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authorDapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>2025-09-19 10:16:56 +0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2025-10-02 15:31:00 -0300
commit45ff39f6e70aa55d0054fbc3508eba9ac03d7e29 (patch)
tree49129afe8b04b0f9e2557c1e4a88617e4afa935a /tools/perf
parent6f58cf10457f5868ef4cd98b4de6428787b3fb2c (diff)
perf tools kvm: Fix the potential out of range memory access issue
kvm_add_default_arch_event() helper may add 2 extra options but it directly modifies the original argv[] array. This may cause out of range memory access. Fix this issue. Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c
index 9813f1eb56f9..d297a7b2c088 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c
@@ -2008,11 +2008,12 @@ static int __cmd_record(const char *file_name, int argc, const char **argv)
int rec_argc, i = 0, j, ret;
const char **rec_argv;
- ret = kvm_add_default_arch_event(&argc, argv);
- if (ret)
- return -EINVAL;
-
- rec_argc = argc + 2;
+ /*
+ * Besides the 2 more options "-o" and "filename",
+ * kvm_add_default_arch_event() may add 2 extra options,
+ * so allocate 4 more items.
+ */
+ rec_argc = argc + 2 + 2;
rec_argv = calloc(rec_argc + 1, sizeof(char *));
if (!rec_argv)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -2025,6 +2026,10 @@ static int __cmd_record(const char *file_name, int argc, const char **argv)
BUG_ON(i != rec_argc);
+ ret = kvm_add_default_arch_event(&i, rec_argv);
+ if (ret)
+ goto EXIT;
+
ret = cmd_record(i, rec_argv);
EXIT: