Re: perf/ring-buffer: Undefined behaviour in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:685:22

From	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: perf/ring-buffer: Undefined behaviour in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:685:22
Date	2016-01-19 15:40 +0100
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On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 03:55:13PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, running the latest -next
> kernel, I've hit the following warning:
> 
> [ 3494.030114] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:685:22
> [ 3494.030647] shift exponent -1 is negative

That's rb->page_order == -1, which should 'never' happen, curious!

Funny though that rb::page_order is the exact field _after_ rb::work, ho
humm.

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Re: perf/ring-buffer: Undefined behaviour in  kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:685:22 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-19 15:40 +0100
  Re: perf/ring-buffer: Undefined behaviour in  kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:685:22 Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-01-22 00:40 +0100
  Re: perf/ring-buffer: Undefined behaviour in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:685:22 Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 13:50 +0100

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