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diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst
index f51bb21d20e4..17779a2772e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst
@@ -16,15 +16,23 @@ Available fault injection capabilities
injects page allocation failures. (alloc_pages(), get_free_pages(), ...)
+- fail_usercopy
+
+ injects failures in user memory access functions. (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...)
+
- fail_futex
injects futex deadlock and uaddr fault errors.
+- fail_sunrpc
+
+ injects kernel RPC client and server failures.
+
- fail_make_request
injects disk IO errors on devices permitted by setting
/sys/block/<device>/make-it-fail or
- /sys/block/<device>/<partition>/make-it-fail. (generic_make_request())
+ /sys/block/<device>/<partition>/make-it-fail. (submit_bio_noacct())
- fail_mmc_request
@@ -74,8 +82,10 @@ configuration of fault-injection capabilities.
- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/times:
- specifies how many times failures may happen at most.
- A value of -1 means "no limit".
+ specifies how many times failures may happen at most. A value of -1
+ means "no limit". Note, though, that this file only accepts unsigned
+ values. So, if you want to specify -1, you better use 'printf' instead
+ of 'echo', e.g.: $ printf %#x -1 > times
- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/space:
@@ -122,16 +132,16 @@ configuration of fault-injection capabilities.
Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
- default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' won't inject failures into
- highmem/user allocations.
+ default is 'Y', setting it to 'N' will also inject failures into
+ highmem/user allocations (__GFP_HIGHMEM allocations).
- /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait:
- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-wait:
Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
- default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will inject failures
- only into non-sleep allocations (GFP_ATOMIC allocations).
+ default is 'Y', setting it to 'N' will also inject failures
+ into allocations that can sleep (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM allocations).
- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_page_alloc/min-order:
@@ -145,6 +155,27 @@ configuration of fault-injection capabilities.
default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will disable failure injections
when dealing with private (address space) futexes.
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_sunrpc/ignore-client-disconnect:
+
+ Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
+
+ default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will disable disconnect
+ injection on the RPC client.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_sunrpc/ignore-server-disconnect:
+
+ Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
+
+ default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will disable disconnect
+ injection on the RPC server.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_sunrpc/ignore-cache-wait:
+
+ Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
+
+ default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will disable cache wait
+ injection on the RPC server.
+
- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/inject:
Format: { 'function-name' | '!function-name' | '' }
@@ -163,11 +194,13 @@ configuration of fault-injection capabilities.
- ERRNO: retval must be -1 to -MAX_ERRNO (-4096).
- ERR_NULL: retval must be 0 or -1 to -MAX_ERRNO (-4096).
-- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/<functiuon-name>/retval:
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/<function-name>/retval:
- specifies the "error" return value to inject to the given
- function for given function. This will be created when
- user specifies new injection entry.
+ specifies the "error" return value to inject to the given function.
+ This will be created when the user specifies a new injection entry.
+ Note that this file only accepts unsigned values. So, if you want to
+ use a negative errno, you better use 'printf' instead of 'echo', e.g.:
+ $ printf %#x -12 > retval
Boot option
^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -177,6 +210,7 @@ use the boot option::
failslab=
fail_page_alloc=
+ fail_usercopy=
fail_make_request=
fail_futex=
mmc_core.fail_request=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
@@ -222,7 +256,7 @@ How to add new fault injection capability
- debugfs entries
- failslab, fail_page_alloc, and fail_make_request use this way.
+ failslab, fail_page_alloc, fail_usercopy, and fail_make_request use this way.
Helper functions:
fault_create_debugfs_attr(name, parent, attr);
@@ -250,10 +284,10 @@ Application Examples
echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter
echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability
echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval
- echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times
+ printf %#x -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space
echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose
- echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait
+ echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait
faulty_system()
{
@@ -304,11 +338,11 @@ Application Examples
echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter
echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability
echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval
- echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times
+ printf %#x -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space
echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose
- echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait
- echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-highmem
+ echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait
+ echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-highmem
echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/stacktrace-depth
trap "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
@@ -331,11 +365,11 @@ Application Examples
FAILTYPE=fail_function
FAILFUNC=open_ctree
echo $FAILFUNC > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/inject
- echo -12 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/$FAILFUNC/retval
+ printf %#x -12 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/$FAILFUNC/retval
echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter
echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval
- echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times
+ printf %#x -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose