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authorMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>2022-12-12 05:46:54 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-03 09:50:00 +0300
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docs: fault-injection: add requirements of error injectable functions
Add a section about the requirements of the error injectable functions and the type of errors. Since this section must be read before using ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() macro, that section is referred from the comment of the macro too. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/167081321427.387937.15475445689482551048.stgit@devnote3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221211115218.2e6e289bb85f8cf53c11aa97@kernel.org/T/#u Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -231,6 +231,71 @@ 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 kenrel 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
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