CVE-2026-80671

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

perf sched: Fix register_pid() overflow, strcpy, and BUG_ON

register_pid() has several issues when processing untrusted perf.data:

1. Integer overflow: (pid + 1) * sizeof(struct task_desc *) can wrap to a small value on 32-bit systems when pid is large (e.g. 0x40000000), causing realloc to return a tiny buffer followed by out-of-bounds writes in the initialization loop.

2. Heap buffer overflow: strcpy(task->comm, comm) copies the untrusted comm string into a fixed 20-byte COMM_LEN buffer with no length check.

3. BUG_ON on allocation failure: perf.data is untrusted input, so allocation failures should be handled gracefully rather than killing the process.

4. Realloc of sched->tasks assigned directly back, leaking the old pointer on failure; nr_tasks incremented before the realloc, leaving corrupted state on failure.

Cap pid at PID_MAX_LIMIT (4194304, matching the kernels maximum on 64-bit), replace strcpy with strlcpy, guard against NULL comm, replace BUG_ON with NULL returns using safe realloc patterns, and add NULL checks in callers that dereference the result.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2003918e13f43cf6c5698be3cc9aa3657dd676a8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22263d241bad753217d545f8085b7ead52e2873b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/261d2b5f4afa0570ca906e553c93811c5abe4590
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29639f00bfa49da7904ba0a499e0da7a0e5d735e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/344e59fc4f2cba6dc04ce5e2a77388645d4ca834
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5949d339f5ec98752d56dcd4e36f619a59d513a5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ea1dcc9418c4e06ce29ed5170596f497ba86872
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/652cea73b7b7b7c622a2be670e44e3c499c6d49f