On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:03:58AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, running latest -next 
> kernel
> I got the following spew.
> 
> The open() and release() callbacks in the traces below point to 
> fs/sysfs/bin.c.

Any hint as to which sysfs binary file you were accessing when this
happened?

> [  719.288925] 
> =============================================================================
> [  719.290663] BUG kmalloc-4096 (Tainted: G        W   ): Redzone overwritten
> [  719.291764] 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [  719.291764]
> [  719.294527] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> [  719.294527] INFO: 0xffff88006d1a5520-0xffff88006d1a5520. First byte 0x0 
> instead of 0xcc
> [  719.294527] INFO: Allocated in open+0xb8/0x190 age=18922 cpu=1 pid=7095
> [  719.294527]        __slab_alloc+0x622/0x6d0
> [  719.294527]        kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x123/0x2c0
> [  719.294527]        open+0xb8/0x190
> [  719.294527]        do_dentry_open+0x229/0x330
> [  719.294527]        finish_open+0x54/0x70
> [  719.294527]        do_last+0x56c/0x790
> [  719.294527]        path_openat+0xbe/0x490
> [  719.294527]        do_filp_open+0x44/0xa0
> [  719.294527]        do_sys_open+0x133/0x1d0
> [  719.294527]        sys_open+0x1c/0x20
> [  719.294527]        tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
> [  719.294527] INFO: Freed in seq_release+0x18/0x30 age=18947 cpu=0 pid=31203
> [  719.294527]        __slab_free+0x3c/0x590
> [  719.294527]        kfree+0x2cb/0x2e0
> [  719.294527]        seq_release+0x18/0x30
> [  719.294527]        single_release+0x24/0x40
> [  719.294527]        proc_reg_release+0xed/0x110
> [  719.294527]        __fput+0x122/0x2d0
> [  719.294527]        ____fput+0x9/0x10
> [  719.294527]        task_work_run+0xbe/0x100
> [  719.294527]        do_notify_resume+0x7e/0xa0
> [  719.294527]        int_signal+0x12/0x17
> [  719.294527] INFO: Slab 0xffffea0001b46800 objects=7 used=7 fp=0x          
> (null) flags=0x1ffc0000004081
> [  719.294527] INFO: Object 0xffff88006d1a4520 @offset=17696 fp=0x          
> (null)

Hm, where is sysfs in this traceback?  I don't see it mentioned anywhere
in this report, what am I missing?

thanks,

greg k-h
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