[PATCH 05/15] perf dso: Fix heap overflow in dso__get_filename() on decompressed path
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 20:37:40 EST
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
dso__get_filename() allocates name with malloc(PATH_MAX), but the
dso__filename_with_chroot() path replaces name with an asprintf'd
exact-size string (e.g. 8 bytes for "/a/b.ko"). When the DSO needs
decompression, dso__decompress_kmodule_path() writes the temp path
("/tmp/perf-kmod-XXXXXX", 22 bytes) into newpath, and strcpy(name,
newpath) overflows the smaller allocation.
Replace the strcpy with strdup(newpath) + free(name) so the buffer
is always correctly sized for its content.
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 1d6b3c9ba756a513 ("perf tools: Decompress kernel module when reading DSO data")
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/dso.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.c b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
index 5d017975873817ec..511921bd901d8145 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/dso.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
@@ -603,8 +603,15 @@ static char *dso__get_filename(struct dso *dso, const char *root_dir,
/* empty pathname means file wasn't actually compressed */
if (newpath[0] != '\0') {
+ char *tmp = strdup(newpath);
+
+ if (!tmp) {
+ unlink(newpath);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ free(name);
+ name = tmp;
*decomp = true;
- strcpy(name, newpath);
}
}
return name;
--
2.54.0