CVE-2025-38565

Summary

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

perf/core: Exit early on perf_mmap() fail

When perf_mmap() fails to allocate a buffer, it still invokes the event_mapped() callback of the related event. On X86 this might increase the perf_rdpmc_allowed reference counter. But nothing undoes this as perf_mmap_close() is never called in this case, which causes another reference count leak.

Return early on failure to prevent that.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux1e0fb9ec679c9273a641f1d6f3d25ea47baef2bb < 5ffda7f3ed76ec8defc19d985e33b3b82ba07839affected
LinuxLinux1e0fb9ec679c9273a641f1d6f3d25ea47baef2bb < 9b90a48c7de828a15c7a4fc565d46999c6e22d6baffected
LinuxLinux1e0fb9ec679c9273a641f1d6f3d25ea47baef2bb < de85e72598d89880a02170a1cbc27b35a7d978a9affected
LinuxLinux1e0fb9ec679c9273a641f1d6f3d25ea47baef2bb < 27d44145bd576bbef9bf6165bcd78128ec3e6cbdaffected
LinuxLinux1e0fb9ec679c9273a641f1d6f3d25ea47baef2bb < f41e9eba77bf97626e04296dc5677d02816d2432affected
LinuxLinux1e0fb9ec679c9273a641f1d6f3d25ea47baef2bb < 92043120a2e992800580855498ab8507e1b22db9affected
LinuxLinux1e0fb9ec679c9273a641f1d6f3d25ea47baef2bb < 163b0d1a209fe0df5476c1df2330ca12b55abf92affected
LinuxLinux1e0fb9ec679c9273a641f1d6f3d25ea47baef2bb < 7ff8521f30c4c2fcd4e88bd7640486602bf8a650affected
LinuxLinux1e0fb9ec679c9273a641f1d6f3d25ea47baef2bb < 07091aade394f690e7b655578140ef84d0e8d7b0affected
LinuxLinux4.0affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.0unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.297 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.241 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.190 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.148 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.102 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.42 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.15.10 <= 6.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16.1 <= 6.16.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.17 <= *unaffected

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