rejected. Based on suggestion from Florian Westphal.

Fixes: b9703ed ("netfilter: nf_tables: support for adding new devices to an existing netdev chain")
Fixes: 7d937b1 ("netfilter: nf_tables: support for deleting devices in an existing netdev chain")
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 1e1fb6f)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>

Conflicts:
	net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
…n deletion

jira VULN-5118
cve CVE-2024-35897
commit-author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
commit 1bc83a0

Hook unregistration is deferred to the commit phase, same occurs with
hook updates triggered by the table dormant flag. When both commands are
combined, this results in deleting a basechain while leaving its hook
still registered in the core.

Fixes: 179d9ba ("netfilter: nf_tables: fix table flag updates")
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 1bc83a0)
	Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <g.v.rose@ciq.com>
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Thanks for the updates. Looks good :shipit:

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jira LE-2157
Rebuild_History Non-Buildable kernel-5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5
commit-author Jamie Bainbridge <jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com>
commit a699781

A sysfs reader can race with a device reset or removal, attempting to
read device state when the device is not actually present. eg:

     [exception RIP: qed_get_current_link+17]
  #8 [ffffb9e4f2907c48] qede_get_link_ksettings at ffffffffc07a994a [qede]
  #9 [ffffb9e4f2907cd8] __rh_call_get_link_ksettings at ffffffff992b01a3
 #10 [ffffb9e4f2907d38] __ethtool_get_link_ksettings at ffffffff992b04e4
 #11 [ffffb9e4f2907d90] duplex_show at ffffffff99260300
 #12 [ffffb9e4f2907e38] dev_attr_show at ffffffff9905a01c
 #13 [ffffb9e4f2907e50] sysfs_kf_seq_show at ffffffff98e0145b
 #14 [ffffb9e4f2907e68] seq_read at ffffffff98d902e3
 #15 [ffffb9e4f2907ec8] vfs_read at ffffffff98d657d1
 #16 [ffffb9e4f2907f00] ksys_read at ffffffff98d65c3f
 #17 [ffffb9e4f2907f38] do_syscall_64 at ffffffff98a052fb

 crash> struct net_device.state ffff9a9d21336000
    state = 5,

state 5 is __LINK_STATE_START (0b1) and __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER (0b100).
The device is not present, note lack of __LINK_STATE_PRESENT (0b10).

This is the same sort of panic as observed in commit 4224cfd
("net-sysfs: add check for netdevice being present to speed_show").

There are many other callers of __ethtool_get_link_ksettings() which
don't have a device presence check.

Move this check into ethtool to protect all callers.

Fixes: d519e17 ("net: export device speed and duplex via sysfs")
Fixes: 4224cfd ("net-sysfs: add check for netdevice being present to speed_show")
	Signed-off-by: Jamie Bainbridge <jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8bae218864beaa44ed01628140475b9bf641c5b0.1724393671.git.jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com
	Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit a699781)
	Signed-off-by: Jonathan Maple <jmaple@ciq.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2025
Before disabling SR-IOV via config space accesses to the parent PF,
sriov_disable() first removes the PCI devices representing the VFs.

Since commit 9d16947 ("PCI: Add global pci_lock_rescan_remove()")
such removal operations are serialized against concurrent remove and
rescan using the pci_rescan_remove_lock. No such locking was ever added
in sriov_disable() however. In particular when commit 18f9e9d
("PCI/IOV: Factor out sriov_add_vfs()") factored out the PCI device
removal into sriov_del_vfs() there was still no locking around the
pci_iov_remove_virtfn() calls.

On s390 the lack of serialization in sriov_disable() may cause double
remove and list corruption with the below (amended) trace being observed:

  PSW:  0704c00180000000 0000000c914e4b38 (klist_put+56)
  GPRS: 000003800313fb48 0000000000000000 0000000100000001 0000000000000001
	00000000f9b520a8 0000000000000000 0000000000002fbd 00000000f4cc9480
	0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000180692828
	00000000818e8000 000003800313fe2c 000003800313fb20 000003800313fad8
  #0 [3800313fb20] device_del at c9158ad5c
  #1 [3800313fb88] pci_remove_bus_device at c915105ba
  #2 [3800313fbd0] pci_iov_remove_virtfn at c9152f198
  #3 [3800313fc28] zpci_iov_remove_virtfn at c90fb67c0
  #4 [3800313fc60] zpci_bus_remove_device at c90fb6104
  #5 [3800313fca0] __zpci_event_availability at c90fb3dca
  #6 [3800313fd08] chsc_process_sei_nt0 at c918fe4a2
  #7 [3800313fd60] crw_collect_info at c91905822
  #8 [3800313fe10] kthread at c90feb390
  #9 [3800313fe68] __ret_from_fork at c90f6aa64
  #10 [3800313fe98] ret_from_fork at c9194f3f2.

This is because in addition to sriov_disable() removing the VFs, the
platform also generates hot-unplug events for the VFs. This being the
reverse operation to the hotplug events generated by sriov_enable() and
handled via pdev->no_vf_scan. And while the event processing takes
pci_rescan_remove_lock and checks whether the struct pci_dev still exists,
the lack of synchronization makes this checking racy.

Other races may also be possible of course though given that this lack of
locking persisted so long observable races seem very rare. Even on s390 the
list corruption was only observed with certain devices since the platform
events are only triggered by config accesses after the removal, so as long
as the removal finished synchronously they would not race. Either way the
locking is missing so fix this by adding it to the sriov_del_vfs() helper.

Just like PCI rescan-remove, locking is also missing in sriov_add_vfs()
including for the error case where pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device() is
called without the PCI rescan-remove lock being held. Even in the non-error
case, adding new PCI devices and buses should be serialized via the PCI
rescan-remove lock. Add the necessary locking.

Fixes: 18f9e9d ("PCI/IOV: Factor out sriov_add_vfs()")
Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julian Ruess <julianr@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250826-pci_fix_sriov_disable-v1-1-2d0bc938f2a3@linux.ibm.com
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2025
The test starts a workload and then opens events. If the events fail
to open, for example because of perf_event_paranoid, the gopipe of the
workload is leaked and the file descriptor leak check fails when the
test exits. To avoid this cancel the workload when opening the events
fails.

Before:
```
$ perf test -vv 7
  7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields:
 --- start ---
test child forked, pid 1189568
Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-B7-1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                    	   0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
  config                  	   0xa00000000 (cpu_atom/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/)
  disabled                	   1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 0  cpu -1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8
sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13
 ------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
  config                           0xa00000000 (cpu_atom/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/)
  disabled                         1
  exclude_kernel                   1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 0  cpu -1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 3
 ------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
  config                           0x400000000 (cpu_core/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/)
  disabled                         1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 0  cpu -1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8
sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13
 ------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
  config                           0x400000000 (cpu_core/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/)
  disabled                         1
  exclude_kernel                   1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 0  cpu -1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 3
Attempt to add: software/cpu-clock/
..after resolving event: software/config=0/
cpu-clock -> software/cpu-clock/
 ------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
  size                             136
  config                           0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY)
  sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|CPU
  read_format                      ID|LOST
  disabled                         1
  inherit                          1
  mmap                             1
  comm                             1
  enable_on_exec                   1
  task                             1
  sample_id_all                    1
  mmap2                            1
  comm_exec                        1
  ksymbol                          1
  bpf_event                        1
  { wakeup_events, wakeup_watermark } 1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 1189569  cpu 0  group_fd -1  flags 0x8
sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13
perf_evlist__open: Permission denied
 ---- end(-2) ----
Leak of file descriptor 6 that opened: 'pipe:[14200347]'
 ---- unexpected signal (6) ----
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    #0 0x565358f6666e in child_test_sig_handler builtin-test.c:311
    #1 0x7f29ce849df0 in __restore_rt libc_sigaction.c:0
    #2 0x7f29ce89e95c in __pthread_kill_implementation pthread_kill.c:44
    #3 0x7f29ce849cc2 in raise raise.c:27
    #4 0x7f29ce8324ac in abort abort.c:81
    #5 0x565358f662d4 in check_leaks builtin-test.c:226
    #6 0x565358f6682e in run_test_child builtin-test.c:344
    #7 0x565358ef7121 in start_command run-command.c:128
    #8 0x565358f67273 in start_test builtin-test.c:545
    #9 0x565358f6771d in __cmd_test builtin-test.c:647
    #10 0x565358f682bd in cmd_test builtin-test.c:849
    #11 0x565358ee5ded in run_builtin perf.c:349
    #12 0x565358ee6085 in handle_internal_command perf.c:401
    #13 0x565358ee61de in run_argv perf.c:448
    #14 0x565358ee6527 in main perf.c:555
    #15 0x7f29ce833ca8 in __libc_start_call_main libc_start_call_main.h:74
    #16 0x7f29ce833d65 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 libc-start.c:128
    #17 0x565358e391c1 in _start perf[851c1]
  7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields                       : FAILED!
```

After:
```
$ perf test 7
  7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields                       : Skip (permissions)
```

Fixes: 16d00fe ("perf tests: Move test__PERF_RECORD into separate object")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
bmastbergen added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 15, 2025
jira VULN-89209
cve CVE-2025-38472
commit-author Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
commit 2d72afb

A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack
entry from the hash bucket list:
    [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172]
    [..]
 #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack]
 #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack]
 #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack]
    [..]

The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in
a partially initialised state:

 ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value
 (hence crash).
 ct->status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected
 ct->timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected.

Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry.  If we ignore
ct->status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly
allocated but not yet inserted into the hash:
  - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash
  - ct->timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow
    rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value.

If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED,
__nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry.

Theory is that we did hit following race:

cpu x 			cpu y			cpu z
 found entry E		found entry E
 E is expired		<preemption>
 nf_ct_delete()
 return E to rcu slab
					init_conntrack
					E is re-inited,
					ct->status set to 0
					reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev
					stores hash value.

cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x.
E is now re-inited on cpu z.  cpu y was preempted before
checking for expiry and/or confirm bit.

					->refcnt set to 1
					E now owned by skb
					->timeout set to 30000

If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as
expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit.

					nf_conntrack_confirm gets called
					sets: ct->status |= CONFIRMED
					This is wrong: E is not yet added
					to hashtable.

cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED:
			<resumes>
			nf_ct_expired()
			 -> yes (ct->timeout is 30s)
			confirmed bit set.

cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable:
			nf_ct_delete() -> set DYING bit
			__nf_ct_delete_from_lists

Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash:
cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks:

			wait for spinlock held by z

					CONFIRMED is set but there is no
					guarantee ct will be added to hash:
					"chaintoolong" or "clash resolution"
					logic both skip the insert step.
					reply hnnode.pprev still stores the
					hash value.

					unlocks spinlock
					return NF_DROP
			<unblocks, then
			 crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev>

In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink
E again right away but no crash occurs.

Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence:
ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets
destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> nf_ct_destroy.

To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table
insertion but before the unlock.

Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen
before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and
before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this.

It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right
before the CONFIRMED bit was set:

Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation"
case: the entry will be skipped.

Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit.

The gc sequence is:
 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry
 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1.

nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an
expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes
ct->timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date
instead of a relative time.  Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry.

Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence:

 1. Check if entry has expired.
 2. Obtain a reference.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1:
    4 - entry is still observed as expired
    5 - meanwhile, ct->timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU
      and confirm bit gets set
    6 - confirm bit is seen
    7 - valid entry is removed again

First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either
confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for
re-inited conntrack objects.

This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without
commit 8a75a2c ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list")
|= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes.

	Cc: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/
Fixes: 1397af5 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list")
	Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2d72afb)
	Signed-off-by: Brett Mastbergen <bmastbergen@ciq.com>
bmastbergen added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 17, 2025
jira VULN-89209
cve CVE-2025-38472
commit-author Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
commit 2d72afb

A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack
entry from the hash bucket list:
    [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172]
    [..]
 #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack]
 #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack]
 #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack]
    [..]

The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in
a partially initialised state:

 ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value
 (hence crash).
 ct->status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected
 ct->timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected.

Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry.  If we ignore
ct->status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly
allocated but not yet inserted into the hash:
  - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash
  - ct->timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow
    rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value.

If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED,
__nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry.

