Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next v2 4/4] error-injection: Support fault injection framework

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Tue Dec 26 2017 - 21:13:05 EST


On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 04:48:25PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Support in-kernel fault-injection framework via debugfs.
> This allows you to inject a conditional error to specified
> function using debugfs interfaces.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt | 5 +
> kernel/Makefile | 1
> kernel/fail_function.c | 169 +++++++++++++++++++++
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 10 +
> 4 files changed, 185 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 kernel/fail_function.c
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
> index 918972babcd8..6243a588dd71 100644
> --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
> @@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ o fail_mmc_request
> injects MMC data errors on devices permitted by setting
> debugfs entries under /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/fail_mmc_request
>
> +o fail_function
> +
> + injects error return on specific functions by setting debugfs entries
> + under /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function. No boot option supported.

I like it.
Could you document it a bit better?
In particular retval is configurable, but without an example no one
will be able to figure out how to use it.

I think you can drop RFC tag from the next version of these patches.
Thanks!