Bug 2334662 (CVE-2024-56706)

Summary: CVE-2024-56706 kernel: s390/cpum_sf: Fix and protect memory allocation of SDBs with mutex
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-28 10:01:06 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/cpum_sf: Fix and protect memory allocation of SDBs with mutex

Reservation of the PMU hardware is done at first event creation
and is protected by a pair of mutex_lock() and mutex_unlock().
After reservation of the PMU hardware the memory
required for the PMUs the event is to be installed on is
allocated by allocate_buffers() and alloc_sampling_buffer().
This done outside of the mutex protection.
Without mutex protection two or more concurrent invocations of
perf_event_init() may run in parallel.
This can lead to allocation of Sample Data Blocks (SDBs)
multiple times for the same PMU.
Prevent this and protect memory allocation of SDBs by
mutex.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-29 07:39:39 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122838-CVE-2024-56706-d292@gregkh/T