On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 2. Ability to control this from a separate config
> option.
>
> It's still not that clear to me why is this such a
> hard requirement. If a distro wants to force specific
> boot time options, why isn't CONFIG_CMDLINE sufficient?
So, try this and turn it on with CONFIG_CMDLINE. But I'm not a
blogger and I will not write a blog post about it as James Bottomley
suggests :-)
- so very few users will use it.
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.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt | 7 +++++
mm/util.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt 2018-04-28 01:01:25.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt 2018-04-28 01:01:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ o fail_page_alloc
injects page allocation failures. (alloc_pages(), get_free_pages(), ...)
+o kvmalloc_fallback
+
+ makes the function kvmalloc randomly fall back to vmalloc. This could be used
+ to detects bugs such as using DMA-API on the result of kvmalloc or freeing
+ the result of kvmalloc with free.
+
o fail_futex
injects futex deadlock and uaddr fault errors.
@@ -167,6 +173,7 @@ use the boot option:
failslab=
fail_page_alloc=
+ kvmalloc_fallback=
fail_make_request=
fail_futex=
mmc_core.fail_request=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
Index: linux-2.6/mm/util.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/util.c 2018-04-28 01:01:25.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/util.c 2018-04-28 01:03:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
+#include <linux/fault-inject.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
@@ -377,6 +378,29 @@ unsigned long vm_mmap(struct file *file,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap);
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION
+
+static DECLARE_FAULT_ATTR(kvmalloc_fallback);
+
+static int __init setup_kvmalloc_fallback(char *str)
+{
+ kvmalloc_fallback.verbose = 0;
+ return setup_fault_attr(&kvmalloc_fallback, str);
+}
+
+__setup("kvmalloc_fallback=", setup_kvmalloc_fallback);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
+static int __init kvmalloc_fallback_debugfs_init(void)
+{
+ fault_create_debugfs_attr("kvmalloc_fallback", NULL, &kvmalloc_fallback);
+ return 0;
+}
+late_initcall(kvmalloc_fallback_debugfs_init);
+#endif
+
+#endif
+
/**
* kvmalloc_node - attempt to allocate physically contiguous memory, but upon
* failure, fall back to non-contiguous (vmalloc) allocation.
@@ -404,6 +428,11 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t f
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL);
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION
+ if (should_fail(&kvmalloc_fallback, size))
+ goto do_vmalloc;
+#endif
+
/*
* We want to attempt a large physically contiguous block first because
* it is less likely to fragment multiple larger blocks and therefore
@@ -427,6 +456,7 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t f
if (ret || size <= PAGE_SIZE)
return ret;
+do_vmalloc: __maybe_unused
return __vmalloc_node_flags_caller(size, node, flags,
__builtin_return_address(0));
}
