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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 1/4] perf tools: Prevent out-of-bounds access to registers
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On 12/1/21 6:03 PM, German Gomez wrote:
> The size of the cache of register values is arch-dependant
> (PERF_REGS_MAX). This has the potential of causing an out-of-bounds
> access in the function "perf_reg_value" if the local architecture
> contains less registers than the one the perf.data file was recorded on.
>
> Since the maximum number of registers is bound by the bitmask "u64
> cache_mask", and the size of the cache when running under x86 systems is
> 64 already, fix the size to 64 and add a range-check to the function
> "perf_reg_value" to prevent out-of-bounds access.
>

Patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com>

Thanks,
Kajol Jain

> Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/event.h | 5 ++++-
> tools/perf/util/perf_regs.c | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.h b/tools/perf/util/event.h
> index 95ffed663..c59331eea 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/event.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/event.h
> @@ -44,13 +44,16 @@ struct perf_event_attr;
> /* perf sample has 16 bits size limit */
> #define PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE (1 << 16)
>
> +/* number of register is bound by the number of bits in regs_dump::mask (64) */
> +#define PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_CACHE_SIZE (8 * sizeof(u64))
> +
> struct regs_dump {
> u64 abi;
> u64 mask;
> u64 *regs;
>
> /* Cached values/mask filled by first register access. */
> - u64 cache_regs[PERF_REGS_MAX];
> + u64 cache_regs[PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_CACHE_SIZE];
> u64 cache_mask;
> };
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/perf_regs.c b/tools/perf/util/perf_regs.c
> index 5ee47ae15..06a7461ba 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/perf_regs.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/perf_regs.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ int perf_reg_value(u64 *valp, struct regs_dump *regs, int id)
> int i, idx = 0;
> u64 mask = regs->mask;
>
> + if ((u64)id >= PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_CACHE_SIZE)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> if (regs->cache_mask & (1ULL << id))
> goto out;
>
>

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