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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options
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On 04/25/2018 01:57 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>> On 04/25/2018 01:02 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
>>> Subject: [PATCH v4] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options
>>>
>>> This patch introduces a fault-injection option "kvmalloc_fallback". This
>>> option makes kvmalloc randomly fall back to vmalloc.
>>>
>>> Unfortunatelly, some kernel code has bugs - it uses kvmalloc and then
>>
>> Unfortunately,
>
> OK - here I fixed the typos:
>
>
> From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options
>
> This patch introduces a fault-injection option "kvmalloc_fallback". This
> option makes kvmalloc randomly fall back to vmalloc.
>
> Unfortunately, some kernel code has bugs - it uses kvmalloc and then
> uses DMA-API on the returned memory or frees it with kfree. Such bugs were
> found in the virtio-net driver, dm-integrity or RHEL7 powerpc-specific
> code. This options helps to test for these bugs.
>
> The patch introduces a config option FAIL_KVMALLOC_FALLBACK_PROBABILITY.
> It can be enabled in distribution debug kernels, so that kvmalloc abuse
> can be tested by the users. The default can be overridden with
> "kvmalloc_fallback" parameter or in /sys/kernel/debug/kvmalloc_fallback/.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
>
> ---
> Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt | 7 +++++
> include/linux/fault-inject.h | 9 +++---
> kernel/futex.c | 2 -
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 15 +++++++++++
> mm/failslab.c | 2 -
> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 -
> mm/util.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 7 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> # Documentation and Kconfig only

thanks.
--
~Randy

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