Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:25:55 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options |
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On Thu 26-04-18 18:52:05, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: [...] > > But assuming it's important to control this kind of > > fault injection to be controlled from > > a dedicated menuconfig option, why not the rest of > > faults? > > The injected faults cause damage to the user, so there's no point to > enable them by default. vmalloc fallback should not cause any damage > (assuming that the code is correctly written).
But you want to find those bugs which would BUG_ON easier, so there is a risk of harm IIUC and this is not much different than other fault injecting paths. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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