From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 005747526d4f3c2ec995891e95cb7625161022f9 ] Fault injection uses debugfs in a way that the provided values via sysfs are interpreted as u64. Providing negative numbers results in an error: /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function# echo -1 > times sh: write error: Invalid argument Update the docs and examples to use "printf %#x <val>" in these cases. For "retval", reword the paragraph a little and fix a typo. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210603125841.27436-1-wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: d472cf797c4e ("debugfs: fix error when writing negative value to atomic_t debugfs file") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- .../fault-injection/fault-injection.rst | 24 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst index f51bb21d20e4..e4056dc51e7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst @@ -74,8 +74,10 @@ configuration of fault-injection capabilities. - /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/times: - specifies how many times failures may happen at most. - A value of -1 means "no limit". + specifies how many times failures may happen at most. A value of -1 + means "no limit". Note, though, that this file only accepts unsigned + values. So, if you want to specify -1, you better use 'printf' instead + of 'echo', e.g.: $ printf %#x -1 > times - /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/space: @@ -163,11 +165,13 @@ configuration of fault-injection capabilities. - ERRNO: retval must be -1 to -MAX_ERRNO (-4096). - ERR_NULL: retval must be 0 or -1 to -MAX_ERRNO (-4096). -- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/<functiuon-name>/retval: +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/<function-name>/retval: - specifies the "error" return value to inject to the given - function for given function. This will be created when - user specifies new injection entry. + specifies the "error" return value to inject to the given function. + This will be created when the user specifies a new injection entry. + Note that this file only accepts unsigned values. So, if you want to + use a negative errno, you better use 'printf' instead of 'echo', e.g.: + $ printf %#x -12 > retval Boot option ^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -250,7 +254,7 @@ Application Examples echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval - echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times + printf %#x -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait @@ -304,7 +308,7 @@ Application Examples echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval - echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times + printf %#x -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait @@ -331,11 +335,11 @@ Application Examples FAILTYPE=fail_function FAILFUNC=open_ctree echo $FAILFUNC > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/inject - echo -12 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/$FAILFUNC/retval + printf %#x -12 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/$FAILFUNC/retval echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval - echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times + printf %#x -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose -- 2.35.1
