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Subject: Re: perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:47:03 -0800
To: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
CC: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
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Ok, so the obvious question is what is at that kernel address?

On February 24, 2014 8:34:30 AM PST, Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Vince Weaver wrote:
>
>> Just touching the mmap page with a write of a single byte (it doesn't
>
>> matter where) is enough to trigger the bug.
>
>OK, investigating this more.
>
>perf_fuzzer-2971  [000]   154.944114: page_fault_user:      
>address=0xf7729000 ip=0x41efab error_code=0x6
>perf_fuzzer-2971  [000]   154.944118: function:             
>ip=0xffffffff810d40e7 parent_ip=0xffffffff810d0840
>perf_fuzzer-2971  [000]   154.944119: function:             
>ip=0xffffffff812a91a5 parent_ip=0xffffffff81013ff5
>perf_fuzzer-2971  [000]   154.944120: function:             
>ip=0xffffffff8153837c parent_ip=0xffffffff81535432
>perf_fuzzer-2971  [000]   154.944121: page_fault_kernel:    
>address=0x22e0 ip=0xffffffff812a7d5c error_code=0x0
>
>It looks like there are two page faults.  The first is caused by the
>user
>code accessing the mmap'd page.  It looks sort of normal and what you'd
>expect if the perf_event mmap ring buffer is being accessed for the
>first
>time.
>
>What follows is a kernel page fault, and this is the one where for 
>whatever reason CR2 has obtained the value of the userspace RBP
>register.
>
>Vince

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