Re: [PATCH 0/2][v2] Add the ability to do BPF directed error injection

[David Miller]

From: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:45:55 -0400

> v1->v2:
> - moved things around to make sure that bpf_override_return could really only be
>   used for an ftrace kprobe.
> - killed the special return values from trace_call_bpf.
> - renamed pc_modified to bpf_kprobe_state so bpf_override_return could tell if
>   it was being called from an ftrace kprobe context.
> - reworked the logic in kprobe_perf_func to take advantage of bpf_kprobe_state.
> - updated the test as per Alexei's review.
> 
> A lot of our error paths are not well tested because we have no good way of
> injecting errors generically.  Some subystems (block, memory) have ways to
> inject errors, but they are random so it's hard to get reproduceable results.
> 
> With BPF we can add determinism to our error injection.  We can use kprobes and
> other things to verify we are injecting errors at the exact case we are trying
> to test.  This patch gives us the tool to actual do the error injection part.
> It is very simple, we just set the return value of the pt_regs we're given to
> whatever we provide, and then override the PC with a dummy function that simply
> returns.
> 
> Right now this only works on x86, but it would be simple enough to expand to
> other architectures.  Thanks,

This appears to moreso target the tracing tree than the networking tree.

Let me know if that's not the case and I should be the one intergrating
these changes.

Thanks.