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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index ab76b36dce82..73cce8ac8368 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -559,6 +559,15 @@ int hw_breakpoint_arch_parse(struct perf_event *bp,
else
alignment_mask = 0x7;
offset = hw->address & alignment_mask;
+
+ /*
+ * BAS is an 8-bit field in WCR/BCR; the shift below would
+ * silently drop the high bits of ctrl.len when offset + len
+ * exceeds 8, programming hardware to watch fewer bytes than
+ * the user requested.
+ */
+ if (((u32)hw->ctrl.len << offset) > ARM_BREAKPOINT_LEN_8)
+ return -EINVAL;
}
hw->address &= ~alignment_mask;