From: Gabriel Shahrouzi <gshahrouzi@gmail.com> stable inclusion from stable-v6.6.89 commit 1fe9b92eede32574dbe05b5bdb6ad666b350bed0 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/src-openeuler/kernel/issues/IC6M1S CVE: CVE-2025-37878 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- [ Upstream commit 0ba3a4ab76fd3367b9cb680cad70182c896c795c ] Move the get_ctx(child_ctx) call and the child_event->ctx assignment to occur immediately after the child event is allocated. Ensure that child_event->ctx is non-NULL before any subsequent error path within inherit_event calls free_event(), satisfying the assumptions of the cleanup code. Details: There's no clear Fixes tag, because this bug is a side-effect of multiple interacting commits over time (up to 15 years old), not a single regression. The code initially incremented refcount then assigned context immediately after the child_event was created. Later, an early validity check for child_event was added before the refcount/assignment. Even later, a WARN_ON_ONCE() cleanup check was added, assuming event->ctx is valid if the pmu_ctx is valid. The problem is that the WARN_ON_ONCE() could trigger after the initial check passed but before child_event->ctx was assigned, violating its precondition. The solution is to assign child_event->ctx right after its initial validation. This ensures the context exists for any subsequent checks or cleanup routines, resolving the WARN_ON_ONCE(). To resolve it, defer the refcount update and child_event->ctx assignment directly after child_event->pmu_ctx is set but before checking if the parent event is orphaned. The cleanup routine depends on event->pmu_ctx being non-NULL before it verifies event->ctx is non-NULL. This also maintains the author's original intent of passing in child_ctx to find_get_pmu_context before its refcount/assignment. [ mingo: Expanded the changelog from another email by Gabriel Shahrouzi. ] Reported-by: syzbot+ff3aa851d46ab82953a3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Gabriel Shahrouzi <gshahrouzi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250405203036.582721-1-gshahrouzi@gmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ff3aa851d46ab82953a3 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun2@huawei.com> --- kernel/events/core.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 8b85a644fff1..d62ee4ac4c18 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -13376,6 +13376,9 @@ inherit_event(struct perf_event *parent_event, if (IS_ERR(child_event)) return child_event; + get_ctx(child_ctx); + child_event->ctx = child_ctx; + pmu_ctx = find_get_pmu_context(child_event->pmu, child_ctx, child_event); if (IS_ERR(pmu_ctx)) { free_event(child_event); @@ -13398,8 +13401,6 @@ inherit_event(struct perf_event *parent_event, return NULL; } - get_ctx(child_ctx); - /* * Make the child state follow the state of the parent event, * not its attr.disabled bit. We hold the parent's mutex, @@ -13420,7 +13421,6 @@ inherit_event(struct perf_event *parent_event, local64_set(&hwc->period_left, sample_period); } - child_event->ctx = child_ctx; child_event->overflow_handler = parent_event->overflow_handler; child_event->overflow_handler_context = parent_event->overflow_handler_context; -- 2.34.1