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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	acme@ghostprotocols.net, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	price@mit.edu
Subject: Re: BUG_ON drivers/char/random.c:986 (Was: perf: use after free in perf_remove_from_context)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 12:24:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53778D40.5020203@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140517021840.GA5513@thunk.org>

On 05/16/2014 10:18 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 05:46:22PM -0700, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> > This should do the trick:
>> > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/zero bs=67108707
>> > 
>> > I suspect ee1de406ba6eb1 ("random: simplify accounting logic") as the
>> > culprit.
> Yep, that it's it.  Thanks for noticing this so quickly!  I'll push
> the following patch to Linus.

Peter, could you describe the infrastructure you're running on? I don't
think Dave or myself have ever hit this issue, and I wonder what made you
stumble on it.


Thanks,
Sasha

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-17 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-12 15:42 perf: use after free in perf_remove_from_context Sasha Levin
2014-05-14 16:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-14 16:32   ` Sasha Levin
2014-05-14 16:35     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-14 16:38       ` Sasha Levin
2014-05-14 16:52         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-14 17:09           ` Sasha Levin
2014-05-14 17:20             ` Dave Jones
2014-05-14 18:37               ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-28 23:52       ` Sasha Levin
2014-05-29  2:31         ` Sasha Levin
2014-05-29  7:59           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-29  7:57         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-29 14:47           ` Sasha Levin
2014-05-29 15:07             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-29 16:44               ` Sasha Levin
2014-05-29 16:50                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-29 16:52                   ` Sasha Levin
2014-05-29 17:00                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-29 22:37                     ` Sasha Levin
2014-06-05 14:38                     ` [tip:perf/core] perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context() tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-15 18:11 ` eventpoll __list_del_entry corruption (was: perf: use after free in perf_remove_from_context) Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-15 18:16   ` eventpoll __list_del_entry corruption Sasha Levin
2014-06-16  9:44     ` Eric Wong
2014-05-21  8:25   ` BUG at /usr/src/linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c:202 (was: perf: use after free in perf_remove_from_context) Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-21 13:02     ` BUG at /usr/src/linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c:202 Sasha Levin
2014-06-03 15:07   ` eventpoll __list_del_entry corruption Jason Baron
2014-06-03 15:11     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-16 15:34 ` BUG_ON drivers/char/random.c:986 (Was: perf: use after free in perf_remove_from_context) Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-16 16:06   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-16 16:21     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-17  0:46       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-05-17  2:18         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-17 16:24           ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2014-05-17 17:00             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-15  4:36           ` BUG_ON drivers/char/random.c:986 Dave Jones
2014-07-15 20:29             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-07-16  8:33               ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-07-16 19:18                 ` [PATCH] random: check for increase of entropy_count because of signed conversion Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-07-18 21:25                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-07-18 21:43                     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-07-18 21:50                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-07-18 22:07                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-07-18 23:35                         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-07-19  5:42                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-07-19  6:20                             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa

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