Theory is that we did hit following race:

cpu x 			cpu y			cpu z
 found entry E		found entry E
 E is expired		<preemption>
 nf_ct_delete()
 return E to rcu slab
					init_conntrack
					E is re-inited,
					ct->status set to 0
					reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev
					stores hash value.

cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x.
E is now re-inited on cpu z.  cpu y was preempted before
checking for expiry and/or confirm bit.

					->refcnt set to 1
					E now owned by skb
					->timeout set to 30000

If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as
expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit.

					nf_conntrack_confirm gets called
					sets: ct->status |= CONFIRMED
					This is wrong: E is not yet added
					to hashtable.

cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED:
			<resumes>
			nf_ct_expired()
			 -> yes (ct->timeout is 30s)
			confirmed bit set.

cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable:
			nf_ct_delete() -> set DYING bit
			__nf_ct_delete_from_lists

Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash:
cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks:

			wait for spinlock held by z

					CONFIRMED is set but there is no
					guarantee ct will be added to hash:
					"chaintoolong" or "clash resolution"
					logic both skip the insert step.
					reply hnnode.pprev still stores the
					hash value.

					unlocks spinlock
					return NF_DROP
			<unblocks, then
			 crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev>

In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink
E again right away but no crash occurs.

Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence:
ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets
destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> nf_ct_destroy.

To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table
insertion but before the unlock.

Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen
before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and
before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this.

It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right
before the CONFIRMED bit was set:

Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation"
case: the entry will be skipped.

Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit.

The gc sequence is:
 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry
 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1.

nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an
expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes
ct->timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date
instead of a relative time.  Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry.

Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence:

 1. Check if entry has expired.
 2. Obtain a reference.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1:
    4 - entry is still observed as expired
    5 - meanwhile, ct->timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU
      and confirm bit gets set
    6 - confirm bit is seen
    7 - valid entry is removed again

First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either
confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for
re-inited conntrack objects.

This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without
commit 8a75a2c ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list")
|= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes.

	Cc: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/
Fixes: 1397af5 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list")
	Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2d72afb)
	Signed-off-by: Brett Mastbergen <bmastbergen@ciq.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 20, 2025
[ Upstream commit 48918ca ]

The test starts a workload and then opens events. If the events fail
to open, for example because of perf_event_paranoid, the gopipe of the
workload is leaked and the file descriptor leak check fails when the
test exits. To avoid this cancel the workload when opening the events
fails.

Before:
```
$ perf test -vv 7
  7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields:
 --- start ---
test child forked, pid 1189568
Using CPUID GenuineIntel-6-B7-1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                    	   0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
  config                  	   0xa00000000 (cpu_atom/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/)
  disabled                	   1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 0  cpu -1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8
sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13
 ------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
  config                           0xa00000000 (cpu_atom/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/)
  disabled                         1
  exclude_kernel                   1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 0  cpu -1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 3
 ------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
  config                           0x400000000 (cpu_core/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/)
  disabled                         1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 0  cpu -1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8
sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13
 ------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             0 (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
  config                           0x400000000 (cpu_core/PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES/)
  disabled                         1
  exclude_kernel                   1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 0  cpu -1  group_fd -1  flags 0x8 = 3
Attempt to add: software/cpu-clock/
..after resolving event: software/config=0/
cpu-clock -> software/cpu-clock/
 ------------------------------------------------------------
perf_event_attr:
  type                             1 (PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
  size                             136
  config                           0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY)
  sample_type                      IP|TID|TIME|CPU
  read_format                      ID|LOST
  disabled                         1
  inherit                          1
  mmap                             1
  comm                             1
  enable_on_exec                   1
  task                             1
  sample_id_all                    1
  mmap2                            1
  comm_exec                        1
  ksymbol                          1
  bpf_event                        1
  { wakeup_events, wakeup_watermark } 1
 ------------------------------------------------------------
sys_perf_event_open: pid 1189569  cpu 0  group_fd -1  flags 0x8
sys_perf_event_open failed, error -13
perf_evlist__open: Permission denied
 ---- end(-2) ----
Leak of file descriptor 6 that opened: 'pipe:[14200347]'
 ---- unexpected signal (6) ----
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    #0 0x565358f6666e in child_test_sig_handler builtin-test.c:311
    #1 0x7f29ce849df0 in __restore_rt libc_sigaction.c:0
    #2 0x7f29ce89e95c in __pthread_kill_implementation pthread_kill.c:44
    #3 0x7f29ce849cc2 in raise raise.c:27
    #4 0x7f29ce8324ac in abort abort.c:81
    #5 0x565358f662d4 in check_leaks builtin-test.c:226
    #6 0x565358f6682e in run_test_child builtin-test.c:344
    #7 0x565358ef7121 in start_command run-command.c:128
    #8 0x565358f67273 in start_test builtin-test.c:545
    #9 0x565358f6771d in __cmd_test builtin-test.c:647
    #10 0x565358f682bd in cmd_test builtin-test.c:849
    #11 0x565358ee5ded in run_builtin perf.c:349
    #12 0x565358ee6085 in handle_internal_command perf.c:401
    #13 0x565358ee61de in run_argv perf.c:448
    #14 0x565358ee6527 in main perf.c:555
    #15 0x7f29ce833ca8 in __libc_start_call_main libc_start_call_main.h:74
    #16 0x7f29ce833d65 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 libc-start.c:128
    #17 0x565358e391c1 in _start perf[851c1]
  7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields                       : FAILED!
```

After:
```
$ perf test 7
  7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields                       : Skip (permissions)
```

Fixes: 16d00fe ("perf tests: Move test__PERF_RECORD into separate object")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 20, 2025
commit 0570327 upstream.

Before disabling SR-IOV via config space accesses to the parent PF,
sriov_disable() first removes the PCI devices representing the VFs.

Since commit 9d16947 ("PCI: Add global pci_lock_rescan_remove()")
such removal operations are serialized against concurrent remove and
rescan using the pci_rescan_remove_lock. No such locking was ever added
in sriov_disable() however. In particular when commit 18f9e9d
("PCI/IOV: Factor out sriov_add_vfs()") factored out the PCI device
removal into sriov_del_vfs() there was still no locking around the
pci_iov_remove_virtfn() calls.

On s390 the lack of serialization in sriov_disable() may cause double
remove and list corruption with the below (amended) trace being observed:

  PSW:  0704c00180000000 0000000c914e4b38 (klist_put+56)
  GPRS: 000003800313fb48 0000000000000000 0000000100000001 0000000000000001
	00000000f9b520a8 0000000000000000 0000000000002fbd 00000000f4cc9480
	0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000180692828
	00000000818e8000 000003800313fe2c 000003800313fb20 000003800313fad8
  #0 [3800313fb20] device_del at c9158ad5c
  #1 [3800313fb88] pci_remove_bus_device at c915105ba
  #2 [3800313fbd0] pci_iov_remove_virtfn at c9152f198
  #3 [3800313fc28] zpci_iov_remove_virtfn at c90fb67c0
  #4 [3800313fc60] zpci_bus_remove_device at c90fb6104
  #5 [3800313fca0] __zpci_event_availability at c90fb3dca
  #6 [3800313fd08] chsc_process_sei_nt0 at c918fe4a2
  #7 [3800313fd60] crw_collect_info at c91905822
  #8 [3800313fe10] kthread at c90feb390
  #9 [3800313fe68] __ret_from_fork at c90f6aa64
  #10 [3800313fe98] ret_from_fork at c9194f3f2.

This is because in addition to sriov_disable() removing the VFs, the
platform also generates hot-unplug events for the VFs. This being the
reverse operation to the hotplug events generated by sriov_enable() and
handled via pdev->no_vf_scan. And while the event processing takes
pci_rescan_remove_lock and checks whether the struct pci_dev still exists,
the lack of synchronization makes this checking racy.

Other races may also be possible of course though given that this lack of
locking persisted so long observable races seem very rare. Even on s390 the
list corruption was only observed with certain devices since the platform
events are only triggered by config accesses after the removal, so as long
as the removal finished synchronously they would not race. Either way the
locking is missing so fix this by adding it to the sriov_del_vfs() helper.

Just like PCI rescan-remove, locking is also missing in sriov_add_vfs()
including for the error case where pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device() is
called without the PCI rescan-remove lock being held. Even in the non-error
case, adding new PCI devices and buses should be serialized via the PCI
rescan-remove lock. Add the necessary locking.

Fixes: 18f9e9d ("PCI/IOV: Factor out sriov_add_vfs()")
Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julian Ruess <julianr@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250826-pci_fix_sriov_disable-v1-1-2d0bc938f2a3@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
PlaidCat added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 21, 2025
…ace is dead

jira VULN-70417
cve CVE-2022-49977
commit-author Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
commit c3b0f72

ftrace_startup does not remove ops from ftrace_ops_list when
ftrace_startup_enable fails:

register_ftrace_function
  ftrace_startup
    __register_ftrace_function
      ...
      add_ftrace_ops(&ftrace_ops_list, ops)
      ...
    ...
    ftrace_startup_enable // if ftrace failed to modify, ftrace_disabled is set to 1
    ...
  return 0 // ops is in the ftrace_ops_list.

When ftrace_disabled = 1, unregister_ftrace_function simply returns without doing anything:
unregister_ftrace_function
  ftrace_shutdown
    if (unlikely(ftrace_disabled))
            return -ENODEV;  // return here, __unregister_ftrace_function is not executed,
                             // as a result, ops is still in the ftrace_ops_list
    __unregister_ftrace_function
    ...

If ops is dynamically allocated, it will be free later, in this case,
is_ftrace_trampoline accesses NULL pointer:

is_ftrace_trampoline
  ftrace_ops_trampoline
    do_for_each_ftrace_op(op, ftrace_ops_list) // OOPS! op may be NULL!

Syzkaller reports as follows:
[ 1203.506103] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000010b
[ 1203.508039] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 1203.508798] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 1203.509558] PGD 800000011660b067 P4D 800000011660b067 PUD 130fb8067 PMD 0
[ 1203.510560] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
[ 1203.511189] CPU: 6 PID: 29532 Comm: syz-executor.2 Tainted: G    B   W         5.10.0 #8
[ 1203.512324] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 1203.513895] RIP: 0010:is_ftrace_trampoline+0x26/0xb0
[ 1203.514644] Code: ff eb d3 90 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 55 53 e8 f2 00 fd ff 48 8b 1d 3b 35 5d 03 e8 e6 00 fd ff 48 8d bb 90 00 00 00 e8 2a 81 26 00 <48> 8b ab 90 00 00 00 48 85 ed 74 1d e8 c9 00 fd ff 48 8d bb 98 00
[ 1203.518838] RSP: 0018:ffffc900012cf960 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 1203.520092] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000007b RCX: ffffffff8a331866
[ 1203.521469] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: 000000000000010b
[ 1203.522583] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8df18b07
[ 1203.523550] R10: fffffbfff1be3160 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000478399
[ 1203.524596] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888145088000 R15: 0000000000000008
[ 1203.525634] FS:  00007f429f5f4700(0000) GS:ffff8881daf00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1203.526801] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 1203.527626] CR2: 000000000000010b CR3: 0000000170e1e001 CR4: 00000000003706e0
[ 1203.528611] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 1203.529605] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Therefore, when ftrace_startup_enable fails, we need to rollback registration
process and remove ops from ftrace_ops_list.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818032659.56209-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com

	Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
	Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
	Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
(cherry picked from commit c3b0f72)
	Signed-off-by: Jonathan Maple <jmaple@ciq.com>
roxanan1996 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 22, 2025
jira VULN-89210
cve CVE-2025-38472
commit-author Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
commit 2d72afb

A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack
entry from the hash bucket list:
    [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172]
    [..]
 #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack]
 #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack]
 #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack]
    [..]

The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in
a partially initialised state:

 ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value
 (hence crash).
 ct->status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected
 ct->timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected.

Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry.  If we ignore
ct->status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly
allocated but not yet inserted into the hash:
  - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash
  - ct->timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow
    rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value.

If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED,
__nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry.

Theory is that we did hit following race:

cpu x 			cpu y			cpu z
 found entry E		found entry E
 E is expired		<preemption>
 nf_ct_delete()
 return E to rcu slab
					init_conntrack
					E is re-inited,
					ct->status set to 0
					reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev
					stores hash value.

cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x.
E is now re-inited on cpu z.  cpu y was preempted before
checking for expiry and/or confirm bit.

