[PATCH 09/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CACHE

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

Add upper bound check on cache entry count in process_cache() to harden
against malformed perf.data files (max 32768).

Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/header.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 8e3f4655fbacc6dd..494206faeb250956 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -3241,6 +3241,19 @@ static int process_cache(struct feat_fd *ff, void *data __maybe_unused)
 	if (do_read_u32(ff, &cnt))
 		return -1;
 
+#define MAX_CACHE_ENTRIES 32768
+	if (cnt > MAX_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
+		pr_err("Invalid HEADER_CACHE: cnt (%u) > %u\n",
+		       cnt, MAX_CACHE_ENTRIES);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	if (ff->size < 2 * sizeof(u32) + cnt * 7 * sizeof(u32)) {
+		pr_err("Invalid HEADER_CACHE: section too small (%zu) for %u entries\n",
+		       ff->size, cnt);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	caches = calloc(cnt, sizeof(*caches));
 	if (!caches)
 		return -1;
-- 
2.53.0