Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 07 2017 - 06:49:04 EST


On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 10:43:32AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:

> An old syzkaller may not understand part of syscalls in the program
> and silently drop them, you need a new one.

That's yucky semantics, better to at least warn on that occasion.

> Here is a straightforward conversion of the syzkaller program to C
> (with/without namespace sandbox):
>
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/b6540bed50b7da1dff3d7373ba570c77/raw/fd5f2f3aaa52b70b2bb9f114cf8a3226d8a30960/gistfile1.txt
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/dbd8ec38bcb50df4bdc95210d4247b09/raw/f9cbb5e17cd4ff4a7a7881c97dea7d6cd6dd8bf1/gistfile1.txt

Thanks!

> That's also with -procs=10, you can change number of procs in main funciton.
>
> But I wasn't able to reproduce the crash using these programs (neither
> the syzkaller program), that's why I did not provide it all initially.

Right, I'll run them while at the same time trying to see what it is
they're doing to find clues.