					->refcnt set to 1
					E now owned by skb
					->timeout set to 30000

If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as
expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit.

					nf_conntrack_confirm gets called
					sets: ct->status |= CONFIRMED
					This is wrong: E is not yet added
					to hashtable.

cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED:
			<resumes>
			nf_ct_expired()
			 -> yes (ct->timeout is 30s)
			confirmed bit set.

cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable:
			nf_ct_delete() -> set DYING bit
			__nf_ct_delete_from_lists

Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash:
cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks:

			wait for spinlock held by z

					CONFIRMED is set but there is no
					guarantee ct will be added to hash:
					"chaintoolong" or "clash resolution"
					logic both skip the insert step.
					reply hnnode.pprev still stores the
					hash value.

					unlocks spinlock
					return NF_DROP
			<unblocks, then
			 crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev>

In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink
E again right away but no crash occurs.

Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence:
ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets
destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> nf_ct_destroy.

To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table
insertion but before the unlock.

Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen
before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and
before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this.

It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right
before the CONFIRMED bit was set:

Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation"
case: the entry will be skipped.

Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit.

The gc sequence is:
 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry
 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1.

nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an
expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes
ct->timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date
instead of a relative time.  Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry.

Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence:

 1. Check if entry has expired.
 2. Obtain a reference.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1:
    4 - entry is still observed as expired
    5 - meanwhile, ct->timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU
      and confirm bit gets set
    6 - confirm bit is seen
    7 - valid entry is removed again

First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either
confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for
re-inited conntrack objects.

This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without
commit 8a75a2c ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list")
|= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes.

	Cc: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/
Fixes: 1397af5 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list")
	Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2d72afb)
	Signed-off-by: Roxana Nicolescu <rnicolescu@ciq.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 23, 2025
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-78203

commit ee684de
Author: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 15 17:50:14 2025 +0200

    libbpf: Fix buffer overflow in bpf_object__init_prog
    
    As shown in [1], it is possible to corrupt a BPF ELF file such that
    arbitrary BPF instructions are loaded by libbpf. This can be done by
    setting a symbol (BPF program) section offset to a large (unsigned)
    number such that <section start + symbol offset> overflows and points
    before the section data in the memory.
    
    Consider the situation below where:
    - prog_start = sec_start + symbol_offset    <-- size_t overflow here
    - prog_end   = prog_start + prog_size
    
        prog_start        sec_start        prog_end        sec_end
            |                |                 |              |
            v                v                 v              v
        .....................|################################|............
    
    The report in [1] also provides a corrupted BPF ELF which can be used as
    a reproducer:
    
        $ readelf -S crash
        Section Headers:
          [Nr] Name              Type             Address           Offset
               Size              EntSize          Flags  Link  Info  Align
        ...
          [ 2] uretprobe.mu[...] PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000040
               0000000000000068  0000000000000000  AX       0     0     8
    
        $ readelf -s crash
        Symbol table '.symtab' contains 8 entries:
           Num:    Value          Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
        ...
             6: ffffffffffffffb8   104 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 handle_tp
    
    Here, the handle_tp prog has section offset ffffffffffffffb8, i.e. will
    point before the actual memory where section 2 is allocated.
    
    This is also reported by AddressSanitizer:
    
        =================================================================
        ==1232==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x7c7302fe0000 at pc 0x7fc3046e4b77 bp 0x7ffe64677cd0 sp 0x7ffe64677490
        READ of size 104 at 0x7c7302fe0000 thread T0
            #0 0x7fc3046e4b76 in memcpy (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xe4b76)
            #1 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__init_prog /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:856
            #2 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__add_programs /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:928
            #3 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__elf_collect /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:3930
            #4 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object_open /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:8067
            #5 0x00000040f176 in bpf_object__open_file /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:8090
            #6 0x000000400c16 in main /poc/poc.c:8
            #7 0x7fc3043d25b4 in __libc_start_call_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x35b4)
            #8 0x7fc3043d2667 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x3667)
            #9 0x000000400b34 in _start (/poc/poc+0x400b34)
    
        0x7c7302fe0000 is located 64 bytes before 104-byte region [0x7c7302fe0040,0x7c7302fe00a8)
        allocated by thread T0 here:
            #0 0x7fc3046e716b in malloc (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xe716b)
            #1 0x7fc3045ee600 in __libelf_set_rawdata_wrlock (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0xb600)
            #2 0x7fc3045ef018 in __elf_getdata_rdlock (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0xc018)
            #3 0x00000040642f in elf_sec_data /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:3740
    
    The problem here is that currently, libbpf only checks that the program
    end is within the section bounds. There used to be a check
    `while (sec_off < sec_sz)` in bpf_object__add_programs, however, it was
    removed by commit 6245947 ("libbpf: Allow gaps in BPF program
    sections to support overriden weak functions").
    
    Add a check for detecting the overflow of `sec_off + prog_sz` to
    bpf_object__init_prog to fix this issue.
    
    [1] https://github.com/lmarch2/poc/blob/main/libbpf/libbpf.md
    
    Fixes: 6245947 ("libbpf: Allow gaps in BPF program sections to support overriden weak functions")
    Reported-by: lmarch2 <2524158037@qq.com>
    Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
    Link: https://github.com/lmarch2/poc/blob/main/libbpf/libbpf.md
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250415155014.397603-1-vmalik@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
roxanan1996 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2025
jira VULN-89210
cve CVE-2025-38472
commit-author Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
commit 2d72afb

A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack
entry from the hash bucket list:
    [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172]
    [..]
 #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack]
 #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack]
 #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack]
    [..]

The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in
a partially initialised state:

 ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value
 (hence crash).
 ct->status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected
 ct->timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected.

Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry.  If we ignore
ct->status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly
allocated but not yet inserted into the hash:
  - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash
  - ct->timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow
    rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value.

If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED,
__nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry.

Theory is that we did hit following race:

cpu x 			cpu y			cpu z
 found entry E		found entry E
 E is expired		<preemption>
 nf_ct_delete()
 return E to rcu slab
					init_conntrack
					E is re-inited,
					ct->status set to 0
					reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev
					stores hash value.

cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x.
E is now re-inited on cpu z.  cpu y was preempted before
checking for expiry and/or confirm bit.

					->refcnt set to 1
					E now owned by skb
					->timeout set to 30000

If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as
expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit.

					nf_conntrack_confirm gets called
					sets: ct->status |= CONFIRMED
					This is wrong: E is not yet added
					to hashtable.

cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED:
			<resumes>
			nf_ct_expired()
			 -> yes (ct->timeout is 30s)
			confirmed bit set.

cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable:
			nf_ct_delete() -> set DYING bit
			__nf_ct_delete_from_lists

Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash:
cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks:

			wait for spinlock held by z

					CONFIRMED is set but there is no
					guarantee ct will be added to hash:
					"chaintoolong" or "clash resolution"
					logic both skip the insert step.
					reply hnnode.pprev still stores the
					hash value.

					unlocks spinlock
					return NF_DROP
			<unblocks, then
			 crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev>

In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink
E again right away but no crash occurs.

Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence:
ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets
destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> nf_ct_destroy.

To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table
insertion but before the unlock.

Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen
before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and
before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this.

It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right
before the CONFIRMED bit was set:

Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation"
case: the entry will be skipped.

Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit.

The gc sequence is:
 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry
 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1.

nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an
expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes
ct->timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date
instead of a relative time.  Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry.

Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence:

 1. Check if entry has expired.
 2. Obtain a reference.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1:
    4 - entry is still observed as expired
    5 - meanwhile, ct->timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU
      and confirm bit gets set
    6 - confirm bit is seen
    7 - valid entry is removed again

First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either
confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for
re-inited conntrack objects.

This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without
commit 8a75a2c ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list")
|= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes.

	Cc: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/
Fixes: 1397af5 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list")
	Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2d72afb)
	Signed-off-by: Roxana Nicolescu <rnicolescu@ciq.com>
shreeya-patel98 added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 30, 2025
jira VULN-89211
cve CVE-2025-38472
commit-author Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
commit 2d72afb

A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack
entry from the hash bucket list:
    [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172]
    [..]
 #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack]
 #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack]
 #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack]
    [..]

The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in
a partially initialised state:

 ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value
 (hence crash).
 ct->status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected
 ct->timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected.

Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry.  If we ignore
ct->status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly
allocated but not yet inserted into the hash:
  - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash
  - ct->timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow
    rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value.

If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED,
__nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry.

Theory is that we did hit following race:

cpu x 			cpu y			cpu z
 found entry E		found entry E
 E is expired		<preemption>
 nf_ct_delete()
 return E to rcu slab
					init_conntrack
					E is re-inited,
					ct->status set to 0
					reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev
					stores hash value.

cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x.
E is now re-inited on cpu z.  cpu y was preempted before
checking for expiry and/or confirm bit.

					->refcnt set to 1
					E now owned by skb
					->timeout set to 30000

If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as
expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit.

					nf_conntrack_confirm gets called
					sets: ct->status |= CONFIRMED
					This is wrong: E is not yet added
					to hashtable.

cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED:
			<resumes>
			nf_ct_expired()
			 -> yes (ct->timeout is 30s)
			confirmed bit set.

cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable:
			nf_ct_delete() -> set DYING bit
			__nf_ct_delete_from_lists

Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash:
cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks:

			wait for spinlock held by z

					CONFIRMED is set but there is no
					guarantee ct will be added to hash:
					"chaintoolong" or "clash resolution"
					logic both skip the insert step.
					reply hnnode.pprev still stores the
					hash value.

					unlocks spinlock
					return NF_DROP
			<unblocks, then
			 crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev>

In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink
E again right away but no crash occurs.

Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence:
ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets
destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> nf_ct_destroy.

To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table
insertion but before the unlock.

Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen
before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and
before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this.

It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right
before the CONFIRMED bit was set:

Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation"
case: the entry will be skipped.

Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit.

The gc sequence is:
 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry
 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1.

nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an
expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes
ct->timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date
instead of a relative time.  Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry.

Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence:

 1. Check if entry has expired.
 2. Obtain a reference.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1:
    4 - entry is still observed as expired
    5 - meanwhile, ct->timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU
      and confirm bit gets set
    6 - confirm bit is seen
    7 - valid entry is removed again

First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either
confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for
re-inited conntrack objects.

This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without
commit 8a75a2c ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list")
|= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes.

	Cc: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/
Fixes: 1397af5 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list")
	Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2d72afb)
	Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <spatel@ciq.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 2, 2025
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-78200

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commit ea04fe1
Author: Aditya Bodkhe <aditya.b1@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Tue Apr 29 12:21:32 2025 +0530

description
===========
pert script tests fails with segmentation fault as below:

  92: perf script tests:
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 103769
  DB test
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.012 MB /tmp/perf-test-script.7rbftEpOzX/perf.data (9 samples) ]
  /usr/libexec/perf-core/tests/shell/script.sh: line 35:
  103780 Segmentation fault      (core dumped)
  perf script -i "${perfdatafile}" -s "${db_test}"
  --- Cleaning up ---
  ---- end(-1) ----
  92: perf script tests                                               : FAILED!

Backtrace pointed to :
	#0  0x0000000010247dd0 in maps.machine ()
	#1  0x00000000101d178c in db_export.sample ()
	#2  0x00000000103412c8 in python_process_event ()
	#3  0x000000001004eb28 in process_sample_event ()
	#4  0x000000001024fcd0 in machines.deliver_event ()
	#5  0x000000001025005c in perf_session.deliver_event ()
	#6  0x00000000102568b0 in __ordered_events__flush.part.0 ()
	#7  0x0000000010251618 in perf_session.process_events ()
	#8  0x0000000010053620 in cmd_script ()
	#9  0x00000000100b5a28 in run_builtin ()
	#10 0x00000000100b5f94 in handle_internal_command ()
	#11 0x0000000010011114 in main ()

Further investigation reveals that this occurs in the `perf script tests`,
because it uses `db_test.py` script. This script sets `perf_db_export_mode = True`.

With `perf_db_export_mode` enabled, if a sample originates from a hypervisor,
perf doesn't set maps for "[H]" sample in the code. Consequently, `al->maps` remains NULL
when `maps__machine(al->maps)` is called from `db_export__sample`.

