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diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..70380a2a01 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst @@ -0,0 +1,551 @@ +=========================================== +Fault injection capabilities infrastructure +=========================================== + +See also drivers/md/md-faulty.c and "every_nth" module option for scsi_debug. + + +Available fault injection capabilities +-------------------------------------- + +- failslab + + injects slab allocation failures. (kmalloc(), kmem_cache_alloc(), ...) + +- fail_page_alloc + + injects page allocation failures. (alloc_pages(), get_free_pages(), ...) + +- fail_usercopy + + injects failures in user memory access functions. (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...) + +- fail_futex + + injects futex deadlock and uaddr fault errors. + +- fail_sunrpc + + injects kernel RPC client and server failures. + +- fail_make_request + + injects disk IO errors on devices permitted by setting + /sys/block/<device>/make-it-fail or + /sys/block/<device>/<partition>/make-it-fail. (submit_bio_noacct()) + +- fail_mmc_request + + injects MMC data errors on devices permitted by setting + debugfs entries under /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/fail_mmc_request + +- fail_function + + injects error return on specific functions, which are marked by + ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() macro, by setting debugfs entries + under /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function. No boot option supported. + +- NVMe fault injection + + inject NVMe status code and retry flag on devices permitted by setting + debugfs entries under /sys/kernel/debug/nvme*/fault_inject. The default + status code is NVME_SC_INVALID_OPCODE with no retry. The status code and + retry flag can be set via the debugfs. + +- Null test block driver fault injection + + inject IO timeouts by setting config items under + /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/timeout_inject, + inject requeue requests by setting config items under + /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/requeue_inject, and + inject init_hctx() errors by setting config items under + /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/init_hctx_fault_inject. + +Configure fault-injection capabilities behavior +----------------------------------------------- + +debugfs entries +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +fault-inject-debugfs kernel module provides some debugfs entries for runtime +configuration of fault-injection capabilities. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/probability: + + likelihood of failure injection, in percent. + + Format: <percent> + + Note that one-failure-per-hundred is a very high error rate + for some testcases. Consider setting probability=100 and configure + /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/interval for such testcases. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/interval: + + specifies the interval between failures, for calls to + should_fail() that pass all the other tests. + + Note that if you enable this, by setting interval>1, you will + probably want to set probability=100. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/times: + + specifies how many times failures may happen at most. A value of -1 + means "no limit". + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/space: + + specifies an initial resource "budget", decremented by "size" + on each call to should_fail(,size). Failure injection is + suppressed until "space" reaches zero. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/verbose + + Format: { 0 | 1 | 2 } + + specifies the verbosity of the messages when failure is + injected. '0' means no messages; '1' will print only a single + log line per failure; '2' will print a call trace too -- useful + to debug the problems revealed by fault injection. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/task-filter: + + Format: { 'Y' | 'N' } + + A value of 'N' disables filtering by process (default). + Any positive value limits failures to only processes indicated by + /proc/<pid>/make-it-fail==1. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/require-start, + /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/require-end, + /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/reject-start, + /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/reject-end: + + specifies the range of virtual addresses tested during + stacktrace walking. Failure is injected only if some caller + in the walked stacktrace lies within the required range, and + none lies within the rejected range. + Default required range is [0,ULONG_MAX) (whole of virtual address space). + Default rejected range is [0,0). + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/stacktrace-depth: + + specifies the maximum stacktrace depth walked during search + for a caller within [require-start,require-end) OR + [reject-start,reject-end). + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-highmem: + + Format: { 'Y' | 'N' } + + default is 'Y', setting it to 'N' will also inject failures into + highmem/user allocations (__GFP_HIGHMEM allocations). + +- /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait: +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-wait: + + Format: { 'Y' | 'N' } + + default is 'Y', setting it to 'N' will also inject failures + into allocations that can sleep (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM allocations). + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_page_alloc/min-order: + + specifies the minimum page allocation order to be injected + failures. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_futex/ignore-private: + + Format: { 'Y' | 'N' } + + default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will disable failure injections + when dealing with private (address space) futexes. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_sunrpc/ignore-client-disconnect: + + Format: { 'Y' | 'N' } + + default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will disable disconnect + injection on the RPC client. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_sunrpc/ignore-server-disconnect: + + Format: { 'Y' | 'N' } + + default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will disable disconnect + injection on the RPC server. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_sunrpc/ignore-cache-wait: + + Format: { 'Y' | 'N' } + + default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will disable cache wait + injection on the RPC server. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/inject: + + Format: { 'function-name' | '!function-name' | '' } + + specifies the target function of error injection by name. + If the function name leads '!' prefix, given function is + removed from injection list. If nothing specified ('') + injection list is cleared. + +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/injectable: + + (read only) shows error injectable functions and what type of + error values can be specified. The error type will be one of + below; + - NULL: retval must be 0. + - 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/<function-name>/retval: + + 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 +^^^^^^^^^^^ + +In order to inject faults while debugfs is not available (early boot time), +use the boot option:: + + failslab= + fail_page_alloc= + fail_usercopy= + fail_make_request= + fail_futex= + mmc_core.fail_request=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times> + +proc entries +^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +- /proc/<pid>/fail-nth, + /proc/self/task/<tid>/fail-nth: + + Write to this file of integer N makes N-th call in the task fail. + Read from this file returns a integer value. A value of '0' indicates + that the fault setup with a previous write to this file was injected. + A positive integer N indicates that the fault wasn't yet injected. + Note that this file enables all types of faults (slab, futex, etc). + This setting takes precedence over all other generic debugfs settings + like probability, interval, times, etc. But per-capability settings + (e.g. fail_futex/ignore-private) take precedence over it. + + 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 kernel 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 +----------------------------------------- + +- #include <linux/fault-inject.h> + +- define the fault attributes + + DECLARE_FAULT_ATTR(name); + + Please see the definition of struct fault_attr in fault-inject.h + for details. + +- provide a way to configure fault attributes + +- boot option + + If you need to enable the fault injection capability from boot time, you can + provide boot option to configure it. There is a helper function for it: + + setup_fault_attr(attr, str); + +- debugfs entries + + failslab, fail_page_alloc, fail_usercopy, and fail_make_request use this way. + Helper functions: + + fault_create_debugfs_attr(name, parent, attr); + +- module parameters + + If the scope of the fault injection capability is limited to a + single kernel module, it is better to provide module parameters to + configure the fault attributes. + +- add a hook to insert failures + + Upon should_fail() returning true, client code should inject a failure: + + should_fail(attr, size); + +Application Examples +-------------------- + +- Inject slab allocation failures into module init/exit code:: + + #!/bin/bash + + FAILTYPE=failslab + 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 + echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space + echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose + echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait + + faulty_system() + { + bash -c "echo 1 > /proc/self/make-it-fail && exec $*" + } + + if [ $# -eq 0 ] + then + echo "Usage: $0 modulename [ modulename ... ]" + exit 1 + fi + + for m in $* + do + echo inserting $m... + faulty_system modprobe $m + + echo removing $m... + faulty_system modprobe -r $m + done + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +- Inject page allocation failures only for a specific module:: + + #!/bin/bash + + FAILTYPE=fail_page_alloc + module=$1 + + if [ -z $module ] + then + echo "Usage: $0 <modulename>" + exit 1 + fi + + modprobe $module + + if [ ! -d /sys/module/$module/sections ] + then + echo Module $module is not loaded + exit 1 + fi + + cat /sys/module/$module/sections/.text > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/require-start + cat /sys/module/$module/sections/.data > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/require-end + + echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter + echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability + echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval + echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times + echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space + echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose + echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait + echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-highmem + echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/stacktrace-depth + + trap "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT + + echo "Injecting errors into the module $module... (interrupt to stop)" + sleep 1000000 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +- Inject open_ctree error while btrfs mount:: + + #!/bin/bash + + rm -f testfile.img + dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile.img bs=1M seek=1000 count=1 + DEVICE=$(losetup --show -f testfile.img) + mkfs.btrfs -f $DEVICE + mkdir -p tmpmnt + + FAILTYPE=fail_function + FAILFUNC=open_ctree + echo $FAILFUNC > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/inject + 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 + echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space + echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose + + mount -t btrfs $DEVICE tmpmnt + if [ $? -ne 0 ] + then + echo "SUCCESS!" + else + echo "FAILED!" + umount tmpmnt + fi + + echo > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/inject + + rmdir tmpmnt + losetup -d $DEVICE + rm testfile.img + + +Tool to run command with failslab or fail_page_alloc +---------------------------------------------------- +In order to make it easier to accomplish the tasks mentioned above, we can use +tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh. Please run a command +"./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --help" for more information and +see the following examples. + +Examples: + +Run a command "make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests" with injecting slab +allocation failure:: + + # ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh \ + -- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests + +Same as above except to specify 100 times failures at most instead of one time +at most by default:: + + # ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \ + -- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests + +Same as above except to inject page allocation failure instead of slab +allocation failure:: + + # env FAILCMD_TYPE=fail_page_alloc \ + ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \ + -- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests + +Systematic faults using fail-nth +--------------------------------- + +The following code systematically faults 0-th, 1-st, 2-nd and so on +capabilities in the socketpair() system call:: + + #include <sys/types.h> + #include <sys/stat.h> + #include <sys/socket.h> + #include <sys/syscall.h> + #include <fcntl.h> + #include <unistd.h> + #include <string.h> + #include <stdlib.h> + #include <stdio.h> + #include <errno.h> + + int main() + { + int i, err, res, fail_nth, fds[2]; + char buf[128]; + + system("echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait"); + sprintf(buf, "/proc/self/task/%ld/fail-nth", syscall(SYS_gettid)); + fail_nth = open(buf, O_RDWR); + for (i = 1;; i++) { + sprintf(buf, "%d", i); + write(fail_nth, buf, strlen(buf)); + res = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds); + err = errno; + pread(fail_nth, buf, sizeof(buf), 0); + if (res == 0) { + close(fds[0]); + close(fds[1]); + } + printf("%d-th fault %c: res=%d/%d\n", i, atoi(buf) ? 'N' : 'Y', + res, err); + if (atoi(buf)) + break; + } + return 0; + } + +An example output:: + + 1-th fault Y: res=-1/23 + 2-th fault Y: res=-1/23 + 3-th fault Y: res=-1/12 + 4-th fault Y: res=-1/12 + 5-th fault Y: res=-1/23 + 6-th fault Y: res=-1/23 + 7-th fault Y: res=-1/23 + 8-th fault Y: res=-1/12 + 9-th fault Y: res=-1/12 + 10-th fault Y: res=-1/12 + 11-th fault Y: res=-1/12 + 12-th fault Y: res=-1/12 + 13-th fault Y: res=-1/12 + 14-th fault Y: res=-1/12 + 15-th fault Y: res=-1/12 + 16-th fault N: res=0/12 |