From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [perf] more perf_fuzzer memory corruption
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:15:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140418171516.GR13658@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140418165958.GQ13658@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 06:59:58PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 05:23:14PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > OK, that's a good clue. That looks like we're freeing events that still
> > are on the owner list, which would indicate we're freeing events that
> > have a refcount.
> >
> > I added a WARN in free_event() to check the refcount, along with a
> > number of false positives (through the perf_event_open() fail path) I do
> > appear to be getting actual fails here.
> >
> > At least I can 'reproduce' this. Earlier attempts, even based on your
> > .config only got me very mysterious lockups -- I suspect the corruption
> > happens on a slightly different spot or so and completely messes up the
> > machine.
>
> The below should have only made the false positives go away, but my
> machine has magically stopped going all funny on me. Could you give it a
> go?
>
Hmm the fuzzer task seems stuck in kernel space, can't kill it anymore.
So its likely it just didn't get around to doing enough to wreck the
system or so.
/me goes stab it in the eye.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-18 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-15 21:37 [perf] more perf_fuzzer memory corruption Vince Weaver
2014-04-15 21:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-16 3:21 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-16 4:18 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-16 14:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-16 17:30 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-16 17:43 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-16 17:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-17 9:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-17 11:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-17 14:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-17 14:42 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-17 14:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-17 15:35 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-18 14:45 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-18 14:51 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-18 15:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-18 16:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-18 17:15 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-04-23 20:58 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-25 2:51 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-28 14:21 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-28 19:38 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-29 9:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-29 18:21 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-29 19:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-29 20:59 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-30 18:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-30 21:08 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-30 22:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-01 10:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-01 11:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-01 12:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-01 13:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-01 13:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-01 13:22 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-01 14:07 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-01 14:27 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-01 15:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-01 15:50 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-01 16:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-01 17:18 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-01 18:49 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-01 21:32 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-02 11:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-02 15:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-02 16:22 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-02 16:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-02 16:43 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-02 17:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-02 17:46 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-02 19:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-02 20:15 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-02 20:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-03 2:32 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-03 3:02 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-03 7:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-05 9:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-05 16:00 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-05 17:10 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-05 17:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-05 18:47 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-05 19:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-05 19:51 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-06 1:06 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-06 16:57 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-07 16:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-08 10:40 ` [tip:perf/core] perf: Fix perf_event_init_context() tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-05 17:29 ` [perf] more perf_fuzzer memory corruption Ingo Molnar
2014-05-06 4:51 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-06 17:06 ` Vince Weaver
2014-05-07 19:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-05-07 19:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-05-08 10:40 ` [tip:perf/core] perf: Fix race in removing an event tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-02 17:06 ` [perf] more perf_fuzzer memory corruption Vince Weaver
2014-05-02 17:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-29 19:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-29 8:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-29 18:11 ` Vince Weaver
2014-04-29 19:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-28 17:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
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