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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2026-04-11 01:09:01 +0300
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2026-04-14 09:21:53 +0300
commit110a661708a6a90997442f02f261e2043624a1c8 (patch)
tree5258619413efb2e119df78dabd6b876d5ebe10a4 /tools
parent6830e20c92e7388ae4834a3574a0d3d90500c4c1 (diff)
downloadlinux-110a661708a6a90997442f02f261e2043624a1c8.tar.xz
perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CACHE
Add upper bound check on cache entry count in process_cache() to harden against malformed perf.data files (max 32768). Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/header.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 993e20debd5c..749a522fe057 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
#include <event-parse.h>
#endif
+#define MAX_CACHE_ENTRIES 32768
#define MAX_GROUP_DESC 32768
#define MAX_NUMA_NODES 4096
#define MAX_PMU_MAPPINGS 4096
@@ -3243,6 +3244,18 @@ static int process_cache(struct feat_fd *ff, void *data __maybe_unused)
if (do_read_u32(ff, &cnt))
return -1;
+ if (cnt > MAX_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
+ pr_err("Invalid HEADER_CACHE: cnt (%u) > %u\n",
+ cnt, MAX_CACHE_ENTRIES);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ if (ff->size < 2 * sizeof(u32) + cnt * 7 * sizeof(u32)) {
+ pr_err("Invalid HEADER_CACHE: section too small (%zu) for %u entries\n",
+ ff->size, cnt);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
caches = calloc(cnt, sizeof(*caches));
if (!caches)
return -1;