Re: perf_fuzzer crash on pentium 4

[Vince Weaver]

On Wed, 7 May 2014, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> > [   67.872274] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004
> > [   67.876146] IP: [<ffffffff81013df2>] p4_pmu_schedule_events+0xa5/0x331
> 
> This looks like
> 
> p4_pmu_schedule_events:
> 		...
> 		bind = p4_config_get_bind(hwc->config);
> 			returned bind = NULL;
> 		escr_idx = p4_get_escr_idx(bind->escr_msr[thread]); NULL deref
> 
> If i'm right (btw it's possible to use addr2line helper?) 

Yes, the address maps to

	escr_idx = p4_get_escr_idx(bind->escr_msr[thread]);

> then hwc->config
> is corrupted and p4_config_get_bind returned nil simply because proper event
> was not found. And I don't understand how it could happen because before
> configuration gets written into hwc->config it's validated once obtained
> from user-space as a raw event. Weird...

I'll try to get some sort of trace out if it to see what event is being 
tried.

Vince
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