CVE-2026-97587 PUBLISHED

perf: RISC-V: store available counter mask as bitmap

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 24.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

perf: RISC-V: store available counter mask as bitmap

The available-counter mask was a single unsigned long, but iteration uses RISCV_MAX_COUNTERS, which is 64. On RV32 that reads past the object. Filling with an unsigned-long bit at index 32 and above is also wrong.

Use DECLARE_BITMAP and set_bit/bitmap helpers. Walk each bitmap word into CFG_MATCH when checking events, when allocating an index, and when stopping all counters. Set the counter base to i times BITS_PER_LONG. Share the CFG_MATCH ecall through a small helper so the 32-bit argument split is not duplicated. On qemu-system-riscv32 the probe bitmap has bits above XLEN set, so the first word alone is not enough.

[pjw@kernel.org: updated to apply; fixed checkpatch.pl issues]

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e9991434596f5373dfd75857b445eb92a9253c56 to 143668c424772979a45118dc9cc9c2c13a35f41d (excl.)
  • affected from e9991434596f5373dfd75857b445eb92a9253c56 to 9bec7beaed074bcae4181fde9ff9dfbe4e7b0957 (excl.)
  • affected from e9991434596f5373dfd75857b445eb92a9253c56 to e5481db31f4654e9a1254d5d467d9b1ff2f8b1cb (excl.)
  • affected from e9991434596f5373dfd75857b445eb92a9253c56 to 6809da6e9c08ccc9a09cb0a48c61471679274aaa (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.111 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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