As al->maps can be NULL in case of Hypervisor samples , use thread->maps
because even for Hypervisor sample, machine should exist.
If we don't have machine for some reason, return -1 to avoid segmentation fault.

    Reported-by: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: Aditya Bodkhe <aditya.b1@linux.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Tested-by: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.ibm.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250429065132.36839-1-adityab1@linux.ibm.com
    Suggested-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Anubhav Shelat <ashelat@redhat.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 2, 2025
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-78200

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commit c21986d
Author: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>
Date: Mon May 5 18:44:19 2025 +0100

description
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Without the change `perf `hangs up on charaster devices. On my system
it's enough to run system-wide sampler for a few seconds to get the
hangup:

    $ perf record -a -g --call-graph=dwarf
    $ perf report
    # hung

`strace` shows that hangup happens on reading on a character device
`/dev/dri/renderD128`

    $ strace -y -f -p 2780484
    strace: Process 2780484 attached
    pread64(101</dev/dri/renderD128>, strace: Process 2780484 detached

It's call trace descends into `elfutils`:

    $ gdb -p 2780484
    (gdb) bt
    #0  0x00007f5e508f04b7 in __libc_pread64 (fd=101, buf=0x7fff9df7edb0, count=0, offset=0)
        at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pread64.c:25
    #1  0x00007f5e52b79515 in read_file () from /<<NIX>>/elfutils-0.192/lib/libelf.so.1
    #2  0x00007f5e52b25666 in libdw_open_elf () from /<<NIX>>/elfutils-0.192/lib/libdw.so.1
    #3  0x00007f5e52b25907 in __libdw_open_file () from /<<NIX>>/elfutils-0.192/lib/libdw.so.1
    #4  0x00007f5e52b120a9 in dwfl_report_elf@@ELFUTILS_0.156 ()
       from /<<NIX>>/elfutils-0.192/lib/libdw.so.1
    #5  0x000000000068bf20 in __report_module (al=al@entry=0x7fff9df80010, ip=ip@entry=139803237033216, ui=ui@entry=0x5369b5e0)
        at util/dso.h:537
    #6  0x000000000068c3d1 in report_module (ip=139803237033216, ui=0x5369b5e0) at util/unwind-libdw.c:114
    #7  frame_callback (state=0x535aef10, arg=0x5369b5e0) at util/unwind-libdw.c:242
    #8  0x00007f5e52b261d3 in dwfl_thread_getframes () from /<<NIX>>/elfutils-0.192/lib/libdw.so.1
    #9  0x00007f5e52b25bdb in get_one_thread_cb () from /<<NIX>>/elfutils-0.192/lib/libdw.so.1
    #10 0x00007f5e52b25faa in dwfl_getthreads () from /<<NIX>>/elfutils-0.192/lib/libdw.so.1
    #11 0x00007f5e52b26514 in dwfl_getthread_frames () from /<<NIX>>/elfutils-0.192/lib/libdw.so.1
    #12 0x000000000068c6ce in unwind__get_entries (cb=cb@entry=0x5d4620 <unwind_entry>, arg=arg@entry=0x10cd5fa0,
        thread=thread@entry=0x1076a290, data=data@entry=0x7fff9df80540, max_stack=max_stack@entry=127,
        best_effort=best_effort@entry=false) at util/thread.h:152
    #13 0x00000000005dae95 in thread__resolve_callchain_unwind (evsel=0x106006d0, thread=0x1076a290, cursor=0x10cd5fa0,
        sample=0x7fff9df80540, max_stack=127, symbols=true) at util/machine.c:2939
    #14 thread__resolve_callchain_unwind (thread=0x1076a290, cursor=0x10cd5fa0, evsel=0x106006d0, sample=0x7fff9df80540,
        max_stack=127, symbols=true) at util/machine.c:2920
    #15 __thread__resolve_callchain (thread=0x1076a290, cursor=0x10cd5fa0, evsel=0x106006d0, evsel@entry=0x7fff9df80440,
        sample=0x7fff9df80540, parent=parent@entry=0x7fff9df804a0, root_al=root_al@entry=0x7fff9df80440, max_stack=127, symbols=true)
        at util/machine.c:2970
    #16 0x00000000005d0cb2 in thread__resolve_callchain (thread=<optimized out>, cursor=<optimized out>, evsel=0x7fff9df80440,
        sample=<optimized out>, parent=0x7fff9df804a0, root_al=0x7fff9df80440, max_stack=127) at util/machine.h:198
    #17 sample__resolve_callchain (sample=<optimized out>, cursor=<optimized out>, parent=parent@entry=0x7fff9df804a0,
        evsel=evsel@entry=0x106006d0, al=al@entry=0x7fff9df80440, max_stack=max_stack@entry=127) at util/callchain.c:1127
    #18 0x0000000000617e08 in hist_entry_iter__add (iter=iter@entry=0x7fff9df80480, al=al@entry=0x7fff9df80440, max_stack_depth=127,
        arg=arg@entry=0x7fff9df81ae0) at util/hist.c:1255
    #19 0x000000000045d2d0 in process_sample_event (tool=0x7fff9df81ae0, event=<optimized out>, sample=0x7fff9df80540,
        evsel=0x106006d0, machine=<optimized out>) at builtin-report.c:334
    #20 0x00000000005e3bb1 in perf_session__deliver_event (session=0x105ff2c0, event=0x7f5c7d735ca0, tool=0x7fff9df81ae0,
        file_offset=2914716832, file_path=0x105ffbf0 "perf.data") at util/session.c:1367
    #21 0x00000000005e8d93 in do_flush (oe=0x105ffa50, show_progress=false) at util/ordered-events.c:245
    #22 __ordered_events__flush (oe=0x105ffa50, how=OE_FLUSH__ROUND, timestamp=<optimized out>) at util/ordered-events.c:324
    #23 0x00000000005e1f64 in perf_session__process_user_event (session=0x105ff2c0, event=0x7f5c7d752b18, file_offset=2914835224,
        file_path=0x105ffbf0 "perf.data") at util/session.c:1419
    #24 0x00000000005e47c7 in reader__read_event (rd=rd@entry=0x7fff9df81260, session=session@entry=0x105ff2c0,
    --Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--
    quit
        prog=prog@entry=0x7fff9df81220) at util/session.c:2132
    #25 0x00000000005e4b37 in reader__process_events (rd=0x7fff9df81260, session=0x105ff2c0, prog=0x7fff9df81220)
        at util/session.c:2181
    #26 __perf_session__process_events (session=0x105ff2c0) at util/session.c:2226
    #27 perf_session__process_events (session=session@entry=0x105ff2c0) at util/session.c:2390
    #28 0x0000000000460add in __cmd_report (rep=0x7fff9df81ae0) at builtin-report.c:1076
    #29 cmd_report (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at builtin-report.c:1827
    #30 0x00000000004c5a40 in run_builtin (p=p@entry=0xd8f7f8 <commands+312>, argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7fff9df844b0)
        at perf.c:351
    #31 0x00000000004c5d63 in handle_internal_command (argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7fff9df844b0) at perf.c:404
    #32 0x0000000000442de3 in run_argv (argcp=<synthetic pointer>, argv=<synthetic pointer>) at perf.c:448
    #33 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0x7fff9df844b0) at perf.c:556

The hangup happens because nothing in` perf` or `elfutils` checks if a
mapped file is easily readable.

The change conservatively skips all non-regular files.

    Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250505174419.2814857-1-slyich@gmail.com
    Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Anubhav Shelat <ashelat@redhat.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 2, 2025
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-78200

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commit 9c9f4a2
Author: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Date: Tue Jun 24 14:05:00 2025 -0700

description
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Symbolize stack traces by creating a live machine. Add this
functionality to dump_stack and switch dump_stack users to use
it. Switch TUI to use it. Add stack traces to the child test function
which can be useful to diagnose blocked code.

Example output:
```
$ perf test -vv PERF_RECORD_
...
  7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields:
  7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields                       : Running (1 active)
^C
Signal (2) while running tests.
Terminating tests with the same signal
Internal test harness failure. Completing any started tests:
:  7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields:

---- unexpected signal (2) ----
    #0 0x55788c6210a3 in child_test_sig_handler builtin-test.c:0
    #1 0x7fc12fe49df0 in __restore_rt libc_sigaction.c:0
    #2 0x7fc12fe99687 in __internal_syscall_cancel cancellation.c:64
    #3 0x7fc12fee5f7a in clock_nanosleep@GLIBC_2.2.5 clock_nanosleep.c:72
    #4 0x7fc12fef1393 in __nanosleep nanosleep.c:26
    #5 0x7fc12ff02d68 in __sleep sleep.c:55
    #6 0x55788c63196b in test__PERF_RECORD perf-record.c:0
    #7 0x55788c620fb0 in run_test_child builtin-test.c:0
    #8 0x55788c5bd18d in start_command run-command.c:127
    #9 0x55788c621ef3 in __cmd_test builtin-test.c:0
    #10 0x55788c6225bf in cmd_test ??:0
    #11 0x55788c5afbd0 in run_builtin perf.c:0
    #12 0x55788c5afeeb in handle_internal_command perf.c:0
    #13 0x55788c52b383 in main ??:0
    #14 0x7fc12fe33ca8 in __libc_start_call_main libc_start_call_main.h:74
    #15 0x7fc12fe33d65 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 libc-start.c:128
    #16 0x55788c52b9d1 in _start ??:0

---- unexpected signal (2) ----
    #0 0x55788c6210a3 in child_test_sig_handler builtin-test.c:0
    #1 0x7fc12fe49df0 in __restore_rt libc_sigaction.c:0
    #2 0x7fc12fea3a14 in pthread_sigmask@GLIBC_2.2.5 pthread_sigmask.c:45
    #3 0x7fc12fe49fd9 in __GI___sigprocmask sigprocmask.c:26
    #4 0x7fc12ff2601b in __longjmp_chk longjmp.c:36
    #5 0x55788c6210c0 in print_test_result.isra.0 builtin-test.c:0
    #6 0x7fc12fe49df0 in __restore_rt libc_sigaction.c:0
    #7 0x7fc12fe99687 in __internal_syscall_cancel cancellation.c:64
    #8 0x7fc12fee5f7a in clock_nanosleep@GLIBC_2.2.5 clock_nanosleep.c:72
    #9 0x7fc12fef1393 in __nanosleep nanosleep.c:26
    #10 0x7fc12ff02d68 in __sleep sleep.c:55
    #11 0x55788c63196b in test__PERF_RECORD perf-record.c:0
    #12 0x55788c620fb0 in run_test_child builtin-test.c:0
    #13 0x55788c5bd18d in start_command run-command.c:127
    #14 0x55788c621ef3 in __cmd_test builtin-test.c:0
    #15 0x55788c6225bf in cmd_test ??:0
    #16 0x55788c5afbd0 in run_builtin perf.c:0
    #17 0x55788c5afeeb in handle_internal_command perf.c:0
    #18 0x55788c52b383 in main ??:0
    #19 0x7fc12fe33ca8 in __libc_start_call_main libc_start_call_main.h:74
    #20 0x7fc12fe33d65 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 libc-start.c:128
    #21 0x55788c52b9d1 in _start ??:0
  7: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields                       : Skip (permissions)
```

    Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250624210500.2121303-1-irogers@google.com
    Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Anubhav Shelat <ashelat@redhat.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 2, 2025
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-78200

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commit c72bf82
Author: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
Date: Thu Jun 12 11:36:59 2025 -0500

description
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Calling perf top with branch filters enabled on Intel CPU's
with branch counters logging (A.K.A LBR event logging [1]) support
results in a segfault.

