linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] add fault injection to user memory access

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Date:   Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:32:38 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     albert.linde@...il.com
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        Albert van der Linde <alinde@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] add fault injection to user memory access

On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:17:30 +0000 albert.linde@...il.com wrote:

> The goal of this series is to improve testing of fault-tolerance in
> usages of user memory access functions, by adding support for fault
> injection.

Does anyone actually plan to use this feature, on an ongoing basis? 
It's the sort of thing which the various test robots could exploit, but
I'm not sure that they are using fault injection?