2016-07-29 18:19 GMT+03:00 Dave Jones <[email protected]>:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:05:14AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > I've just gotten back into running trinity on daily pulls of master, and
> it seems pretty horrific
> > right now. I can reproduce some kind of memory corruption within a couple
> minutes runtime.
> >
> > ,,,
> >
> > I'll work on narrowing down the exact syscalls needed to trigger this.
>
> Even limiting it to do just a simple syscall like execve (which fails most
> the time in trinity)
> triggers it, suggesting it's not syscall related, but the fact that trinity
> is forking/killing
> tons of processes at high rate is stressing something more fundamental.
>
> Given how easy this reproduces, I'll see if bisecting gives up something
> useful.
I suspect this is false positives due to changes in KASAN.
Bisection probably will point to
80a9201a5965f4715d5c09790862e0df84ce0614 ("mm, kasan: switch SLUB to
stackdepot, enable memory quarantine for SLUB)"
