perf session: Validate nr fields against event size on both swap and common paths
Several event types use an nr field to control iteration over
variable-length arrays. The swap handlers byte-swap and loop using
these fields without bounds checks, and the native processing path
trusts them as well.
Add bounds checks on both paths for:
- PERF_RECORD_THREAD_MAP: validate nr against payload, return -1
on the swap path. On the native path, reject with -EINVAL.
- PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES: clamp nr on the swap path (safe because
each entry is indexed by type; missing entries just won't be
resolved). Skip the event on the native path.
- PERF_RECORD_CPU_MAP: clamp nr for CPUS and MASK sub-types on
the swap path. Add bounds checks for mask64 which previously
had no nr validation. Skip the event on the native path.
- PERF_RECORD_STAT_CONFIG: clamp nr on the swap path (safe because
each config entry is self-describing via its tag). Skip the
event on the native path.
The swap path (cross-endian, writable MAP_PRIVATE mapping) can
safely clamp by writing back to the event. The native path
(read-only MAP_SHARED mapping) must skip instead of clamping
because writing to the mmap'd event would segfault.
Also fix stat_config swap range: change size += 1 to
size += sizeof(event->stat_config.nr) for clarity. The old +1
happened to work because mem_bswap_64 processes 8-byte chunks,
but the intent is to include the 8-byte nr field in the swap
range.
Changes in v2:
- Document that PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES max_nr includes trailing
sample_id space when sample_id_all is present — harmless on the
swap path because both per-element bswap_64 and swap_sample_id_all()
perform the same u64 byte swap (Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org)
Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org # Running on a local machine Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6-1m Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>