Re: trinity finds ftrace/perf bug. Film at 11.

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 02:38:49PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> > The current one I'm staring at is this from LIST_DEBUG..
> > 
> > list_del corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffff88000fb812b0), but was ffff88000fb812b0. (next=ffff88009df8b7b0).
> > 
> > The sharp eyed will notice that those first two addresses are actually the same.
> > So we matched the next->prev != prev test, but at the time we got to the printk that follows
> > in the WARN, the inverse was true. Smells like a race of some kind.
> 
> FWIW, I've not given up on this. I've found one bug in the list_entry
> handling already -- although not this one.
> 
> Today I hit a more revealing error:
> 
> [ 8348.150303] list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffff88042839c108, but was 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
> 
> And as we all know that 6b is POISON_FREE, so we're staring at a
> use-after-free here.
> 
> Brain did give out for today though.. more staring at reference counts
> tomorrow.
> 
> The sad thing is that reproduction takes forever on my machine; I need 
> to let trinity run for a good hour and then ^C abort the run. Only then 
> will I hit it fairly reliably.

Maybe run trinity in an infinite loop and also run this script in the 
background:

	while :; do killall -SIGINT trinity; sleep $[RANDOM/500]; done &

this will Ctrl-C trinity every 0...60 seconds, randomized, average 30 
seconds runtime.

Thanks,

	Ingo