Database/Control plane, storage & DevOps
Linux perf/x86/amd - race between amd_pmu_enable_all, perf NMI and throttling: A race between AMD PMU enablement
CVE-2022-49781Control plane, storage & DevOpscurated
Impact
A race between AMD PMU enablement, the perf NMI handler and event throttling crashes the host. Performance counters are enabled by every profiling and observability agent, and throttling kicks in precisely when counters are busy - so the crash window opens under exactly the monitoring load an AI cluster runs continuously.
Who can reach it
Local, through perf event enablement. Reachable by node observability agents and, where perf_event_paranoid is relaxed, by tenants.
What to do
Distro kernel update plus reboot; no firmware step.
References
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