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diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst index eb9c2d9a4f5f..70380a2a01b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst @@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ Available fault injection capabilities status code is NVME_SC_INVALID_OPCODE with no retry. The status code and retry flag can be set via the debugfs. +- Null test block driver fault injection + + inject IO timeouts by setting config items under + /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/timeout_inject, + inject requeue requests by setting config items under + /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/requeue_inject, and + inject init_hctx() errors by setting config items under + /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/init_hctx_fault_inject. Configure fault-injection capabilities behavior ----------------------------------------------- @@ -83,9 +91,7 @@ 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". 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 + means "no limit". - /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/space: @@ -169,6 +175,13 @@ configuration of fault-injection capabilities. 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' | '' } @@ -226,6 +239,71 @@ proc entries This feature is intended for systematic testing of faults in a single system call. See an example below. + +Error Injectable Functions +-------------------------- + +This part is for the kernel developers considering to add a function to +ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() macro. + +Requirements for the Error Injectable Functions +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Since the function-level error injection forcibly changes the code path +and returns an error even if the input and conditions are proper, this can +cause unexpected kernel crash if you allow error injection on the function +which is NOT error injectable. Thus, you (and reviewers) must ensure; + +- The function returns an error code if it fails, and the callers must check + it correctly (need to recover from it). + +- The function does not execute any code which can change any state before + the first error return. The state includes global or local, or input + variable. For example, clear output address storage (e.g. `*ret = NULL`), + increments/decrements counter, set a flag, preempt/irq disable or get + a lock (if those are recovered before returning error, that will be OK.) + +The first requirement is important, and it will result in that the release +(free objects) functions are usually harder to inject errors than allocate +functions. If errors of such release functions are not correctly handled +it will cause a memory leak easily (the caller will confuse that the object +has been released or corrupted.) + +The second one is for the caller which expects the function should always +does something. Thus if the function error injection skips whole of the +function, the expectation is betrayed and causes an unexpected error. + +Type of the Error Injectable Functions +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Each error injectable functions will have the error type specified by the +ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() macro. You have to choose it carefully if you add +a new error injectable function. If the wrong error type is chosen, the +kernel may crash because it may not be able to handle the error. +There are 4 types of errors defined in include/asm-generic/error-injection.h + +EI_ETYPE_NULL + This function will return `NULL` if it fails. e.g. return an allocateed + object address. + +EI_ETYPE_ERRNO + This function will return an `-errno` error code if it fails. e.g. return + -EINVAL if the input is wrong. This will include the functions which will + return an address which encodes `-errno` by ERR_PTR() macro. + +EI_ETYPE_ERRNO_NULL + This function will return an `-errno` or `NULL` if it fails. If the caller + of this function checks the return value with IS_ERR_OR_NULL() macro, this + type will be appropriate. + +EI_ETYPE_TRUE + This function will return `true` (non-zero positive value) if it fails. + +If you specifies a wrong type, for example, EI_TYPE_ERRNO for the function +which returns an allocated object, it may cause a problem because the returned +value is not an object address and the caller can not access to the address. + + How to add new fault injection capability ----------------------------------------- @@ -277,7 +355,7 @@ Application Examples echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval - printf %#x -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times + echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait @@ -331,7 +409,7 @@ Application Examples echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval - printf %#x -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times + echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait @@ -362,7 +440,7 @@ Application Examples echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval - printf %#x -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times + echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose |