linux-kernel - Re: perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot

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Message-ID: <20140228154636.3634a8b3@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:46:36 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:38:52 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

> Now we need to figure out if the reboot problem and the segfault problem are actually the same... I have a nasty feeling they might be different problems.

I wonder if there was any recursion problem. Although, I believe perf
has recursion checks. But perhaps something recursed before the checks?

-- Steve
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