This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf: Prevent passing zero nr_pages to rb_alloc_aux() to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-prevent-passing-zero-nr_pages-to-rb_alloc_aux.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit afd926d5f55df3e7030326173bff58faa8ceb507 Author: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jun 24 23:10:59 2024 +0300 perf: Prevent passing zero nr_pages to rb_alloc_aux() [ Upstream commit dbc48c8f41c208082cfa95e973560134489e3309 ] nr_pages is unsigned long but gets passed to rb_alloc_aux() as an int, and is stored as an int. Only power-of-2 values are accepted, so if nr_pages is a 64_bit value, it will be passed to rb_alloc_aux() as zero. That is not ideal because: 1. the value is incorrect 2. rb_alloc_aux() is at risk of misbehaving, although it manages to return -ENOMEM in that case, it is a result of passing zero to get_order() even though the get_order() result is documented to be undefined in that case. Fix by simply validating the maximum supported value in the first place. Use -ENOMEM error code for consistency with the current error code that is returned in that case. Fixes: 45bfb2e50471 ("perf: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streams") Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624201101.60186-6-adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 80d9c8fcc30a6..b689b35473a38 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -6401,6 +6401,8 @@ static int perf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma) return -EINVAL; nr_pages = vma_size / PAGE_SIZE; + if (nr_pages > INT_MAX) + return -ENOMEM; mutex_lock(&event->mmap_mutex); ret = -EINVAL;