Re: general protection fault in perf_misc_flags

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Oct 01 2020 - 07:05:25 EST


On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 12:23:08PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> I've prepared a change that removes rodata=n:
> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/pull/2155

Looks good.

> I think we will be able to indirectly evaluate if it helps or not over
> some period of time based on occurrence of any new similar crashes.

Yap, that would be interesting to see whether those corruptions
disappear. If they do, you probably should start getting #PFs of writes
to RO memory, instead, resulting from those stray writes. We'll see.

Thx.

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