Re: perf: fuzzer KASAN unwind_get_return_address

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 08:37:46AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 02:03:37PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 02:57:48PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > Would you mind posting a disassembly of unwind_get_return_address()?
> > > Any idea how recreatable it is?  (In particular I'd be interested in
> > > seeing this dump with the latest unwinder improvements in the -tip tree,
> > > which dump the pt_regs associated with an interrupt.)
> > 
> > Fairly reproducable it seems, doesn't seem to include pt_regs dumps
> > though :/
> > 
> > tip/master as of this morning.
> 
> Thanks.  This is actually a different issue than the one reported by
> Vince.  In this case FRAME_POINTER is disabled, so it uses the "guess"
> unwinder which scans every address on the stack, looking for text
> addresses.  So the kasan errors are expected.
> 
> (The missing pt_regs are also expected: the guess unwinder doesn't show
> them.)
> 
> I'll work up a patch to fix this.  I still have no idea what's causing
> Vince's bug in the frame pointer unwinder.

Hurm,.. by the number of '?' entries in Vince's backtrace I was assuming
it was without frame pointers.

Let me enable those and run again, it didn't insta-trigger like it does
without.