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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:56:40 +0100
From: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@...insight.net>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [PATCH] Provide ways of crashing the kernel through debugfs
For development and testing it's sometimes useful to crash or injure the
kernel in various ways. This patch adds a debugfs interface to provoke
null-pointer dereferences, stack corruption, panics, bugons etc. For
example:
mount -t debugfs debugfs /mnt
echo 1 > /mnt/provoke-crash/null_dereference
Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@...insight.net>
---
Obviously this feature is for debugging and testing only, and of
interest to fairly few people. I've used it for testing the kmsg_dump
stuff (hence the CC:s above) and kdump, and have found it fairly useful.
If it's not of interest, at least this mail will be in the archives if
someone else needs something like it :-)
lib/Kconfig.debug | 8 +++
lib/Makefile | 2 +
lib/provoke-crash.c | 163 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 lib/provoke-crash.c
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 25c3ed5..8c82a1d 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1054,6 +1054,14 @@ config DMA_API_DEBUG
This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want
to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N.
+config PROVOKE_CRASH
+ tristate "Provoke kernel crashes through a debugfs interface"
+ depends on DEBUG_FS
+ help
+ Enable the kernel to crash in different ways through a debugfs interface.
+ NOTE: This feature is dangerous!
+ If unsure, say N.
+
source "samples/Kconfig"
source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index 3b0b4a6..6018057 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_CSUM) += checksum.o
obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64) += atomic64.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PROVOKE_CRASH) += provoke-crash.o
+
hostprogs-y := gen_crc32table
clean-files := crc32table.h
diff --git a/lib/provoke-crash.c b/lib/provoke-crash.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5904e1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/provoke-crash.c
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2009 Net Insight
+ *
+ * Kernel module to crash or cause problems for the kernel in
+ * various ways.
+ *
+ * Author: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@...insight.net>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the
+ * License.
+ *
+ */
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/hardirq.h>
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
+
+static ssize_t bugon_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *off)
+{
+ BUG_ON(1);
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t null_dereference_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *off)
+{
+ *(volatile int*)NULL;
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t oops_interrupt_context_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *off)
+{
+ add_preempt_count(SOFTIRQ_MASK);
+ return null_dereference_write(f, buf, count, off);
+}
+
+static ssize_t panic_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *off)
+{
+ panic("User-caused panic\n");
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t write_after_free_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *off)
+{
+ size_t len = 1024;
+ u32 *data = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+ kfree(data);
+ schedule();
+ memset(data, 0x78, len);
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t overwrite_allocation_write(struct file *f,
+ const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *off)
+{
+ size_t len = 1020;
+ u32 *data = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+ data[1024 / sizeof(u32)] = 0x12345678;
+ kfree(data);
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t corrupt_stack_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *off)
+{
+ volatile u32 data[8];
+
+ data[12] = 0x12345678;
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+
+static ssize_t unaligned_load_store_write(struct file *f,
+ const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *off)
+{
+ static u8 data[5] __attribute__((aligned(4))) = {1,2,3,4,5};
+ u32 *p;
+ u32 val = 0x12345678;
+
+ p = (u32*)(data + 1);
+ if (*p == 0)
+ val = 0x87654321;
+ *p = val;
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+
+struct crash_entry
+{
+ const char *name;
+ struct file_operations fops;
+};
+
+static struct crash_entry crash_entries[] = {
+ {"unaligned_load_store", {.write = unaligned_load_store_write}},
+ {"write_after_free", {.write = write_after_free_write}},
+ {"overwrite_allocation", {.write = overwrite_allocation_write}},
+ {"corrupt_stack", {.write = corrupt_stack_write}},
+ {"bugon", {.write = bugon_write}},
+ {"panic", {.write = panic_write}},
+ {"null_dereference", {.write = null_dereference_write}},
+ {"oops_interrupt_context", {.write = oops_interrupt_context_write}},
+};
+
+static struct dentry *provoke_crash_root;
+
+static int __init provoke_crash_init(void)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ provoke_crash_root = debugfs_create_dir("provoke-crash", NULL);
+ if (!provoke_crash_root) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "provoke-crash: creating root dir failed\n");
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(crash_entries); i++) {
+ struct crash_entry *cur = &crash_entries[i];
+ struct dentry *de;
+
+ cur->fops.open = debugfs_file_operations.open;
+ de = debugfs_create_file(cur->name, 0200, provoke_crash_root,
+ NULL, &cur->fops);
+ if (de == NULL) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "provoke_crash: could not create %s\n",
+ cur->name);
+ goto out_err;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+out_err:
+ debugfs_remove_recursive(provoke_crash_root);
+
+ return -ENODEV;
+}
+
+static void __exit provoke_crash_exit(void)
+{
+ debugfs_remove_recursive(provoke_crash_root);
+}
+
+module_init(provoke_crash_init);
+module_exit(provoke_crash_exit);
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@...insight.net>");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Provoke crashes through a debugfs");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
--
1.6.0.4
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