linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm 5/5] fault-inject: add /proc/<pid>/fail-nth

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Date:   Thu,  6 Apr 2017 23:56:01 +0900
From:   Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH -mm 5/5] fault-inject: add /proc/<pid>/fail-nth

fail-nth interface is only created in /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/.
This change also adds it in /proc/<pid>/.

This makes shell based tool a bit simpler.

	$ bash -c "builtin echo 100 > /proc/self/fail-nth && exec ls /"

Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt | 3 ++-
 fs/proc/base.c                                    | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
index 370ddcb..918972b 100644
--- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
@@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ use the boot option:
 
 o proc entries
 
-- /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/fail-nth:
+- /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
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 14e7b73..ea1039d 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2964,6 +2964,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_stuff[] = {
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION
 	REG("make-it-fail", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_fault_inject_operations),
+	REG("fail-nth", 0644, proc_fail_nth_operations),
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE
 	REG("coredump_filter", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_coredump_filter_operations),
-- 
2.7.4