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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: syzbot <syzbot+1f56df64bfb3c29dde6f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: dvhart@infradead.org, hpa@zytor.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: general protection fault in finish_task_switch (2)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:08:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180822090823.GT24124@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0000000000006e87360573f8b328@google.com>

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 02:28:02PM -0700, syzbot wrote:
> syzbot has found a reproducer for the following crash on:
> 
> HEAD commit:    778a33959a8a Merge tag 'please-pull-noboot' of git://git.k..
> git tree:       upstream
> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=14a5385a400000
> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=214e4990bd49329f
> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1f56df64bfb3c29dde6f
> compiler:       gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
> userspace arch: i386
> syzkaller repro:https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=13ffa561400000

FWIW the lack of whitespace between "repro:" and the URL makes it hard
to copy paste.

> C reproducer:   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=10023961400000


> RIP: 0010:__fire_sched_in_preempt_notifiers kernel/sched/core.c:2481

That repro thing does something dodgy with KVM, which then corrupts the
premption notifier thing. I'm sufficiently KVM clueless to not really
know where to start looking though..

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-22  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-10 14:42 general protection fault in finish_task_switch (2) syzbot
2018-08-21 21:28 ` syzbot
2018-08-22  9:08   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-08-22  9:22     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-08-24 20:16     ` Dmitry Vyukov

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