CVE-2025-38049

x86/resctrl: Fix allocation of cleanest CLOSID on platforms with no monitors

Medium · published April 18, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

x86/resctrl: Fix allocation of cleanest CLOSID on platforms with no monitors

Commit

6eac36bb9eb0 ("x86/resctrl: Allocate the cleanest CLOSID by searching closid_num_dirty_rmid")

added logic that causes resctrl to search for the CLOSID with the fewest dirty

cache lines when creating a new control group, if requested by the arch code.

This depends on the values read from the llc_occupancy counters. The logic is

applicable to architectures where the CLOSID effectively forms part of the

monitoring identifier and so do not allow complete freedom to choose an unused

monitoring identifier for a given CLOSID.

This support missed that some platforms may not have these counters. This

causes a NULL pointer dereference when creating a new control group as the

array was not allocated by dom_data_init().

As this feature isn't necessary on platforms that don't have cache occupancy

monitors, add this to the check that occurs when a new control group is

allocated.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00263 · 17.2th percentile
Published
2025-04-18T07:01Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 APR 07:01Z
    x86/resctrl: Fix allocation of cleanest CLOSID on platforms with no monitors
    cvelistv5