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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37878"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-09T06:45:42.459Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:58:30.579Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37878"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37878.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37878"
title: "perf/core: Fix WARN_ON(!ctx) in __free_event() for partial init"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf/core: Fix WARN_ON(!ctx) in __free_event() for partial init\n\nMove the get_ctx(child_ctx) call and the child_event-\u003ectx assignment to\noccur immediately after the child event is allocated. Ensure that\nchild_event-\u003ectx is non-NULL before any subsequent error path within\ninherit_event calls free_event(), satisfying the assumptions of the\ncleanup code.\n\nDetails:\n\nThere's no clear Fixes tag, because this bug is a side-effect of\nmultiple interacting commits over time (up to 15 years old), not\na single regression.\n\nThe code initially incremented refcount then assigned context\nimmediately after the child_event was created. Later, an early\nvalidity check for child_event was added before the\nrefcount/assignment. Even later, a WARN_ON_ONCE() cleanup check was\nadded, assuming event-\u003ectx is valid if the pmu_ctx is valid.\nThe problem is that the WARN_ON_ONCE() could trigger after the initial\ncheck passed but before child_event-\u003ectx was assigned, violating its\nprecondition. The solution is to assign child_event-\u003ectx right after\nits initial validation. This ensures the context exists for any\nsubsequent checks or cleanup routines, resolving the WARN_ON_ONCE().\n\nTo resolve it, defer the refcount update and child_event-\u003ectx assignment\ndirectly after child_event-\u003epmu_ctx is set but before checking if the\nparent event is orphaned. The cleanup routine depends on\nevent-\u003epmu_ctx being non-NULL before it verifies event-\u003ectx is\nnon-NULL. This also maintains the author's original intent of passing\nin child_ctx to find_get_pmu_context before its refcount/assignment.\n\n[ mingo: Expanded the changelog from another email by Gabriel Shahrouzi. ]"
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