From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vince@deater.net,
eranian@google.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/bts: don't dereference ds unconditionally
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:44:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r38eu1mc.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160920131220.xg5pbdjtznszuyzb@breakpoint.cc>
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> writes:
> From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
>
> Since commit 4d4c47412464 ("perf/x86/intel/bts: Fix BTS PMI detection")
> my box goes boom on boot:
>
> | .... node #0, CPUs: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
> | BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
> | IP: [<ffffffff8100c463>] intel_bts_interrupt+0x43/0x130
> | Call Trace:
> | <NMI> d [<ffffffff8100b341>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x51/0x4b0
> | [<ffffffff81004d47>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x27/0x40
>
> I don't know what is going on here but ds is not always dereferenced
> unconditionally hence here the `ds' check to avoid the crash.
Good catch! I'm going to guess you don't have the NMI watchdog enabled?
Thanks,
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-20 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-06 13:23 [PATCH v2 0/5] perf, bts: Fallout from the fuzzer for perf/urgent Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-06 13:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] perf: Fix a race between mmap_close and set_output of AUX events Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-10 12:38 ` [tip:perf/core] perf/core: Fix a race between mmap_close() and set_output() " tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-06 13:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] perf: Fix aux_mmap_count vs aux_refcount order Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-10 12:38 ` [tip:perf/core] perf/core: " tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-06 13:23 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] perf/x86/intel/bts: Fix confused ordering of PMU callbacks Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-10 12:39 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-06 13:23 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] perf/x86/intel/bts: Fix BTS PMI detection Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-10 12:39 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-20 13:12 ` [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/bts: don't dereference ds unconditionally Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-09-20 13:44 ` Alexander Shishkin [this message]
2016-09-20 13:54 ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-20 14:13 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86/intel/bts: Make sure debug store is valid tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-09-06 13:23 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] perf/x86/intel/bts: Kill a silly warning Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-10 12:40 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-06 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] perf, bts: Fallout from the fuzzer for perf/urgent Ingo Molnar
2016-09-07 0:13 ` Vince Weaver
2016-09-07 15:20 ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-07 15:36 ` Vince Weaver
2016-09-07 16:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-07 18:33 ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-08 3:36 ` Vince Weaver
2016-09-08 8:51 ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-09-08 12:54 ` Vince Weaver
2016-09-08 6:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-09-08 6:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-09-08 8:43 ` Alexander Shishkin
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