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net: add support for netdev notifier error injection
authorNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:45:28 +0000 (13:45 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 1 Dec 2015 20:31:57 +0000 (15:31 -0500)
commit02fff96a79775b7adc34eb599fc6b0476ccda520
treeb8b5ccf5a9c21f47ef78f563ff8c6c734567be64
parent27a70af3f4cf633a1b86c0ac7b426e2fe16ad2e5
net: add support for netdev notifier error injection

This module allows to insert errors in some of netdevice's notifier
events. All network drivers use these notifiers to signal various events
and to check if they are allowed, e.g. PRECHANGEMTU and CHANGEMTU
afterwards. Until recently I had to run failure tests by injecting
a custom module, but now this infrastructure makes it trivial to test
these failure paths. Some of the recent bugs I fixed were found using
this module.
Here's an example:
 $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
 $ echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
 $ ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

CC: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt
lib/Kconfig.debug
lib/Makefile
lib/netdev-notifier-error-inject.c [new file with mode: 0644]