From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@amd.com>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 2/3] perf header: Fix potential memory corruption in cpu_cache_level__read
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:37:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260910173715.2996571-2-irogers@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260910173715.2996571-1-irogers@google.com>
strim may advance the pointer assigned to cache->size which causes
later frees to crash. Fix by performing the strim and then memmove-ing
the potentially shifted string back over the original string. The bug
was introduced by the transition from rtrim to strim, as rtrim
wouldn't move on the left.
Fixes: 13c230ab6e56 ("perf tools: Ditch rtrim(), use strim() from tools/lib")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.1-pro
---
| 18 +++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index bdd79d7542ef..78b16a098148 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -1267,7 +1267,11 @@ static int cpu_cache_level__read(struct cpu_cache_level *cache, u32 cpu, u16 lev
return -1;
cache->type[len] = 0;
- cache->type = strim(cache->type);
+ {
+ char *trimmed = strim(cache->type);
+
+ memmove(cache->type, trimmed, strlen(trimmed) + 1);
+ }
scnprintf(file, PATH_MAX, "%s/size", path);
if (sysfs__read_str(file, &cache->size, &len)) {
@@ -1276,7 +1280,11 @@ static int cpu_cache_level__read(struct cpu_cache_level *cache, u32 cpu, u16 lev
}
cache->size[len] = 0;
- cache->size = strim(cache->size);
+ {
+ char *trimmed = strim(cache->size);
+
+ memmove(cache->size, trimmed, strlen(trimmed) + 1);
+ }
scnprintf(file, PATH_MAX, "%s/shared_cpu_list", path);
if (sysfs__read_str(file, &cache->map, &len)) {
@@ -1286,7 +1294,11 @@ static int cpu_cache_level__read(struct cpu_cache_level *cache, u32 cpu, u16 lev
}
cache->map[len] = 0;
- cache->map = strim(cache->map);
+ {
+ char *trimmed = strim(cache->map);
+
+ memmove(cache->map, trimmed, strlen(trimmed) + 1);
+ }
return 0;
}
--
2.55.0.1007.g17ff1f9808-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-10 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-10 17:37 [PATCH v1 1/3] perf header: Fix HEADER_COMPRESSED validation for comp_mmap_len Ian Rogers
2026-09-10 17:37 ` Ian Rogers [this message]
2026-09-10 17:37 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] perf header: Transition WARN macros to debug.h equivalents Ian Rogers
2026-09-10 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] perf test x86: Fix missing __msan_unpoison Ian Rogers
2026-09-10 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] perf header: Fix HEADER_COMPRESSED validation for comp_mmap_len Ian Rogers
2026-09-10 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] perf header: Fix potential memory corruption in cpu_cache_level__read Ian Rogers
2026-09-10 21:12 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] perf header: Fix memory corruption and unnecessary warning Ian Rogers
2026-09-10 21:12 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] perf header: Fix HEADER_COMPRESSED validation for comp_mmap_len Ian Rogers
2026-09-10 21:12 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] perf header: Fix potential memory corruption in cpu_cache_level__read Ian Rogers
2026-09-10 21:12 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] perf header: Transition WARN macros to debug.h equivalents Ian Rogers
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