Re: task_ctx_sched_out WARN_ON triggered.

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:47:07AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> This is my fuzz tester, but this looks to be part of normal operation,
> not actually fuzzing a syscall. This looks to be the bit that
> sets the task_comm name in the child process to 'trinity-cN'.  Which appears to have
> succeeded judging by the Comm:, but the follow-on perf stuff seems to
> be screwed up.
> 
> WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 13500 at kernel/events/core.c:2379 task_ctx_sched_out+0x6b/0x80()
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> CPU: 1 PID: 13500 Comm: trinity-c5 Not tainted 3.13.0-rc7+ #14 
>  ffffffff81a240ac ffff88002e0c7df8 ffffffff816de2ee 0000000000000000
>  ffff88002e0c7e30 ffffffff81052ddd ffff88024d0975f8 ffff880214d7bb10
>  0000000000000282 ffff88015b3b24c0 ffff880214d7bb10 ffff88002e0c7e40
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff816de2ee>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
>  [<ffffffff81052ddd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
>  [<ffffffff81052eba>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
>  [<ffffffff81128d5b>] task_ctx_sched_out+0x6b/0x80
>  [<ffffffff8112ba78>] perf_event_comm+0x108/0x260
>  [<ffffffff8112b970>] ? perf_event_fork+0x20/0x20
>  [<ffffffff811a3815>] ? set_task_comm+0x25/0xc0
>  [<ffffffff811a383f>] set_task_comm+0x4f/0xc0
>  [<ffffffff8106b039>] SyS_prctl+0x229/0x3d0
>  [<ffffffff816f0b24>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
> ---[ end trace d6e98e080907af47 ]---
> 
> 
> 2379         if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx != cpuctx->task_ctx))
> 2380                 return;

Hmm, you wouldn't happen to have the perf_event_attr for all active
events, would you?