CVE-2025-38322 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-38322

perf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event()

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event() The perf_fuzzer found a hard-lockup crash on a RaptorLake machine: Oops: general protection fault, maybe for address 0xffff89aeceab400: 0000 CPU: 23 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/23 Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 9660/0VJ762 RIP: 0010:native_read_pmc+0x7/0x40 Code: cc e8 8d a9 01 00 48 89 03 5b cd cc cc cc cc 0f 1f ... RSP: 000:fffb03100273de8 EFLAGS: 00010046 .... Call Trace: <TASK> icl_update_topdown_event+0x165/0x190 ? ktime_get+0x38/0xd0 intel_pmu_read_event+0xf9/0x210 __perf_event_read+0xf9/0x210 CPUs 16-23 are E-core CPUs that don't support the perf metrics feature. The icl_update_topdown_event() should not be invoked on these CPUs. It's a regression of commit: f9bdf1f95339 ("perf/x86/intel: Avoid disable PMU if !cpuc->enabled in sample read") The bug introduced by that commit is that the is_topdown_event() function is mistakenly used to replace the is_topdown_count() call to check if the topdown functions for the perf metrics feature should be invoked. Fix it.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
781b2db0eb7731fbde510c268b7ccc62959c3feb, e7f6922c8a5b41522a8329ea6bbf815993b2dd28, 3a8bec6583e5239de3bd597ab382dc6c2b0c29a1, f9bdf1f953392c9edd69a7f884f78c0390127029, 06cd7bfbb86e9db3e9013ea6636ad2c6f0a1664d, d8370aa704bd7e384918c8f466856374725c0585, 6.1.134, 6.6.87, 6.12.23, 6.13.11, 6.14.2, 6.15, 0, 6.1.149, 6.6.101, 6.12.49, 6.15.4, 6.16

Timeline

Official Publish: July 10th, 2025
Last Modified: July 14th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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