Re: perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot

[Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>]

cc'ing x32 people

On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Vince Weaver wrote:

> So I'm not sure who exactly to report this to.  Some perf people CC'd as
> I trigger it while using the perf_fuzzer.
> 
> This is with 3.14-rc3 on a core2 machine, although I've had the reboots 
> happen throughout at least 3.14-rc*
> 
> I'm having a hard time coming up with a reproducible test case.  Using the 
> random seed that caused the below will cause the perf_fuzzer to segfault 
> but not reboot.
> 
> The log isn't very helpful, it reboots so fast that the oops doesn't 
> finish printing and the serial log just moves to the bootloader...
> 
> [ 4466.804123] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050
> [ 4466.808014] IP: [<ffffffff81111783>] cache_reap+0x5e/0x1c5
> [ 4466.808014] PGD 0 
> [ 4466.808014] Oops: 0000 [#1] GNU GRUB  version 2.00-17

Maybe related, this is on an x32-compiled binary.

When trying to reproduce the perf_fuzzer myseriously segfaults on what 
appears to be perfectly valid mmap'd perf ring-buffers.

(running under gdb)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0041efbb in __memset_sse2 ()

=> 0x0041efbb <+2203>:  movdqa %xmm0,(%rdi)

rdi            0xf7f61000       4160098304

f7f61000-f7f72000 rw-s 00000000 00:08 4475  anon_inode:[perf_event]

So I'm not sure if somehow something is wrong with the page mapping, that 
makes a valid write fail and sometimes (possibly due to address space 
randomization) reboot the system?

Vince