N/A - CVE-2022-49781

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

perf/x86/amd: Fix crash due to race between amd_pmu_enable_all, perf NMI and throttling

amd_pmu_enable_all() does:

if (!test_bit(idx, cpuc->active_mask))
continue;

amd_pmu_enable_event(cpuc->events[idx]);

A perf NMI of another event can come between these two steps. Perf NMI handler internally disables and enables _all_ events, including the one which nmi-intercepted amd_pmu_enable_all() was in process of enabling. If that unintentionally enabled event has very low sampling period and causes immediate successive NMI, causing the event to be throttled, cpuc->events[idx] and cpuc->active_mask gets cleared by x86_pmu_stop(). This will result in amd_pmu_enable_event() getting called with event=NULL when amd_pmu_enable_all() resumes after handling the NMIs. This causes a kernel crash:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000198
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[...]
Call Trace:

amd_pmu_enable_all+0x68/0xb0
ctx_resched+0xd9/0x150
event_function+0xb8/0x130
? hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x141/0x4a0
? perf_duration_warn+0x30/0x30
remote_function+0x4d/0x60
__flush_smp_call_function_queue+0xc4/0x500
flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x11d/0x1b0
do_idle+0x18f/0x2d0
cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20
start_secondary+0x121/0x160
secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe5/0xeb

amd_pmu_disable_all()/amd_pmu_enable_all() calls inside perf NMI handler were recently added as part of BRS enablement but I'm not sure whether we really need them. We can just disable BRS in the beginning and enable it back while returning from NMI. This will solve the issue by not enabling those events whose active_masks are set but are not yet enabled in hw pmu.