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

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Wed Nov 01 2017 - 13:18:33 EST


On 11/1/17 10:00 AM, 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.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx>

Both bpf and tracing bits look great to me.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>