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  1. Dec 01, 2015
    • Nikolay Aleksandrov's avatar
      net: add support for netdev notifier error injection · 02fff96a
      Nikolay Aleksandrov authored
      
      This module allows to insert errors in some of netdevice's notifier
      events. All network drivers use these notifiers to signal various events
      and to check if they are allowed, e.g. PRECHANGEMTU and CHANGEMTU
      afterwards. Until recently I had to run failure tests by injecting
      a custom module, but now this infrastructure makes it trivial to test
      these failure paths. Some of the recent bugs I fixed were found using
      this module.
      Here's an example:
       $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
       $ echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
       $ ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
       RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
      
      CC: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
      CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      CC: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      02fff96a
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