Re: use-after-free in __perf_install_in_context

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Thu Dec 31 2015 - 12:16:10 EST


On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:35:32PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> In short, I did not see use-after-frees but perf_event_open fuzzing
>> started hanging VMs very frequently, so testing is inconclusive.
>
> Right, I'll get back to staring at that one.
>
> Running your test case on bare metal got my machine reproducably stuck
> but in a different place than you've reported.
>
> Takes a while too, so far no luck in explaining/debugging it. All my
> added debug code remains silent :/
>
> I'll go think up more ..

Hi Peter,

Any progress with this?
I can't continue to test perf subsytem, as it reliably hangs my machines.
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