[PATCH] fault injection: stacktrace filtering

This patch provides stacktrace filtering feature.

The stacktrace filter allows failing only for the caller you are
interested in.

For example someone may want to inject kmalloc() failures into
only e100 module. they want to inject not only direct kmalloc() call,
but also indirect allocation, too.

- e100_poll --> netif_receive_skb --> packet_rcv_spkt --> skb_clone
  --> kmem_cache_alloc

This patch enables to detect function calls like this by stacktrace
and inject failures. The script Documentaion/fault-injection/failmodule.sh
helps it.

The range of text section of loaded e100 is expected to be
[/sys/module/e100/sections/.text, /sys/module/e100/sections/.exit.text)

So failmodule.sh stores these values into /debug/failslab/address-start
and /debug/failslab/address-end. The maximum stacktrace depth is specified
by /debug/failslab/stacktrace-depth.

Please see the example that demonstrates how to inject slab allocation
failures only for a specific module
in Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt

[dwm@meer.net: reject failure if any caller lies within specified range]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fault-inject.h b/include/linux/fault-inject.h
index a525f9b9f015..9bb584e89399 100644
--- a/include/linux/fault-inject.h
+++ b/include/linux/fault-inject.h
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ struct fault_attr {
 	atomic_t space;
 	unsigned long verbose;
 	u32 task_filter;
+	unsigned long stacktrace_depth;
+	unsigned long require_start;
+	unsigned long require_end;
+	unsigned long reject_start;
+	unsigned long reject_end;
 
 	unsigned long count;
 
@@ -32,6 +37,11 @@ struct fault_attr {
 		struct dentry *space_file;
 		struct dentry *verbose_file;
 		struct dentry *task_filter_file;
+		struct dentry *stacktrace_depth_file;
+		struct dentry *require_start_file;
+		struct dentry *require_end_file;
+		struct dentry *reject_start_file;
+		struct dentry *reject_end_file;
 	} dentries;
 
 #endif
@@ -40,6 +50,8 @@ struct fault_attr {
 #define FAULT_ATTR_INITIALIZER {				\
 		.interval = 1,					\
 		.times = ATOMIC_INIT(1),			\
+		.require_end = ULONG_MAX,			\
+		.stacktrace_depth = 32,				\
 	}
 
 #define DECLARE_FAULT_ATTR(name) struct fault_attr name = FAULT_ATTR_INITIALIZER