[PATCHES v2 0/5] perf DSO hardening series

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-perf-users,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

	Please consider merging,

Five hardening fixes for the perf DSO data handling code path, all found
by the sashiko-bot AI reviewer:

  - __open_dso() can return a file descriptor of 0 (stdin) when
    dso__get_filename() fails without setting errno, so fd = -errno = 0
    looked like a successfully opened DSO;

  - dso__decompress_kmodule_path() calls close(fd) with fd = -1 when
    decompression fails or the DSO is not compressed, clobbering errno
    with EBADF on the error path;

  - file_read() reads the stale global errno after try_to_open_dso()
    fails, when by then errno has been through mutex_lock(),
    nsinfo__mountns_enter() and several open() attempts;

  - dso_cache__memcpy() underflows when cache->size is smaller than the
    RB tree offset (short pread), computing a huge memcpy length;

  - dso__read_symbol() asserts on an input-dependent condition instead
    of doing a runtime check, keeping the BPF metadata safe from crafted
    input.

Best regards,

- Arnaldo

What changed from v1 ([email protected]):

  PATCH 1/5:
  - __open_dso() now sets errno = ENOENT directly when
    dso__get_filename() fails with errno == 0, instead of only computing
    fd = -ENOENT.  Callers that check errno after a negative fd (e.g.
    file_read() returning -errno) no longer get 0/EOF for an open
    failure [sashiko-bot review of PATCH 1/5].

  - Rebased onto the current perf-tools-next head (bf10e6ee2ac3034c).

This series was developed with assistance from Claude (claude-opus-4.6)
and Opencode (deepseek-v4-flash-free) for code analysis, patch
generation, and commit message composition.  All changes were validated
by the maintainer.

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (5):
  perf dso: Guard against errno==0 when dso__get_filename() returns NULL
  perf dso: Guard close() against invalid fd in
    dso__decompress_kmodule_path()
  perf dso: Use stored fd error instead of stale errno in file_read()
  perf dso: Guard against cache underflow on short reads in
    dso_cache__memcpy()
  perf dso: Replace assert with runtime check in dso__read_symbol()

 tools/perf/util/dso.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

base-commit: bf10e6ee2ac3034c9068e03eed418fd16961984e
v1-head: f6cb9e46c7b8949b
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