linux-kernel - Re: pi futex oops in __lock

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Message-ID: <20121025110954.GA24886@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:09:54 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pi futex oops in __lock_acquire

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:44:07PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > On 10/24/2012 01:24 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > I've been able to trigger this for the last week or so.
 > > Unclear whether this is a new bug, or my fuzzer got smarter, but I see the
 > > pi-futex code hasn't changed since the last time it found something..
 > > 
 > >  > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
 > >
 > > It looks like we got all the way to lock_acquire with a NULL 'lock' somehow.
 > > 
 > > Darren, any idea how this could happen ?
 > 
 > I'm digging. Can you get trinity to provide the arguments it used that
 > trigger the crash? That might help hone in on the exact path.
 
Happens pretty quickly with -c futex for me. (30 seconds or so)

	Dave
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