CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49607
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/core: Fix data race between perf_event_set_output() and perf_mmap_close()
Yang Jihing reported a race between perf_event_set_output() and
perf_mmap_close():
CPU1 CPU2
perf_mmap_close(e2)
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&e2->rb->mmap_count)) // 1 - > 0
detach_rest = true
ioctl(e1, IOC_SET_OUTPUT, e2)
perf_event_set_output(e1, e2)
...
list_for_each_entry_rcu(e, &e2->rb->event_list, rb_entry)
ring_buffer_attach(e, NULL);
// e1 isn't yet added and
// therefore not detached
ring_buffer_attach(e1, e2->rb)
list_add_rcu(&e1->rb_entry,
&e2->rb->event_list)
After this; e1 is attached to an unmapped rb and a subsequent
perf_mmap() will loop forever more:
again:
mutex_lock(&e->mmap_mutex);
if (event->rb) {
...
if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&e->rb->mmap_count)) {
...
mutex_unlock(&e->mmap_mutex);
goto again;
}
}
The loop in perf_mmap_close() holds e2->mmap_mutex, while the attach
in perf_event_set_output() holds e1->mmap_mutex. As such there is no
serialization to avoid this race.
Change perf_event_set_output() to take both e1->mmap_mutex and
e2->mmap_mutex to alleviate that problem. Additionally, have the loop
in perf_mmap() detach the rb directly, this avoids having to wait for
the concurrent perf_mmap_close() to get around to doing it to make
progress.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.2.49 < 3.3)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.4.52 < 3.5)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.9.8 < 4.9.325)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.290)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.254)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.208)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.134)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.58)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.15)
• linux linux kernel 5.19
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17f5417194136517ee9bbd6511249e5310e5617c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bbd868099287ff9027db59029b502fcfa2202a0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43128b3eee337824158f34da6648163d2f2fb937 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68e3c69803dada336893640110cb87221bb01dcf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98c3c8fd0d4c560e0f8335b79c407bbf7fc9462c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9391ff7a7c5f113d6f2bf6621d49110950de49c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da3c256e2d0ebc87c7db0c605c9692b6f1722074 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f836f9ac95df15f1e0af4beb0ec20021e8c91998 Patch