From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221211115218.2e6e289bb85f8cf53c11aa97@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u --- Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++ include/asm-generic/error-injection.h | 6 +- 2 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst index 17779a2772e5..da6c5796b1f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst @@ -233,6 +233,71 @@ 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 ----------------------------------------- diff --git a/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h b/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h index c0b9d3217ed9..b05253f68eaa 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h @@ -19,8 +19,10 @@ struct pt_regs; #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION /* - * Whitelist generating macro. Specify functions which can be - * error-injectable using this macro. + * Whitelist generating macro. Specify functions which can be error-injectable + * using this macro. If you unsure what is required for the error-injectable + * functions, please read Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst + * 'Error Injectable Functions' section. */ #define ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION(fname, _etype) \ static struct error_injection_entry __used \
