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

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Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:18:23 -0500 (EST)
From:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	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, H. Peter Anvin 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'm currently running a script that tries setting EBP to all possible 
32-bit pages and running the test to see if that triggers anything.

If I look at my notes the original reboot crash might have happened when I 
had the fuzzer also generating overflow signals (my current tests do not) 
so I'm not sure if having all this mess triggered from inside a signal 
handler could make it reboot somehow.

I was away from the computer this afternoon and of course I have scores of 
e-mails on this topic now with lots of competing patches.  Is there one 
in particular I'm supposed to be testing?

Thanks,

Vince
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