linux-kernel - Re: perf: fuzzer causes stack going in wrong direction warnings

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Date:   Sat, 5 May 2018 11:38:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: perf: fuzzer causes stack going in wrong direction warnings

On Fri, 4 May 2018, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> The 'nmi_restore' warning points to a bug in my patch, but the others
> are head scratchers.  Here's a patch which combines the first two
> patches, plus improves the existing warnings a bit.  Can you try it?

with that updated patch I hit

May  4 21:51:20 haswell kernel: [19245.450607] WARNING: stack recursion on stack type 2
May  4 22:21:29 haswell kernel: [21055.268717] WARNING: can't dereference registers at 000000006546ba71 for ip ret_from_intr+0x6/0x1d
May  4 22:36:22 haswell kernel: [21948.106762] WARNING: stack going in the wrong direction? ip=native_sched_clock+0xe/0x90
May  4 22:36:22 haswell kernel: [21948.115377] WARNING: stack going in the wrong direction? ip=native_sched_clock+0xe/0x90
May  4 22:36:22 haswell kernel: [21948.124086] WARNING: stack going in the wrong direction? ip=native_sched_clock+0xd/0x90
May  4 22:36:22 haswell kernel: [21948.124088] WARNING: stack going in the wrong direction? ip=intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x12/0x4a0
May  4 22:36:22 haswell kernel: [21948.124097] WARNING: stack going in the wrong direction? ip=native_sched_clock+0xe/0x90
May  4 22:36:22 haswell kernel: [21948.150189] WARNING: stack going in the wrong direction? ip=native_sched_clock+0xe/0x90
May  4 22:36:22 haswell kernel: [21948.150199] WARNING: stack going in the wrong direction? ip=intel_pmu_handle_irq+0xe/0x4a0

the last bit repeated for a few minutes (flooding the log with a few 
thousand entries that look mostly similar)

Vince