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SubjectRe: perf: fuzzer crashes immediately on AMD system
> > > > 
> > > > perf stat -a -e amd_nb/config=0x37,config1=0x20/ /bin/ls
> amd_uncore_find_online_sibling()
> function is broken.

and that's the problem. uncore_find_online_sibling() does all kinds of
wrong things including sticking active uncore structures in
uncore->free_when_cpu_online

Then uncore_online() comes along and frees those structures.

Then some other part of the kernel comes and re-uses the free'd data.

Then when we try to start an event, all of the fields are invalid because
the uncore pointer is pointing to re-used data.

I don't have a patch because I am not 100% clear on what
uncore_find_online_sibling() is doing in the first place.

Vince

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