linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/10] fault injection: prevent recursive fault injection

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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:58:10 +0800
From:   "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>
To:     "'Vegard Nossum'" <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
        "'Akinobu Mita'" <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] fault injection: prevent recursive fault injection

On Sunday, October 16, 2016 11:56 PM Vegard Nossum wrote:
> 
> If something we call in the fail_dump() code path tries to acquire a
> resource that might fail (due to fault injection), then we should not
> try to recurse back into the fault injection code.
> 
> I've seen this happen with the console semaphore in the upcoming
> semaphore trylock fault injection code.
> 
> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
> ---
>  lib/fault-inject.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/fault-inject.c b/lib/fault-inject.c
> index 6a823a5..adba7c9 100644
> --- a/lib/fault-inject.c
> +++ b/lib/fault-inject.c
> @@ -100,6 +100,33 @@ static inline bool fail_stacktrace(struct fault_attr *attr)
> 
>  #endif /* CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER */
> 
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, fault_active);
> +
> +static bool __fail(struct fault_attr *attr)
> +{
> +	bool ret = false;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Prevent recursive fault injection (this could happen if for
> +	 * example printing the fault would itself run some code that
> +	 * could fail)
> +	 */
> +	preempt_disable();
> +	if (unlikely(__this_cpu_inc_return(fault_active) != 1))
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	ret = true;
> +	fail_dump(attr);
> +
> +	if (atomic_read(&attr->times) != -1)
> +		atomic_dec_not_zero(&attr->times);
> +
> +out:
> +	__this_cpu_dec(fault_active);
> +	preempt_enable();

Given no see other patches in this set, I could easily miss 
anything important and correct me please. 

Though added, there are no words in the change log about 
preempt, and my wonder again is: can we add it in contexts
like the fast path of buddy allocator?

thanks
Hillf
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * This code is stolen from failmalloc-1.0
>   * http://www.nongnu.org/failmalloc/
> @@ -134,12 +161,7 @@ bool should_fail(struct fault_attr *attr, ssize_t size)
>  	if (!fail_stacktrace(attr))
>  		return false;
> 
> -	fail_dump(attr);
> -
> -	if (atomic_read(&attr->times) != -1)
> -		atomic_dec_not_zero(&attr->times);
> -
> -	return true;
> +	return __fail(attr);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(should_fail);
> 
> --
> 2.10.0.479.g221bd91