[PATCH v2 2/3] perf hisi-ptt: Strengthen auxtrace event handling and packet type detection

From: Sizhe Liu

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 02:30:09 EST


Fix pre-existing robustness issues in the hisi-ptt auxtrace decoder
reported by Sashiko:

1. Endianness in hisi_ptt_check_packet_type(): The first 32-bit word was
read with a host-endian memory cast (*(uint32_t *)buf). On big-endian
hosts analyzing a little-endian trace, the bit[31:11] 8DW magic check
fails and every 8DW packet is misclassified as 4DW. Read the header
with get_unaligned_le32().

2. Heap out-of-bounds read: hisi_ptt_dump() called
hisi_ptt_check_packet_type() which dereferenced 4 bytes of the buffer
without any size check. A malformed or truncated event with
auxtrace.size in {0,1,2,3} may cause a heap OOB read. Pass the buffer
length to hisi_ptt_check_packet_type() and return (defaulting to
4DW) when the buffer is shorter than HISI_PTT_FIELD_LENTH.

3. Integer truncation: event->auxtrace.size is __u64 but was stored in
an int. Traces larger than 2GB became negative (malloc failure), and
huge sizes wrapping to a small positive caused a short readn() that
left unread payload in the pipe and permanently desynchronized the
stream. Use u64 for the size, reject anything larger than SSIZE_MAX
before malloc (same bound used by auxtrace_copy_data()), and compare
readn()'s return value against (ssize_t)size to detect truncation.

Signed-off-by: Sizhe Liu <liusizhe5@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/hisi-ptt.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hisi-ptt.c b/tools/perf/util/hisi-ptt.c
index e4cc4785f744..d6f48993fdd6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hisi-ptt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hisi-ptt.c
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@
#include <endian.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
+#include <limits.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/unaligned.h>
#include <linux/zalloc.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
@@ -35,9 +37,15 @@ struct hisi_ptt {
u32 pmu_type;
};

-static enum hisi_ptt_pkt_type hisi_ptt_check_packet_type(unsigned char *buf)
+static enum hisi_ptt_pkt_type hisi_ptt_check_packet_type(unsigned char *buf,
+ size_t len)
{
- uint32_t head = *(uint32_t *)buf;
+ uint32_t head;
+
+ if (len < HISI_PTT_FIELD_LENTH)
+ return HISI_PTT_4DW_PKT;
+
+ head = get_unaligned_le32(buf);

if ((HISI_PTT_8DW_CHECK_MASK & head) == HISI_PTT_IS_8DW_PKT)
return HISI_PTT_8DW_PKT;
@@ -53,7 +61,7 @@ static void hisi_ptt_dump(struct hisi_ptt *ptt __maybe_unused,
size_t pos = 0;
int pkt_len;

- type = hisi_ptt_check_packet_type(buf);
+ type = hisi_ptt_check_packet_type(buf, len);
len = round_down(len, hisi_ptt_pkt_size[type]);
color_fprintf(stdout, color, ". ... HISI PTT data: size %zu bytes\n",
len);
@@ -91,11 +99,15 @@ static int hisi_ptt_process_auxtrace_event(struct perf_session *session,
struct hisi_ptt *ptt = container_of(session->auxtrace, struct hisi_ptt,
auxtrace);
int fd = perf_data__fd(session->data);
- int size = event->auxtrace.size;
- void *data = malloc(size);
+ u64 size = event->auxtrace.size;
off_t data_offset;
- int err;
+ ssize_t err;
+ void *data;
+
+ if (size > SSIZE_MAX)
+ return -EINVAL;

+ data = malloc(size);
if (!data)
return -errno;

--
2.33.0