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CVE-2026-90272NVD
Vulnerability Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf: arm_pmuv3: Zero initialize hw_id branch stack field
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX is supported by BRBE so hw_id is passed to
userspace, but it's never set by the BRBE driver. Zero initialize it as
it should be according to the docs:
* For the architectures whose raw branch records are
* already stored in age order, the hw_idx should be 0.
It's probably too risky to remove PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX from BRBE
now in case anyone is setting it and reading the value, but zero
initializing the whole struct also protects against the same issue with
new fields that are added in the future.
perf: arm_pmuv3: Zero initialize hw_id branch stack field
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX is supported by BRBE so hw_id is passed to
userspace, but it's never set by the BRBE driver. Zero initialize it as
it should be according to the docs:
* For the architectures whose raw branch records are
* already stored in age order, the hw_idx should be 0.
It's probably too risky to remove PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX from BRBE
now in case anyone is setting it and reading the value, but zero
initializing the whole struct also protects against the same issue with
new fields that are added in the future.
Affected & Patched Versions
- Linux Linux >= 58074a0fce66c6c97b35ce8a28ed4e7b780f9a8f and < 57b72442c1672963fd51ab441ca1b71f6dc79b66
- Linux Linux >= 58074a0fce66c6c97b35ce8a28ed4e7b780f9a8f and < 988e11b69ef9d4034e19c64407030fa948580c3d
- Linux Linux >= 58074a0fce66c6c97b35ce8a28ed4e7b780f9a8f and < 7c3b63386c27bed8d59a4b4c283d02860420eb0a
- Linux Linux >= 6.17
- Linux Linux 57b72442c1672963fd51ab441ca1b71f6dc79b66
- Linux Linux 988e11b69ef9d4034e19c64407030fa948580c3d
- Linux Linux 7c3b63386c27bed8d59a4b4c283d02860420eb0a