Re: perf: perf_fuzzer triggers instant reboot

[Sasha Levin]

On 09/10/2014 09:18 AM, Vince Weaver wrote:
> that's what got me looking at things again, the trinity reports.  Though I 
> think those involve CPU hotplugging which my fuzzer shouldn't trigger.
> 
> I do think this is the same memory corruption/reboot bug that I reported 
> back in February (the thread is "perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes 
> reboot" but I wasn't able to isolate the problem then either.
> 
> Somehow something is stomping over memory with a forking workload (likely 
> an improper free with RCU like we've seen before) but the fact that it 
> causes a reboot immediately makes it *really* hard to debug this.

Could this be http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1779436 which
I saw couple days ago?


Thanks,
Sasha
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