$ perf top  -e '{cpu_core/cpu-cycles/,cpu_core/event=0xc6,umask=0x3,frontend=0x11,name=frontend_retired_dsb_miss/}' -j any,counter
...
Thread 27 "perf" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffafff76c0 (LWP 949003)]
perf_env__find_br_cntr_info (env=0xf66dc0 <perf_env>, nr=0x0, width=0x7fffafff62c0) at util/env.c:653
653			*width = env->cpu_pmu_caps ? env->br_cntr_width :
(gdb) bt
 #0  perf_env__find_br_cntr_info (env=0xf66dc0 <perf_env>, nr=0x0, width=0x7fffafff62c0) at util/env.c:653
 #1  0x00000000005b1599 in symbol__account_br_cntr (branch=0x7fffcc3db580, evsel=0xfea2d0, offset=12, br_cntr=8) at util/annotate.c:345
 #2  0x00000000005b17fb in symbol__account_cycles (addr=5658172, start=5658160, sym=0x7fffcc0ee420, cycles=539, evsel=0xfea2d0, br_cntr=8) at util/annotate.c:389
 #3  0x00000000005b1976 in addr_map_symbol__account_cycles (ams=0x7fffcd7b01d0, start=0x7fffcd7b02b0, cycles=539, evsel=0xfea2d0, br_cntr=8) at util/annotate.c:422
 #4  0x000000000068d57f in hist__account_cycles (bs=0x110d288, al=0x7fffafff6540, sample=0x7fffafff6760, nonany_branch_mode=false, total_cycles=0x0, evsel=0xfea2d0) at util/hist.c:2850
 #5  0x0000000000446216 in hist_iter__top_callback (iter=0x7fffafff6590, al=0x7fffafff6540, single=true, arg=0x7fffffff9e00) at builtin-top.c:737
 #6  0x0000000000689787 in hist_entry_iter__add (iter=0x7fffafff6590, al=0x7fffafff6540, max_stack_depth=127, arg=0x7fffffff9e00) at util/hist.c:1359
 #7  0x0000000000446710 in perf_event__process_sample (tool=0x7fffffff9e00, event=0x110d250, evsel=0xfea2d0, sample=0x7fffafff6760, machine=0x108c968) at builtin-top.c:845
 #8  0x0000000000447735 in deliver_event (qe=0x7fffffffa120, qevent=0x10fc200) at builtin-top.c:1211
 #9  0x000000000064ccae in do_flush (oe=0x7fffffffa120, show_progress=false) at util/ordered-events.c:245
 #10 0x000000000064d005 in __ordered_events__flush (oe=0x7fffffffa120, how=OE_FLUSH__TOP, timestamp=0) at util/ordered-events.c:324
 #11 0x000000000064d0ef in ordered_events__flush (oe=0x7fffffffa120, how=OE_FLUSH__TOP) at util/ordered-events.c:342
 #12 0x00000000004472a9 in process_thread (arg=0x7fffffff9e00) at builtin-top.c:1120
 #13 0x00007ffff6e7dba8 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at pthread_create.c:448
 #14 0x00007ffff6f01b8c in __GI___clone3 () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:78

The cause is that perf_env__find_br_cntr_info tries to access a
null pointer pmu_caps in the perf_env struct. A similar issue exists
for homogeneous core systems which use the cpu_pmu_caps structure.

Fix this by populating cpu_pmu_caps and pmu_caps structures with
values from sysfs when calling perf top with branch stack sampling
enabled.

[1], LBR event logging introduced here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231025201626.3000228-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com/

    Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612163659.1357950-2-thomas.falcon@intel.com
    Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Anubhav Shelat <ashelat@redhat.com>
shreeya-patel98 added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 3, 2025
jira VULN-89211
cve CVE-2025-38472
commit-author Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
commit 2d72afb

A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack
entry from the hash bucket list:
    [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172]
    [..]
 #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack]
 #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack]
 #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack]
    [..]

The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in
a partially initialised state:

 ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value
 (hence crash).
 ct->status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected
 ct->timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected.

Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry.  If we ignore
ct->status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly
allocated but not yet inserted into the hash:
  - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash
  - ct->timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow
    rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value.

If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED,
__nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry.

Theory is that we did hit following race:

cpu x 			cpu y			cpu z
 found entry E		found entry E
 E is expired		<preemption>
 nf_ct_delete()
 return E to rcu slab
					init_conntrack
					E is re-inited,
					ct->status set to 0
					reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev
					stores hash value.

cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x.
E is now re-inited on cpu z.  cpu y was preempted before
checking for expiry and/or confirm bit.

					->refcnt set to 1
					E now owned by skb
					->timeout set to 30000

If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as
expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit.

					nf_conntrack_confirm gets called
					sets: ct->status |= CONFIRMED
					This is wrong: E is not yet added
					to hashtable.

cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED:
			<resumes>
			nf_ct_expired()
			 -> yes (ct->timeout is 30s)
			confirmed bit set.

cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable:
			nf_ct_delete() -> set DYING bit
			__nf_ct_delete_from_lists

Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash:
cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks:

			wait for spinlock held by z

					CONFIRMED is set but there is no
					guarantee ct will be added to hash:
					"chaintoolong" or "clash resolution"
					logic both skip the insert step.
					reply hnnode.pprev still stores the
					hash value.

					unlocks spinlock
					return NF_DROP
			<unblocks, then
			 crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev>

In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink
E again right away but no crash occurs.

Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence:
ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets
destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> nf_ct_destroy.

To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table
insertion but before the unlock.

Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen
before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and
before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this.

It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right
before the CONFIRMED bit was set:

Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation"
case: the entry will be skipped.

Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit.

The gc sequence is:
 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry
 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1.

nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an
expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes
ct->timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date
instead of a relative time.  Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry.

Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence:

 1. Check if entry has expired.
 2. Obtain a reference.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1:
    4 - entry is still observed as expired
    5 - meanwhile, ct->timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU
      and confirm bit gets set
    6 - confirm bit is seen
    7 - valid entry is removed again

First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either
confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for
re-inited conntrack objects.

This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without
commit 8a75a2c ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list")
|= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes.

	Cc: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/
Fixes: 1397af5 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list")
	Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2d72afb)
	Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <spatel@ciq.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 14, 2025
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-110274

commit ee684de
Author: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 15 17:50:14 2025 +0200

    libbpf: Fix buffer overflow in bpf_object__init_prog
    
    As shown in [1], it is possible to corrupt a BPF ELF file such that
    arbitrary BPF instructions are loaded by libbpf. This can be done by
    setting a symbol (BPF program) section offset to a large (unsigned)
    number such that <section start + symbol offset> overflows and points
    before the section data in the memory.
    
    Consider the situation below where:
    - prog_start = sec_start + symbol_offset    <-- size_t overflow here
    - prog_end   = prog_start + prog_size
    
        prog_start        sec_start        prog_end        sec_end
            |                |                 |              |
            v                v                 v              v
        .....................|################################|............
    
    The report in [1] also provides a corrupted BPF ELF which can be used as
    a reproducer:
    
        $ readelf -S crash
        Section Headers:
          [Nr] Name              Type             Address           Offset
               Size              EntSize          Flags  Link  Info  Align
        ...
          [ 2] uretprobe.mu[...] PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000040
               0000000000000068  0000000000000000  AX       0     0     8
    
        $ readelf -s crash
        Symbol table '.symtab' contains 8 entries:
           Num:    Value          Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
        ...
             6: ffffffffffffffb8   104 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 handle_tp
    
    Here, the handle_tp prog has section offset ffffffffffffffb8, i.e. will
    point before the actual memory where section 2 is allocated.
    
    This is also reported by AddressSanitizer:
    
        =================================================================
        ==1232==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x7c7302fe0000 at pc 0x7fc3046e4b77 bp 0x7ffe64677cd0 sp 0x7ffe64677490
        READ of size 104 at 0x7c7302fe0000 thread T0
            #0 0x7fc3046e4b76 in memcpy (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xe4b76)
            #1 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__init_prog /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:856
            #2 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__add_programs /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:928
            #3 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__elf_collect /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:3930
            #4 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object_open /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:8067
            #5 0x00000040f176 in bpf_object__open_file /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:8090
            #6 0x000000400c16 in main /poc/poc.c:8
            #7 0x7fc3043d25b4 in __libc_start_call_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x35b4)
            #8 0x7fc3043d2667 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x3667)
            #9 0x000000400b34 in _start (/poc/poc+0x400b34)
    
        0x7c7302fe0000 is located 64 bytes before 104-byte region [0x7c7302fe0040,0x7c7302fe00a8)
        allocated by thread T0 here:
            #0 0x7fc3046e716b in malloc (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xe716b)
            #1 0x7fc3045ee600 in __libelf_set_rawdata_wrlock (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0xb600)
            #2 0x7fc3045ef018 in __elf_getdata_rdlock (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0xc018)
            #3 0x00000040642f in elf_sec_data /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:3740
    
    The problem here is that currently, libbpf only checks that the program
    end is within the section bounds. There used to be a check
    `while (sec_off < sec_sz)` in bpf_object__add_programs, however, it was
    removed by commit 6245947 ("libbpf: Allow gaps in BPF program
    sections to support overriden weak functions").
    
    Add a check for detecting the overflow of `sec_off + prog_sz` to
    bpf_object__init_prog to fix this issue.
    
    [1] https://github.com/lmarch2/poc/blob/main/libbpf/libbpf.md
    
    Fixes: 6245947 ("libbpf: Allow gaps in BPF program sections to support overriden weak functions")
    Reported-by: lmarch2 <2524158037@qq.com>
    Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
    Link: https://github.com/lmarch2/poc/blob/main/libbpf/libbpf.md
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250415155014.397603-1-vmalik@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
PlaidCat added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 19, 2025
jira KERNEL-101
cve CVE-2025-38472
Rebuild_History Non-Buildable kernel-5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7
commit-author Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
commit 2d72afb

A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack
entry from the hash bucket list:
    [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172]
    [..]
 #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack]
 #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack]
 #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack]
    [..]

The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in
a partially initialised state:

 ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value
 (hence crash).
 ct->status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected
 ct->timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected.

Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry.  If we ignore
ct->status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly
allocated but not yet inserted into the hash:
  - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash
  - ct->timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow
    rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value.

If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED,
__nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry.

Theory is that we did hit following race:

cpu x 			cpu y			cpu z
 found entry E		found entry E
 E is expired		<preemption>
 nf_ct_delete()
 return E to rcu slab
					init_conntrack
					E is re-inited,
					ct->status set to 0
					reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev
					stores hash value.

cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x.
E is now re-inited on cpu z.  cpu y was preempted before
checking for expiry and/or confirm bit.

					->refcnt set to 1
					E now owned by skb
					->timeout set to 30000

If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as
expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit.

					nf_conntrack_confirm gets called
					sets: ct->status |= CONFIRMED
					This is wrong: E is not yet added
					to hashtable.

cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED:
			<resumes>
			nf_ct_expired()
			 -> yes (ct->timeout is 30s)
			confirmed bit set.

cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable:
			nf_ct_delete() -> set DYING bit
			__nf_ct_delete_from_lists

Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash:
cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks:

			wait for spinlock held by z

					CONFIRMED is set but there is no
					guarantee ct will be added to hash:
					"chaintoolong" or "clash resolution"
					logic both skip the insert step.
					reply hnnode.pprev still stores the
					hash value.

					unlocks spinlock
					return NF_DROP
			<unblocks, then
			 crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev>

In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink
E again right away but no crash occurs.

Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence:
ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets
destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> nf_ct_destroy.

To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table
insertion but before the unlock.

Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen
before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and
before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this.

It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right
before the CONFIRMED bit was set:

Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation"
case: the entry will be skipped.

Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit.

The gc sequence is:
 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry
 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1.

nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an
expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes
ct->timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date
instead of a relative time.  Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry.

Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence:

 1. Check if entry has expired.
 2. Obtain a reference.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1:
    4 - entry is still observed as expired
    5 - meanwhile, ct->timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU
      and confirm bit gets set
    6 - confirm bit is seen
    7 - valid entry is removed again

First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either
confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for
re-inited conntrack objects.

This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without
commit 8a75a2c ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list")
|= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes.

	Cc: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/
Fixes: 1397af5 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list")
	Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2d72afb)
	Signed-off-by: Jonathan Maple <jmaple@ciq.com>
PlaidCat added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 21, 2025
jira KERNEL-156
cve CVE-2025-38472
Rebuild_History Non-Buildable kernel-6.12.0-124.2.1.el10_1
commit-author Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
commit 2d72afb

A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack
entry from the hash bucket list:
    [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172]
    [..]
 #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack]
 #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack]
 #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack]
    [..]

The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in
a partially initialised state:

 ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value
 (hence crash).
 ct->status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected
 ct->timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected.

Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry.  If we ignore
ct->status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly
allocated but not yet inserted into the hash:
  - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash
  - ct->timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow
    rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value.

