Vulnerability CVE-2022-48713
Published: 2024-06-20

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

perf/x86/intel/pt: Fix crash with stop filters in single-range mode

Add a check for !buf->single before calling pt_buffer_region_size in a
place where a missing check can cause a kernel crash.

Fixes a bug introduced by commit 670638477aed ("perf/x86/intel/pt:
Opportunistically use single range output mode"), which added a
support for PT single-range output mode. Since that commit if a PT
stop filter range is hit while tracing, the kernel will crash because
of a null pointer dereference in pt_handle_status due to calling
pt_buffer_region_size without a ToPA configured.

The commit which introduced single-range mode guarded almost all uses of
the ToPA buffer variables with checks of the buf->single variable, but
missed the case where tracing was stopped by the PT hardware, which
happens when execution hits a configured stop filter.

Tested that hitting a stop filter while PT recording successfully
records a trace with this patch but crashes without this patch.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/456f041e035913fcedb275aff6f8a71dfebcd394
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e83d941fd3445f660d2f43647c580a320cc384f6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/feffb6ae2c80b9a8206450cdef90f5943baced99
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d9093457b243061a9bba23543c38726e864a643
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