On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 03:50:41PM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote: > On 10/14/24 15:50, Breno Leitao wrote: > > Introduce a fault injection mechanism to force skb reallocation. The > > primary goal is to catch bugs related to pointer invalidation after > > potential skb reallocation. > > > > The fault injection mechanism aims to identify scenarios where callers > > retain pointers to various headers in the skb but fail to reload these > > pointers after calling a function that may reallocate the data. This > > type of bug can lead to memory corruption or crashes if the old, > > now-invalid pointers are used. > > > > By forcing reallocation through fault injection, we can stress-test code > > paths and ensure proper pointer management after potential skb > > reallocations. > > > > Add a hook for fault injection in the following functions: > > > > * pskb_trim_rcsum() > > * pskb_may_pull_reason() > > * pskb_trim() > > > > As the other fault injection mechanism, protect it under a debug Kconfig > > called CONFIG_FAIL_SKB_FORCE_REALLOC. > > > > This patch was *heavily* inspired by Jakub's proposal from: > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240719174140.47a868e6@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > CC: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> > > Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I'm sorry to nit-pick, but checkpatch laments that the new command line > argument lacks documentation in > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, and I feel that could be > actually useful. > > With that, feel free to include my ack in the next revision, Thanks Paolo, I will send a new updated version soon.