If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED,
__nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry.

Theory is that we did hit following race:

cpu x 			cpu y			cpu z
 found entry E		found entry E
 E is expired		<preemption>
 nf_ct_delete()
 return E to rcu slab
					init_conntrack
					E is re-inited,
					ct->status set to 0
					reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev
					stores hash value.

cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x.
E is now re-inited on cpu z.  cpu y was preempted before
checking for expiry and/or confirm bit.

					->refcnt set to 1
					E now owned by skb
					->timeout set to 30000

If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as
expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit.

					nf_conntrack_confirm gets called
					sets: ct->status |= CONFIRMED
					This is wrong: E is not yet added
					to hashtable.

cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED:
			<resumes>
			nf_ct_expired()
			 -> yes (ct->timeout is 30s)
			confirmed bit set.

cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable:
			nf_ct_delete() -> set DYING bit
			__nf_ct_delete_from_lists

Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash:
cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks:

			wait for spinlock held by z

					CONFIRMED is set but there is no
					guarantee ct will be added to hash:
					"chaintoolong" or "clash resolution"
					logic both skip the insert step.
					reply hnnode.pprev still stores the
					hash value.

					unlocks spinlock
					return NF_DROP
			<unblocks, then
			 crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev>

In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink
E again right away but no crash occurs.

Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence:
ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets
destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> nf_ct_destroy.

To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table
insertion but before the unlock.

Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen
before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and
before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this.

It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right
before the CONFIRMED bit was set:

Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation"
case: the entry will be skipped.

Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit.

The gc sequence is:
 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry
 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1.

nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an
expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes
ct->timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date
instead of a relative time.  Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry.

Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence:

 1. Check if entry has expired.
 2. Obtain a reference.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1:
    4 - entry is still observed as expired
    5 - meanwhile, ct->timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU
      and confirm bit gets set
    6 - confirm bit is seen
    7 - valid entry is removed again

First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either
confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for
re-inited conntrack objects.

This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without
commit 8a75a2c ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list")
|= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes.

	Cc: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/
Fixes: 1397af5 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list")
	Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2d72afb)
	Signed-off-by: Jonathan Maple <jmaple@ciq.com>
PlaidCat added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 21, 2025
jira KERNEL-156
cve CVE-2025-38472
Rebuild_History Non-Buildable kernel-6.12.0-124.2.1.el10_1
commit-author Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
commit 2d72afb

A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack
entry from the hash bucket list:
    [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172]
    [..]
 #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack]
 #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack]
 #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack]
    [..]

The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in
a partially initialised state:

 ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value
 (hence crash).
 ct->status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected
 ct->timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected.

Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry.  If we ignore
ct->status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly
allocated but not yet inserted into the hash:
  - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash
  - ct->timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow
    rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value.

If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED,
__nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry.

Theory is that we did hit following race:

cpu x 			cpu y			cpu z
 found entry E		found entry E
 E is expired		<preemption>
 nf_ct_delete()
 return E to rcu slab
					init_conntrack
					E is re-inited,
					ct->status set to 0
					reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev
					stores hash value.

cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x.
E is now re-inited on cpu z.  cpu y was preempted before
checking for expiry and/or confirm bit.

					->refcnt set to 1
					E now owned by skb
					->timeout set to 30000

If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as
expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit.

					nf_conntrack_confirm gets called
					sets: ct->status |= CONFIRMED
					This is wrong: E is not yet added
					to hashtable.

cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED:
			<resumes>
			nf_ct_expired()
			 -> yes (ct->timeout is 30s)
			confirmed bit set.

cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable:
			nf_ct_delete() -> set DYING bit
			__nf_ct_delete_from_lists

Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash:
cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks:

			wait for spinlock held by z

					CONFIRMED is set but there is no
					guarantee ct will be added to hash:
					"chaintoolong" or "clash resolution"
					logic both skip the insert step.
					reply hnnode.pprev still stores the
					hash value.

					unlocks spinlock
					return NF_DROP
			<unblocks, then
			 crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev>

In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink
E again right away but no crash occurs.

Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence:
ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets
destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> nf_ct_destroy.

To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table
insertion but before the unlock.

Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen
before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and
before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this.

It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right
before the CONFIRMED bit was set:

Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation"
case: the entry will be skipped.

Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit.

The gc sequence is:
 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry
 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1.

nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an
expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes
ct->timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date
instead of a relative time.  Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry.

Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence:

 1. Check if entry has expired.
 2. Obtain a reference.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1:
    4 - entry is still observed as expired
    5 - meanwhile, ct->timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU
      and confirm bit gets set
    6 - confirm bit is seen
    7 - valid entry is removed again

First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either
confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for
re-inited conntrack objects.

This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without
commit 8a75a2c ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list")
|= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes.

	Cc: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/
Fixes: 1397af5 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list")
	Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
	Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2d72afb)
	Signed-off-by: Jonathan Maple <jmaple@ciq.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 28, 2025
[WHAT]
IGT kms_cursor_legacy's long-nonblocking-modeset-vs-cursor-atomic
fails with NULL pointer dereference. This can be reproduced with
both an eDP panel and a DP monitors connected.

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 13 UID: 0 PID: 2960 Comm: kms_cursor_lega Not tainted
6.16.0-99-custom #8 PREEMPT(voluntary)
 Hardware name: AMD ........
 RIP: 0010:dc_stream_get_scanoutpos+0x34/0x130 [amdgpu]
 Code: 57 4d 89 c7 41 56 49 89 ce 41 55 49 89 d5 41 54 49
 89 fc 53 48 83 ec 18 48 8b 87 a0 64 00 00 48 89 75 d0 48 c7 c6 e0 41 30
 c2 <48> 8b 38 48 8b 9f 68 06 00 00 e8 8d d7 fd ff 31 c0 48 81 c3 e0 02
 RSP: 0018:ffffd0f3c2bd7608 EFLAGS: 00010292
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffd0f3c2bd7668
 RDX: ffffd0f3c2bd7664 RSI: ffffffffc23041e0 RDI: ffff8b32494b8000
 RBP: ffffd0f3c2bd7648 R08: ffffd0f3c2bd766c R09: ffffd0f3c2bd7760
 R10: ffffd0f3c2bd7820 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b32494b8000
 R13: ffffd0f3c2bd7664 R14: ffffd0f3c2bd7668 R15: ffffd0f3c2bd766c
 FS:  000071f631b68700(0000) GS:ffff8b399f114000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001b8105000 CR4: 0000000000f50ef0
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dm_crtc_get_scanoutpos+0xd7/0x180 [amdgpu]
 amdgpu_display_get_crtc_scanoutpos+0x86/0x1c0 [amdgpu]
 ? __pfx_amdgpu_crtc_get_scanout_position+0x10/0x10[amdgpu]
 amdgpu_crtc_get_scanout_position+0x27/0x50 [amdgpu]
 drm_crtc_vblank_helper_get_vblank_timestamp_internal+0xf7/0x400
 drm_crtc_vblank_helper_get_vblank_timestamp+0x1c/0x30
 drm_crtc_get_last_vbltimestamp+0x55/0x90
 drm_crtc_next_vblank_start+0x45/0xa0
 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_fences+0x81/0x1f0
 ...

Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Aurabindo Pillai <aurabindo.pillai@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
(cherry picked from commit 621e55f)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 3, 2025
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-122021
CVE: CVE-2023-52894

commit c6ec929
Author: =?UTF-8?q?Maciej=20=C5=BBenczykowski?= <maze@google.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:18:39 -0800

  In Google internal bug 265639009 we've received an (as yet) unreproducible
  crash report from an aarch64 GKI 5.10.149-android13 running device.

  AFAICT the source code is at:
    https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/refs/tags/ASB-2022-12-05_13-5.10

  The call stack is:
    ncm_close() -> ncm_notify() -> ncm_do_notify()
  with the crash at:
    ncm_do_notify+0x98/0x270
  Code: 79000d0b b9000a6c f940012a f9400269 (b9405d4b)

  Which I believe disassembles to (I don't know ARM assembly, but it looks sane enough to me...):

    // halfword (16-bit) store presumably to event->wLength (at offset 6 of struct usb_cdc_notification)
    0B 0D 00 79    strh w11, [x8, #6]

    // word (32-bit) store presumably to req->Length (at offset 8 of struct usb_request)
    6C 0A 00 B9    str  w12, [x19, #8]

    // x10 (NULL) was read here from offset 0 of valid pointer x9
    // IMHO we're reading 'cdev->gadget' and getting NULL
    // gadget is indeed at offset 0 of struct usb_composite_dev
    2A 01 40 F9    ldr  x10, [x9]

    // loading req->buf pointer, which is at offset 0 of struct usb_request
    69 02 40 F9    ldr  x9, [x19]

    // x10 is null, crash, appears to be attempt to read cdev->gadget->max_speed
    4B 5D 40 B9    ldr  w11, [x10, #0x5c]

  which seems to line up with ncm_do_notify() case NCM_NOTIFY_SPEED code fragment:

    event->wLength = cpu_to_le16(8);
    req->length = NCM_STATUS_BYTECOUNT;

    /* SPEED_CHANGE data is up/down speeds in bits/sec */
    data = req->buf + sizeof *event;
    data[0] = cpu_to_le32(ncm_bitrate(cdev->gadget));

  My analysis of registers and NULL ptr deref crash offset
    (Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000000000005c)
  heavily suggests that the crash is due to 'cdev->gadget' being NULL when executing:
    data[0] = cpu_to_le32(ncm_bitrate(cdev->gadget));
  which calls:
    ncm_bitrate(NULL)
  which then calls:
    gadget_is_superspeed(NULL)
  which reads
    ((struct usb_gadget *)NULL)->max_speed
  and hits a panic.

  AFAICT, if I'm counting right, the offset of max_speed is indeed 0x5C.
  (remember there's a GKI KABI reservation of 16 bytes in struct work_struct)

  It's not at all clear to me how this is all supposed to work...
  but returning 0 seems much better than panic-ing...

  Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
  Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
  Cc: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
  Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
  Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
  Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230117131839.1138208-1-maze@google.com
  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Desnes Nunes <desnesn@redhat.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 7, 2025
commit 3ce62c1 upstream.

[WHAT]
IGT kms_cursor_legacy's long-nonblocking-modeset-vs-cursor-atomic
fails with NULL pointer dereference. This can be reproduced with
both an eDP panel and a DP monitors connected.

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 13 UID: 0 PID: 2960 Comm: kms_cursor_lega Not tainted
6.16.0-99-custom #8 PREEMPT(voluntary)
 Hardware name: AMD ........
 RIP: 0010:dc_stream_get_scanoutpos+0x34/0x130 [amdgpu]
 Code: 57 4d 89 c7 41 56 49 89 ce 41 55 49 89 d5 41 54 49
 89 fc 53 48 83 ec 18 48 8b 87 a0 64 00 00 48 89 75 d0 48 c7 c6 e0 41 30
 c2 <48> 8b 38 48 8b 9f 68 06 00 00 e8 8d d7 fd ff 31 c0 48 81 c3 e0 02
 RSP: 0018:ffffd0f3c2bd7608 EFLAGS: 00010292
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffd0f3c2bd7668
 RDX: ffffd0f3c2bd7664 RSI: ffffffffc23041e0 RDI: ffff8b32494b8000
 RBP: ffffd0f3c2bd7648 R08: ffffd0f3c2bd766c R09: ffffd0f3c2bd7760
 R10: ffffd0f3c2bd7820 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b32494b8000
 R13: ffffd0f3c2bd7664 R14: ffffd0f3c2bd7668 R15: ffffd0f3c2bd766c
 FS:  000071f631b68700(0000) GS:ffff8b399f114000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001b8105000 CR4: 0000000000f50ef0
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dm_crtc_get_scanoutpos+0xd7/0x180 [amdgpu]
 amdgpu_display_get_crtc_scanoutpos+0x86/0x1c0 [amdgpu]
 ? __pfx_amdgpu_crtc_get_scanout_position+0x10/0x10[amdgpu]
 amdgpu_crtc_get_scanout_position+0x27/0x50 [amdgpu]
 drm_crtc_vblank_helper_get_vblank_timestamp_internal+0xf7/0x400
 drm_crtc_vblank_helper_get_vblank_timestamp+0x1c/0x30
 drm_crtc_get_last_vbltimestamp+0x55/0x90
 drm_crtc_next_vblank_start+0x45/0xa0
 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_fences+0x81/0x1f0
 ...

Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Aurabindo Pillai <aurabindo.pillai@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
(cherry picked from commit 621e55f)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 8, 2025
… 'T'

When perf report with annotation for a symbol, press 's' and 'T', then exit
the annotate browser. Once annotate the same symbol, the annotate browser
will crash.

The browser.arch was required to be correctly updated when data type
feature was enabled by 'T'. Usually it was initialized by symbol__annotate2
function. If a symbol has already been correctly annotated at the first
time, it should not call the symbol__annotate2 function again, thus the
browser.arch will not get initialized. Then at the second time to show the
annotate browser, the data type needs to be displayed but the browser.arch
is empty.

Stack trace as below:

Perf: Segmentation fault
-------- backtrace --------
    #0 0x55d365 in ui__signal_backtrace setup.c:0
    #1 0x7f5ff1a3e930 in __restore_rt libc.so.6[3e930]
    #2 0x570f08 in arch__is perf[570f08]
    #3 0x562186 in annotate_get_insn_location perf[562186]
    #4 0x562626 in __hist_entry__get_data_type annotate.c:0
    #5 0x56476d in annotation_line__write perf[56476d]
    #6 0x54e2db in annotate_browser__write annotate.c:0
    #7 0x54d061 in ui_browser__list_head_refresh perf[54d061]
    #8 0x54dc9e in annotate_browser__refresh annotate.c:0
    #9 0x54c03d in __ui_browser__refresh browser.c:0
    #10 0x54ccf8 in ui_browser__run perf[54ccf8]
    #11 0x54eb92 in __hist_entry__tui_annotate perf[54eb92]
    #12 0x552293 in do_annotate hists.c:0
    #13 0x55941c in evsel__hists_browse hists.c:0
    #14 0x55b00f in evlist__tui_browse_hists perf[55b00f]
    #15 0x42ff02 in cmd_report perf[42ff02]
    #16 0x494008 in run_builtin perf.c:0
    #17 0x494305 in handle_internal_command perf.c:0
    #18 0x410547 in main perf[410547]
    #19 0x7f5ff1a295d0 in __libc_start_call_main libc.so.6[295d0]
    #20 0x7f5ff1a29680 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 libc.so.6[29680]
    #21 0x410b75 in _start perf[410b75]

Fixes: 1d4374a ("perf annotate: Add 'T' hot key to toggle data type display")
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tianyou Li <tianyou.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 8, 2025
When using perf record with the `--overwrite` option, a segmentation fault
occurs if an event fails to open. For example:

  perf record -e cycles-ct -F 1000 -a --overwrite
  Error:
  cycles-ct:H: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat'
  perf: Segmentation fault
      #0 0x6466b6 in dump_stack debug.c:366
      #1 0x646729 in sighandler_dump_stack debug.c:378
      #2 0x453fd1 in sigsegv_handler builtin-record.c:722
      #3 0x7f8454e65090 in __restore_rt libc-2.32.so[54090]
      #4 0x6c5671 in __perf_event__synthesize_id_index synthetic-events.c:1862
      #5 0x6c5ac0 in perf_event__synthesize_id_index synthetic-events.c:1943
      #6 0x458090 in record__synthesize builtin-record.c:2075
      #7 0x45a85a in __cmd_record builtin-record.c:2888
      #8 0x45deb6 in cmd_record builtin-record.c:4374
      #9 0x4e5e33 in run_builtin perf.c:349
      #10 0x4e60bf in handle_internal_command perf.c:401
      #11 0x4e6215 in run_argv perf.c:448
      #12 0x4e653a in main perf.c:555
      #13 0x7f8454e4fa72 in __libc_start_main libc-2.32.so[3ea72]
      #14 0x43a3ee in _start ??:0

The --overwrite option implies --tail-synthesize, which collects non-sample
events reflecting the system status when recording finishes. However, when
evsel opening fails (e.g., unsupported event 'cycles-ct'), session->evlist
is not initialized and remains NULL. The code unconditionally calls
record__synthesize() in the error path, which iterates through the NULL
evlist pointer and causes a segfault.

To fix it, move the record__synthesize() call inside the error check block, so
it's only called when there was no error during recording, ensuring that evlist
is properly initialized.

Fixes: 4ea648a ("perf record: Add --tail-synthesize option")
Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 8, 2025
When interrupting perf stat in repeat mode with a signal the signal is
passed to the child process but the repeat doesn't terminate:
```
$ perf stat -v --null --repeat 10 sleep 1
Control descriptor is not initialized
[ perf stat: executing run #1 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #2 ... ]
^Csleep: Interrupt
[ perf stat: executing run #3 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #4 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #5 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #6 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #7 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #8 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #9 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #10 ... ]

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1' (10 runs):

            0.9500 +- 0.0512 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  5.39% )

0.01user 0.02system 0:09.53elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 18940maxresident)k
29944inputs+0outputs (0major+2629minor)pagefaults 0swaps
```

Terminate the repeated run and give a reasonable exit value:
```
$ perf stat -v --null --repeat 10 sleep 1
Control descriptor is not initialized
[ perf stat: executing run #1 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #2 ... ]
[ perf stat: executing run #3 ... ]
^Csleep: Interrupt

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1' (10 runs):

             0.680 +- 0.321 seconds time elapsed  ( +- 47.16% )

Command exited with non-zero status 130
0.00user 0.01system 0:02.05elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 70688maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+5002minor)pagefaults 0swaps
```

Note, this also changes the exit value for non-repeat runs when
interrupted by a signal.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aS5wjmbAM9ka3M2g@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 18, 2025
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114091

commit bed18f0
Author: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:17:17 +0000

ACPICA commit 8829e70e1360c81e7a5a901b5d4f48330e021ea5

I'm Seunghun Han, and I work for National Security Research Institute of
South Korea.

I have been doing a research on ACPI and found an ACPI cache leak in ACPI
early abort cases.

Boot log of ACPI cache leak is as follows:
[    0.352414] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
[    0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
[    0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
[    0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
[    0.356028] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
[    0.356799] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)
[    0.360215] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-State: Slab cache still has objects
[    0.360648] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W
4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #10
[    0.361273] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS
virtual_box 12/01/2006
[    0.361873] Call Trace:
[    0.362243]  ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81
[    0.362591]  ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0
[    0.362944]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.363296]  ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10
[    0.363646]  ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x6d/0x7b
[    0.364000]  ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14
[    0.364000]  ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f
[    0.364000]  ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80
[    0.364000]  ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f
[    0.364000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.364000]  ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0
[    0.364000]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a
[    0.364000]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0
[    0.364000]  ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100
[    0.364000]  ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

I analyzed this memory leak in detail. I found that “Acpi-State” cache and
“Acpi-Parse” cache were merged because the size of cache objects was same
slab cache size.

I finally found “Acpi-Parse” cache and “Acpi-parse_ext” cache were leaked
using SLAB_NEVER_MERGE flag in kmem_cache_create() function.

Real ACPI cache leak point is as follows:
[    0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
[    0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
[    0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
[    0.361043] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
[    0.364016] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
[    0.365061] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)
[    0.368174] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-Parse: Slab cache still has objects
[    0.369332] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W
4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #8
[    0.371256] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS
virtual_box 12/01/2006
[    0.372000] Call Trace:
[    0.372000]  ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81
[    0.372000]  ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x56/0x7b
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f
[    0.372000]  ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80
[    0.372000]  ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.372000]  ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0
[    0.372000]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a
[    0.372000]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0
[    0.372000]  ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100
[    0.372000]  ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
[    0.388039] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-parse_ext: Slab cache still has objects
[    0.389063] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W
4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #8
[    0.390557] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS
virtual_box 12/01/2006
[    0.392000] Call Trace:
[    0.392000]  ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81
[    0.392000]  ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x6d/0x7b
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f
[    0.392000]  ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80
[    0.392000]  ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.392000]  ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0
[    0.392000]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a
[    0.392000]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0
[    0.392000]  ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100
[    0.392000]  ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

When early abort is occurred due to invalid ACPI information, Linux kernel
terminates ACPI by calling acpi_terminate() function. The function calls
acpi_ut_delete_caches() function to delete local caches (acpi_gbl_namespace_
cache, state_cache, operand_cache, ps_node_cache, ps_node_ext_cache).

But the deletion codes in acpi_ut_delete_caches() function only delete
slab caches using kmem_cache_destroy() function, therefore the cache
objects should be flushed before acpi_ut_delete_caches() function.

"Acpi-Parse" cache and "Acpi-ParseExt" cache are used in an AML parse
function, acpi_ps_parse_loop(). The function should complete all ops
using acpi_ps_complete_final_op() when an error occurs due to invalid
AML codes.
However, the current implementation of acpi_ps_complete_final_op() does not
complete all ops when it meets some errors and this cause cache leak.

This cache leak has a security threat because an old kernel (<= 4.9) shows
memory locations of kernel functions in stack dump. Some malicious users
could use this information to neutralize kernel ASLR.

To fix ACPI cache leak for enhancing security, I made a patch to complete all
ops unconditionally for acpi_ps_complete_final_op() function.

I hope that this patch improves the security of Linux kernel.

Thank you.

Link: acpica/acpica@8829e70e
Signed-off-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2363774.ElGaqSPkdT@rjwysocki.net
Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@redhat.com>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 18, 2025
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-114091

commit eedf3e3
Author: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 23:05:42 +0000

ACPICA commit 1c28da2242783579d59767617121035dafba18c3

This was originally done in NetBSD:
NetBSD/src@b69d1ac
and is the correct alternative to the smattering of `memcpy`s I
previously contributed to this repository.

This also sidesteps the newly strict checks added in UBSAN:
llvm/llvm-project@7926744

Before this change we see the following UBSAN stack trace in Fuchsia:

