tree b8b5ccf5a9c21f47ef78f563ff8c6c734567be64
parent 27a70af3f4cf633a1b86c0ac7b426e2fe16ad2e5
author Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> 1448714728 +0100
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1449001917 -0500

net: add support for netdev notifier error injection

This module allows to insert errors in some of netdevice's notifier
events. All network drivers use these notifiers to signal various events
and to check if they are allowed, e.g. PRECHANGEMTU and CHANGEMTU
afterwards. Until recently I had to run failure tests by injecting
a custom module, but now this infrastructure makes it trivial to test
these failure paths. Some of the recent bugs I fixed were found using
this module.
Here's an example:
 $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
 $ echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
 $ ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

CC: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>