[syzbot] Monthly perf report (Aug 2025)

From: syzbot
Date: Fri Aug 08 2025 - 03:37:39 EST


Hello perf maintainers/developers,

This is a 31-day syzbot report for the perf subsystem.
All related reports/information can be found at:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream/s/perf

During the period, 1 new issues were detected and 1 were fixed.
In total, 3 issues are still open and 27 have already been fixed.

Some of the still happening issues:

Ref Crashes Repro Title
<1> 7542 Yes WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in get_callchain_entry
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=72a43cdb78469f7fbad1
<2> 43 Yes WARNING in __perf_event_overflow (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2524754f17993441bf66
<3> 2 No KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __task_pid_nr_ns
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e0378d4f4fe57aa2bdd0

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