vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-56706: kernel: s390/cpum_sf: Fix and protect memory allocation of SDBs with mutex

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 28, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 31, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/cpum_sf: Fix and protect memory allocation of SDBs with mutex

Reservation of the PMU hardware is done at first event creation
and is protected by a pair of mutex_lock() and mutex_unlock().
After reservation of the PMU hardware the memory
required for the PMUs the event is to be installed on is
allocated by allocate_buffers() and alloc_sampling_buffer().
This done outside of the mutex protection.
Without mutex protection two or more concurrent invocations of
perf_event_init() may run in parallel.
This can lead to allocation of Sample Data Blocks (SDBs)
multiple times for the same PMU.
Prevent this and protect memory allocation of SDBs by
mutex.

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