Re: [4.7+] various memory corruption reports.

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 06:21:12PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
 > 2016-07-29 18:19 GMT+03:00 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
 > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:05:14AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > >  > I've just gotten back into running trinity on daily pulls of master, and it seems pretty horrific
 > >  > right now.  I can reproduce some kind of memory corruption within a couple minutes runtime.
 > >  >
 > >  > ,,,
 > >  >
 > >  > I'll work on narrowing down the exact syscalls needed to trigger this.
 > >
 > > Even limiting it to do just a simple syscall like execve (which fails most the time in trinity)
 > > triggers it, suggesting it's not syscall related, but the fact that trinity is forking/killing
 > > tons of processes at high rate is stressing something more fundamental.
 > >
 > > Given how easy this reproduces, I'll see if bisecting gives up something useful.
 > 
 > I suspect this is false positives due to changes in KASAN.
 > Bisection probably will point to
 > 80a9201a5965f4715d5c09790862e0df84ce0614 ("mm, kasan: switch SLUB to
 > stackdepot, enable memory quarantine for SLUB)"

good call. reverting that changeset seems to have solved it.

	Dave