linux-kernel - Re: perf 6.9-1 (archlinux) crashes during recording of cycles + raw

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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 22:04:42 +0200
From: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: perf 6.9-1 (archlinux) crashes during recording of cycles +
 raw_syscalls

On Dienstag, 4. Juni 2024 16:12:36 MESZ Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 10:50:00AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 01:44:18PM +0200, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > > the following command crashes perf for me, is this still an issue
> > > upstream and should I report it to arch for backporting? I cannot build
> > > the official perf/ core branch, so I am afraid I cannot test it myself
> > > there:
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > sudo /usr/bin/perf record -z --call-graph dwarf -e cycles -e
> > > raw_syscalls:sys_enter ls
> > > ...
> > > [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
> > > malloc(): invalid next size (unsorted)
> > > Aborted
> > > ```
> > > Backtrace with GDB + debuginfod:
> > > ```
> > > malloc(): invalid next size (unsorted)
> > 
> > I reproduced this all the way back to 6.8, trying to bisect now, thanks
> > for the report,
> 
> Can you please try with the attached and perhaps provide your Tested-by?

Works a charm, thanks

Tested-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>

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