linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next v2 1/5] docs: notifier-error-inject: fix non-working usage of negative values

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <ebcaadb8-a698-b7ba-a11c-dbd2e379fdef@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:43:24 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
        Zhao Gongyi <zhaogongyi@...wei.com>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, osalvador@...e.de,
        shuah@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v2 1/5] docs: notifier-error-inject: fix non-working
 usage of negative values

On 17.09.22 07:39, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 2022年9月15日(木) 18:01 Zhao Gongyi <zhaogongyi@...wei.com>:
>>
>> Fault injection uses debugfs in a way that the provided values via
>> sysfs are interpreted as u64. Providing negative numbers results in
>> an error:
>>
>>    # cd sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
>>    #  echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_ONLINE/error
>>    -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
>>
>> Update the docs and examples to use "printf %#x <val>" in these cases.
> 
> I'd rather fix the notifier-error-inject module than change the user interface.
> I'll send a patch, so could you check if that solves the problem.
> 

That will also make patch #2 unnecessary, correct?

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb