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From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
To: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eranian@google.com,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] perf, bts: Fallout from the fuzzer for perf/urgent
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 20:10:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shtvl8c5.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1608231223310.3428@pianoman.cluster.toy>

Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> writes:

> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
>
>> Recently Vince has reported warnings and panics coming from the
>> general direction of AUX tracing. I found two bugs which manifest
>> similarly, one in intel_bts driver and one in AUX unmapping path.
>> 
>> Both are triggered by racing SET_OUTPUT against mmap_close while
>> running AUX tracing. I have a test case that set fire to the kernel
>> within a few seconds by doing this, which I can share if anyone
>> cares.
>
> I've applied these and am fuzzing on my Haswell machine and I'm getting 
> lots and lots of
>
> [  945.536374] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> [  945.542391] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21 on CPU 2.
> [  945.549360] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> [  945.556701] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> [  945.563643] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 2.
> [  945.571379] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> [  945.578754] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> [  945.630889] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 2.
> [  945.638141] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> [  945.645523] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>
> messages that I wasn't getting before.  Of course, I updated from -rc2 to 
> -rc3 before applying the patch so it could also be related to that too, I 
> can try backing out the patches and see if it still happens.

Uhhuh, that's not cool, let me look some more. But it should stop dying
on bts/aux stuff at least.

Regards,
--
Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-23 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-23  8:54 [PATCH 0/3] perf, bts: Fallout from the fuzzer for perf/urgent Alexander Shishkin
2016-08-23  8:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf/x86/intel/bts: Fix confused ordering of PMU callbacks Alexander Shishkin
2016-08-24 12:28   ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-08-24 14:15     ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-08-26 20:49       ` Vince Weaver
2016-08-27  6:35         ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-08-29 14:14       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-08-29 14:43         ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-08-23  8:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf/x86/intel/bts: Kill a silly warning Alexander Shishkin
2016-08-23  8:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf: Fix a race between mmap_close and set_output of AUX events Alexander Shishkin
2016-08-23 16:24 ` [PATCH 0/3] perf, bts: Fallout from the fuzzer for perf/urgent Vince Weaver
2016-08-23 17:10   ` Alexander Shishkin [this message]
2016-08-23 20:55     ` Vince Weaver
2016-08-24  3:44       ` Alexander Shishkin

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