* Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:04:35PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > While running syzkaller fuzzer I am seeing lots of the following
> > use-after-free reports. Unfortunately all my numerous attempts to
> > reproduce them in a controlled environment failed. They pop up during
> > fuzzing periodically (once in several hours in a single VM), but
> > whenever I try to stress-replay what happened in the VM before the
> > report, the use-after-free does not reproduce.
>
> Typical that :/
>
> > Can somebody knowledgeable in perf subsystem look at the report? Maybe
> > it is possible to figure out what happened based purely on the report.
> > I can pretty reliably test any proposed fixes.
>
> So I'm still going over the code, but meanwhile I tried reproducing this
> using the perf_fuzzer and some debug code, but no luck with that.
>
> Since you seem to be able to reproduce, could you do a run with the
> below patch in to see if it tickles something?
Btw., could we add more redundancy / debug code to the refcounting code? It
seems
to be a frequent source of very hard to find/fix races/bugs - so it should be
ripe
for some extra debug infrastructure ...
Thanks,
Ingo
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