Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 3/5] error-injection: Separate error-injection from kprobe

From: Josef Bacik
Date: Thu Jan 11 2018 - 11:40:24 EST


On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:50:24AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Since error-injection framework is not limited to be used
> by kprobes, nor bpf. Other kernel subsystems can use it
> freely for checking safeness of error-injection, e.g.
> livepatch, ftrace etc.
> So this separate error-injection framework from kprobes.
>
> Some differences has been made:
>
> - "kprobe" word is removed from any APIs/structures.
> - BPF_ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() is renamed to
> ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() since it is not limited for BPF too.
> - CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION is the config item of this
> feature. It is automatically enabled if the arch supports
> error injection feature for kprobe or ftrace etc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx>

Thanks,

Josef