CVE-2025-38322

perf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 10, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

perf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event()

The perf_fuzzer found a hard-lockup crash on a RaptorLake machine:

Oops: general protection fault, maybe for address 0xffff89aeceab400: 0000 CPU: 23 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/23 Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 9660/0VJ762 RIP: 0010:native_read_pmc+0x7/0x40 Code: cc e8 8d a9 01 00 48 89 03 5b cd cc cc cc cc 0f 1f ... RSP: 000:fffb03100273de8 EFLAGS: 00010046 .... Call Trace: <TASK> icl_update_topdown_event+0x165/0x190 ? ktime_get+0x38/0xd0 intel_pmu_read_event+0xf9/0x210 __perf_event_read+0xf9/0x210

CPUs 16-23 are E-core CPUs that don't support the perf metrics feature. The icl_update_topdown_event() should not be invoked on these CPUs.

It's a regression of commit:

f9bdf1f95339 ("perf/x86/intel: Avoid disable PMU if !cpuc->enabled in sample read")

The bug introduced by that commit is that the is_topdown_event() function is mistakenly used to replace the is_topdown_count() call to check if the topdown functions for the perf metrics feature should be invoked.

Fix it.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 781b2db0eb7731fbde510c268b7ccc62959c3feb to before 702ea6028032d6c1fe96c2d4762a3575e3654819Affected
  • e7f6922c8a5b41522a8329ea6bbf815993b2dd28 to before 79e2dd573116d3338507c311460da9669095c94dAffected
  • 3a8bec6583e5239de3bd597ab382dc6c2b0c29a1 to before e97c45c770f5e56c784a46c2a96ab968d26b97d9Affected
  • f9bdf1f953392c9edd69a7f884f78c0390127029 to before a85cc69acdcb05f8cd226b8ea0778b8e2e887e6fAffected
  • f9bdf1f953392c9edd69a7f884f78c0390127029 to before b0823d5fbacb1c551d793cbfe7af24e0d1fa45edAffected
  • 06cd7bfbb86e9db3e9013ea6636ad2c6f0a1664dAffected
  • d8370aa704bd7e384918c8f466856374725c0585Affected
  • 6.1.134 to before 6.1.149Affected
  • 6.6.87 to before 6.6.101Affected
  • 6.12.23 to before 6.12.49Affected
  • 6.13.11 to before 6.14Affected
  • 6.14.2 to before 6.15Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.1.149 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.101 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.49 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.15.4 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16 and laterNot affected

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