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Message-ID: <20210518104029.GE82842@C02TD0UTHF1T.local>
Date:   Tue, 18 May 2021 11:40:29 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+0fb24f56fa707081e4f2@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        acme@...nel.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        andrii@...nel.org, ast@...nel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        daniel@...earbox.net, john.fastabend@...il.com, jolsa@...hat.com,
        kafai@...com, kpsingh@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, namhyung@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        songliubraving@...com, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, yhs@...com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] WARNING in __perf_install_in_context

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 01:27:49PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 03:56:22AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > syzbot found the following issue on:
> > 
> > HEAD commit:    18a3c5f7 Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub..
> > git tree:       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git fixes
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1662c153d00000
> > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=b8ac1fe5995f69d7
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0fb24f56fa707081e4f2
> > userspace arch: riscv64
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
> > 
> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+0fb24f56fa707081e4f2@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> > 
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 8643 at kernel/events/core.c:2781 __perf_install_in_context+0x1c0/0x47c kernel/events/core.c:2781
> > Modules linked in:
> > CPU: 1 PID: 8643 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc8-syzkaller-00011-g18a3c5f7abfd #0
> > Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
> 
> How serious should I take this thing? ARM64 and x86_64 don't show these
> errors.

I think I've seen this in the past on arm64, but very rarely, and never
with a consistent reproducer.

I'm currently fuyzzing v5.13-rc1, and haven't hit anything like this
after ~5 days.

Thanks,
Mark.