linux-kernel - Re: hit a KASan bug related to Perf during stress test

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Message-ID: <20161024112732.GJ3102@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:27:32 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Ni, BaoleX" <baolex.ni@...el.com>,
        "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "acme@...nel.org" <acme@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com" 
        <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Liu, Chuansheng" <chuansheng.liu@...el.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: hit a KASan bug related to Perf during stress test

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 01:15:27PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> How about the trivial fix below?
> 
> Oleg.
> 
> --- x/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ x/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ static u32 perf_event_pid(struct perf_ev
>  	if (event->parent)
>  		event = event->parent;
>  
> -	return task_tgid_nr_ns(p, event->ns);
> +	return pid_alive(p) ? task_tgid_nr_ns(p, event->ns) : 0;
>  }

Also, now we get a (few) sample(s) with a different pid:tid than prior
samples and not matching the sched_switch() events.

I can imagine that being somewhat confusing for people/tools.

Acme/Jolsa, any idea if that will bugger perf-report?