perf/core: Add RCU read lock protection to perf_iterate_ctx() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-21889
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 10 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Add RCU read lock protection to perf_iterate_ctx() The perf_iterate_ctx() function performs RCU list traversal but currently lacks RCU read lock protection. This causes lockdep warnings when running perf probe with unshare(1) under CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST=y: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage kernel/events/core.c:8168 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!! Call Trace: lockdep_rcu_suspicious ? perf_event_addr_filters_apply perf_iterate_ctx perf_event_exec begin_new_exec ? load_elf_phdrs load_elf_binary ? lock_acquire ? find_held_lock ? bprm_execve bprm_execve do_execveat_common.isra.0 __x64_sys_execve do_syscall_64 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe This protection was previously present but was removed in commit bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling"). Add back the necessary rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pair around perf_iterate_ctx() call in perf_event_exec(). [ mingo: Use scoped_guard() as suggested by Peter ]

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b < f390c2eea571945f357a2d3b9fcb1c015767132e ; affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b < a2475ccad6120546ea45dbcd6cd1f74dc565ef6b ; affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b < dd536566dda9a551fc2a2acfab5313a5bb13ed02 ; affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b < 0fe8813baf4b2e865d3b2c735ce1a15b86002c74
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.2 ; unaffected 0 < 6.2 ; unaffected 6.6.81 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.18 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.13.6 ≤ 6.13.* ; unaffected 6.14 ≤ *

Sources

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