On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 10:20:31AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I think the 'pathname' part may actually be entirely a red herring, > and it's the underlying access itself that just picks up a random > pointer from a stack that now contains something different. And KASAN > didn't notice the stale stack access itself, because the stack slot is > still valid - it's just no longer the original 'verifier' allocation. > > Or *something* like that. > > None of this looks even remotely new, though - the code seems to go > back to 2009. Have you just changed what you're testing to trigger > these things? No idea why it only just showed up, but it isn't 100% reproducable either. A month or so ago I did disable the V4 code on the server completely (as I was using v3 everywhere else), so maybe I started hitting a fallback path somewhere. *shrug* Dave
