Re: [PATCH 1/2] bpf: add a bpf_override_function helper

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 11/07/2017 09:28 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
> From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx>
>
> Error injection is sloppy and very ad-hoc.  BPF could fill this niche
> perfectly with it's kprobe functionality.  We could make sure errors are
> only triggered in specific call chains that we care about with very
> specific situations.  Accomplish this with the bpf_override_funciton
> helper.  This will modify the probe'd callers return value to the
> specified value and set the PC to an override function that simply
> returns, bypassing the originally probed function.  This gives us a nice
> clean way to implement systematic error injection for all of our code
> paths.
>
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx>

BPF bits:

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>