[PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: Allow error injection

From: Benjamin Poirier
Date: Fri Dec 14 2018 - 02:44:44 EST


Model call chain after should_failslab(). Likewise, we can now use a kprobe
to override the return value of should_fail_alloc_page() and inject
allocation failures into alloc_page*().

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-generic/error-injection.h | 1 +
mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ++++++++--
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h b/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h
index 296c65442f00..95a159a4137f 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/error-injection.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ enum {
EI_ETYPE_NULL, /* Return NULL if failure */
EI_ETYPE_ERRNO, /* Return -ERRNO if failure */
EI_ETYPE_ERRNO_NULL, /* Return -ERRNO or NULL if failure */
+ EI_ETYPE_TRUE, /* Return true if failure */
};

struct error_injection_entry {
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 2ec9cc407216..64861d79dc2d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3053,7 +3053,7 @@ static int __init setup_fail_page_alloc(char *str)
}
__setup("fail_page_alloc=", setup_fail_page_alloc);

-static bool should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
+static bool __should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
{
if (order < fail_page_alloc.min_order)
return false;
@@ -3103,13 +3103,19 @@ late_initcall(fail_page_alloc_debugfs);

#else /* CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC */

-static inline bool should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
+static inline bool __should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
{
return false;
}

#endif /* CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC */

+static noinline bool should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
+{
+ return __should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_mask, order);
+}
+ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION(should_fail_alloc_page, TRUE);
+
/*
* Return true if free base pages are above 'mark'. For high-order checks it
* will return true of the order-0 watermark is reached and there is at least
--
2.19.2