  #0    0x000021afcfdeca5e in acpi_rs_get_address_common(struct acpi_resource*, union aml_resource*) ../../third_party/acpica/source/components/resources/rsaddr.c:329 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x6aca5e
  #1.2  0x000021982bc4af3c in ubsan_get_stack_trace() compiler-rt/lib/ubsan/ubsan_diag.cpp:41 <libclang_rt.asan.so>+0x41f3c
  #1.1  0x000021982bc4af3c in maybe_print_stack_trace() compiler-rt/lib/ubsan/ubsan_diag.cpp:51 <libclang_rt.asan.so>+0x41f3c
  #1    0x000021982bc4af3c in ~scoped_report() compiler-rt/lib/ubsan/ubsan_diag.cpp:395 <libclang_rt.asan.so>+0x41f3c
  #2    0x000021982bc4bb6f in handletype_mismatch_impl() compiler-rt/lib/ubsan/ubsan_handlers.cpp:137 <libclang_rt.asan.so>+0x42b6f
  #3    0x000021982bc4b723 in __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch_v1 compiler-rt/lib/ubsan/ubsan_handlers.cpp:142 <libclang_rt.asan.so>+0x42723
  #4    0x000021afcfdeca5e in acpi_rs_get_address_common(struct acpi_resource*, union aml_resource*) ../../third_party/acpica/source/components/resources/rsaddr.c:329 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x6aca5e
  #5    0x000021afcfdf2089 in acpi_rs_convert_aml_to_resource(struct acpi_resource*, union aml_resource*, struct acpi_rsconvert_info*) ../../third_party/acpica/source/components/resources/rsmisc.c:355 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x6b2089
  #6    0x000021afcfded169 in acpi_rs_convert_aml_to_resources(u8*, u32, u32, u8, void**) ../../third_party/acpica/source/components/resources/rslist.c:137 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x6ad169
  #7    0x000021afcfe2d24a in acpi_ut_walk_aml_resources(struct acpi_walk_state*, u8*, acpi_size, acpi_walk_aml_callback, void**) ../../third_party/acpica/source/components/utilities/utresrc.c:237 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x6ed24a
  #8    0x000021afcfde66b7 in acpi_rs_create_resource_list(union acpi_operand_object*, struct acpi_buffer*) ../../third_party/acpica/source/components/resources/rscreate.c:199 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x6a66b7
  #9    0x000021afcfdf6979 in acpi_rs_get_method_data(acpi_handle, const char*, struct acpi_buffer*) ../../third_party/acpica/source/components/resources/rsutils.c:770 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x6b6979
  #10   0x000021afcfdf708f in acpi_walk_resources(acpi_handle, char*, acpi_walk_resource_callback, void*) ../../third_party/acpica/source/components/resources/rsxface.c:731 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x6b708f
  #11   0x000021afcfa95dcf in acpi::acpi_impl::walk_resources(acpi::acpi_impl*, acpi_handle, const char*, acpi::Acpi::resources_callable) ../../src/devices/board/lib/acpi/acpi-impl.cc:41 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x355dcf
  #12   0x000021afcfaa8278 in acpi::device_builder::gather_resources(acpi::device_builder*, acpi::Acpi*, fidl::any_arena&, acpi::Manager*, acpi::device_builder::gather_resources_callback) ../../src/devices/board/lib/acpi/device-builder.cc:84 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x368278
  #13   0x000021afcfbddb87 in acpi::Manager::configure_discovered_devices(acpi::Manager*) ../../src/devices/board/lib/acpi/manager.cc:75 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x49db87
  #14   0x000021afcf99091d in publish_acpi_devices(acpi::Manager*, zx_device_t*, zx_device_t*) ../../src/devices/board/drivers/x86/acpi-nswalk.cc:95 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x25091d
  #15   0x000021afcf9c1d4e in x86::X86::do_init(x86::X86*) ../../src/devices/board/drivers/x86/x86.cc:60 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x281d4e
  #16   0x000021afcf9e33ad in λ(x86::X86::ddk_init::(anon class)*) ../../src/devices/board/drivers/x86/x86.cc:77 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x2a33ad
  #17   0x000021afcf9e313e in fit::internal::target<(lambda at../../src/devices/board/drivers/x86/x86.cc:76:19), false, false, std::__2::allocator<std::byte>, void>::invoke(void*) ../../sdk/lib/fit/include/lib/fit/internal/function.h:183 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x2a313e
  #18   0x000021afcfbab4c7 in fit::internal::function_base<16UL, false, void(), std::__2::allocator<std::byte>>::invoke(const fit::internal::function_base<16UL, false, void (), std::__2::allocator<std::byte> >*) ../../sdk/lib/fit/include/lib/fit/internal/function.h:522 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x46b4c7
  #19   0x000021afcfbab342 in fit::function_impl<16UL, false, void(), std::__2::allocator<std::byte>>::operator()(const fit::function_impl<16UL, false, void (), std::__2::allocator<std::byte> >*) ../../sdk/lib/fit/include/lib/fit/function.h:315 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x46b342
  #20   0x000021afcfcd98c3 in async::internal::retained_task::Handler(async_dispatcher_t*, async_task_t*, zx_status_t) ../../sdk/lib/async/task.cc:24 <platform-bus-x86.so>+0x5998c3
  #21   0x00002290f9924616 in λ(const driver_runtime::Dispatcher::post_task::(anon class)*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request> >, zx_status_t) ../../src/devices/bin/driver_runtime/dispatcher.cc:789 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0x10a616
  #22   0x00002290f9924323 in fit::internal::target<(lambda at../../src/devices/bin/driver_runtime/dispatcher.cc:788:7), true, false, std::__2::allocator<std::byte>, void, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request>>, int>::invoke(void*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request> >, int) ../../sdk/lib/fit/include/lib/fit/internal/function.h:128 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0x10a323
  #23   0x00002290f9904b76 in fit::internal::function_base<24UL, true, void(std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request>>, int), std::__2::allocator<std::byte>>::invoke(const fit::internal::function_base<24UL, true, void (std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request> >, int), std::__2::allocator<std::byte> >*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request> >, int) ../../sdk/lib/fit/include/lib/fit/internal/function.h:522 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xeab76
  #24   0x00002290f9904831 in fit::callback_impl<24UL, true, void(std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request>>, int), std::__2::allocator<std::byte>>::operator()(fit::callback_impl<24UL, true, void (std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request> >, int), std::__2::allocator<std::byte> >*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request> >, int) ../../sdk/lib/fit/include/lib/fit/function.h:471 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xea831
  #25   0x00002290f98d5adc in driver_runtime::callback_request::Call(driver_runtime::callback_request*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request> >, zx_status_t) ../../src/devices/bin/driver_runtime/callback_request.h:74 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xbbadc
  #26   0x00002290f98e1e58 in driver_runtime::Dispatcher::dispatch_callback(driver_runtime::Dispatcher*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::callback_request, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::callback_request> >) ../../src/devices/bin/driver_runtime/dispatcher.cc:1248 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xc7e58
  #27   0x00002290f98e4159 in driver_runtime::Dispatcher::dispatch_callbacks(driver_runtime::Dispatcher*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter> >, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>) ../../src/devices/bin/driver_runtime/dispatcher.cc:1308 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xca159
  #28   0x00002290f9918414 in λ(const driver_runtime::Dispatcher::create_with_adder::(anon class)*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter> >, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>) ../../src/devices/bin/driver_runtime/dispatcher.cc:353 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xfe414
  #29   0x00002290f991812d in fit::internal::target<(lambda at../../src/devices/bin/driver_runtime/dispatcher.cc:351:7), true, false, std::__2::allocator<std::byte>, void, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter>>, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>>::invoke(void*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter> >, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>) ../../sdk/lib/fit/include/lib/fit/internal/function.h:128 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xfe12d
  #30   0x00002290f9906fc7 in fit::internal::function_base<8UL, true, void(std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter>>, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>), std::__2::allocator<std::byte>>::invoke(const fit::internal::function_base<8UL, true, void (std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter> >, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>), std::__2::allocator<std::byte> >*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter> >, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>) ../../sdk/lib/fit/include/lib/fit/internal/function.h:522 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xecfc7
  #31   0x00002290f9906c66 in fit::function_impl<8UL, true, void(std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter>>, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>), std::__2::allocator<std::byte>>::operator()(const fit::function_impl<8UL, true, void (std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter> >, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>), std::__2::allocator<std::byte> >*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter> >, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>) ../../sdk/lib/fit/include/lib/fit/function.h:315 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xecc66
  #32   0x00002290f98e73d9 in driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter::invoke_callback(driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter*, std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter> >, fbl::ref_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher>) ../../src/devices/bin/driver_runtime/dispatcher.h:543 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xcd3d9
  #33   0x00002290f98e700d in driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter::handle_event(std::__2::unique_ptr<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter, std::__2::default_delete<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter> >, async_dispatcher_t*, async::wait_base*, zx_status_t, zx_packet_signal_t const*) ../../src/devices/bin/driver_runtime/dispatcher.cc:1442 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xcd00d
  #34   0x00002290f9918983 in async_loop_owned_event_handler<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter>::handle_event(async_loop_owned_event_handler<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter>*, async_dispatcher_t*, async::wait_base*, zx_status_t, zx_packet_signal_t const*) ../../src/devices/bin/driver_runtime/async_loop_owned_event_handler.h:59 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xfe983
  #35   0x00002290f9918b9e in async::wait_method<async_loop_owned_event_handler<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter>, &async_loop_owned_event_handler<driver_runtime::Dispatcher::event_waiter>::handle_event>::call_handler(async_dispatcher_t*, async_wait_t*, zx_status_t, zx_packet_signal_t const*) ../../sdk/lib/async/include/lib/async/cpp/wait.h:201 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0xfeb9e
  #36   0x00002290f99bf509 in async_loop_dispatch_wait(async_loop_t*, async_wait_t*, zx_status_t, zx_packet_signal_t const*) ../../sdk/lib/async-loop/loop.c:394 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0x1a5509
  #37   0x00002290f99b9958 in async_loop_run_once(async_loop_t*, zx_time_t) ../../sdk/lib/async-loop/loop.c:343 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0x19f958
  #38   0x00002290f99b9247 in async_loop_run(async_loop_t*, zx_time_t, _Bool) ../../sdk/lib/async-loop/loop.c:301 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0x19f247
  #39   0x00002290f99ba962 in async_loop_run_thread(void*) ../../sdk/lib/async-loop/loop.c:860 <libdriver_runtime.so>+0x1a0962
  #40   0x000041afd176ef30 in start_c11(void*) ../../zircon/third_party/ulib/musl/pthread/pthread_create.c:63 <libc.so>+0x84f30
  #41   0x000041afd18a448d in thread_trampoline(uintptr_t, uintptr_t) ../../zircon/system/ulib/runtime/thread.cc:100 <libc.so>+0x1ba48d

Link: acpica/acpica@1c28da22
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4664267.LvFx2qVVIh@rjwysocki.net
Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
[ rjw: Pick up the tag from Tamir ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@redhat.com>
bmastbergen pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 18, 2025
[ Upstream commit 163e5f2 ]

When using perf record with the `--overwrite` option, a segmentation fault
occurs if an event fails to open. For example:

  perf record -e cycles-ct -F 1000 -a --overwrite
  Error:
  cycles-ct:H: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat'
  perf: Segmentation fault
      #0 0x6466b6 in dump_stack debug.c:366
      #1 0x646729 in sighandler_dump_stack debug.c:378
      #2 0x453fd1 in sigsegv_handler builtin-record.c:722
      #3 0x7f8454e65090 in __restore_rt libc-2.32.so[54090]
      #4 0x6c5671 in __perf_event__synthesize_id_index synthetic-events.c:1862
      #5 0x6c5ac0 in perf_event__synthesize_id_index synthetic-events.c:1943
      #6 0x458090 in record__synthesize builtin-record.c:2075
      #7 0x45a85a in __cmd_record builtin-record.c:2888
      #8 0x45deb6 in cmd_record builtin-record.c:4374
      #9 0x4e5e33 in run_builtin perf.c:349
      #10 0x4e60bf in handle_internal_command perf.c:401
      #11 0x4e6215 in run_argv perf.c:448
      #12 0x4e653a in main perf.c:555
      #13 0x7f8454e4fa72 in __libc_start_main libc-2.32.so[3ea72]
      #14 0x43a3ee in _start ??:0

The --overwrite option implies --tail-synthesize, which collects non-sample
events reflecting the system status when recording finishes. However, when
evsel opening fails (e.g., unsupported event 'cycles-ct'), session->evlist
is not initialized and remains NULL. The code unconditionally calls
record__synthesize() in the error path, which iterates through the NULL
evlist pointer and causes a segfault.

To fix it, move the record__synthesize() call inside the error check block, so
it's only called when there was no error during recording, ensuring that evlist
is properly initialized.

Fixes: 4ea648a ("perf record: Add --tail-synthesize option")
Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
github-actions bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 18, 2025
[ Upstream commit 163e5f2 ]

When using perf record with the `--overwrite` option, a segmentation fault
occurs if an event fails to open. For example:

  perf record -e cycles-ct -F 1000 -a --overwrite
  Error:
  cycles-ct:H: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat'
  perf: Segmentation fault
      #0 0x6466b6 in dump_stack debug.c:366
      #1 0x646729 in sighandler_dump_stack debug.c:378
      #2 0x453fd1 in sigsegv_handler builtin-record.c:722
      #3 0x7f8454e65090 in __restore_rt libc-2.32.so[54090]
      #4 0x6c5671 in __perf_event__synthesize_id_index synthetic-events.c:1862
      #5 0x6c5ac0 in perf_event__synthesize_id_index synthetic-events.c:1943
      #6 0x458090 in record__synthesize builtin-record.c:2075
      #7 0x45a85a in __cmd_record builtin-record.c:2888
      #8 0x45deb6 in cmd_record builtin-record.c:4374
      #9 0x4e5e33 in run_builtin perf.c:349
      #10 0x4e60bf in handle_internal_command perf.c:401
      #11 0x4e6215 in run_argv perf.c:448
      #12 0x4e653a in main perf.c:555
      #13 0x7f8454e4fa72 in __libc_start_main libc-2.32.so[3ea72]
      #14 0x43a3ee in _start ??:0

The --overwrite option implies --tail-synthesize, which collects non-sample
events reflecting the system status when recording finishes. However, when
evsel opening fails (e.g., unsupported event 'cycles-ct'), session->evlist
is not initialized and remains NULL. The code unconditionally calls
record__synthesize() in the error path, which iterates through the NULL
evlist pointer and causes a segfault.

To fix it, move the record__synthesize() call inside the error check block, so
it's only called when there was no error during recording, ensuring that evlist
is properly initialized.

Fixes: 4ea648a ("perf record: Add --tail-synthesize option")
Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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