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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, mingo@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ast@kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bpf: add a bpf_override_function helper
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 02:08:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59FA6FFA.1080503@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1509555643-2899-2-git-send-email-josef@toxicpanda.com>

On 11/01/2017 06:00 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
> From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
>
> Error injection is sloppy and very ad-hoc.  BPF could fill this niche
> perfectly with it's kprobe functionality.  We could make sure errors are
> only triggered in specific call chains that we care about with very
> specific situations.  Accomplish this with the bpf_override_funciton
> helper.  This will modify the probe'd callers return value to the
> specified value and set the PC to an override function that simply
> returns, bypassing the originally probed function.  This gives us a nice
> clean way to implement systematic error injection for all of our code
> paths.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>

Looks useful (seccomp/BPF has something similar but on syscall level).
I think given we change kernel behavior, it would be good if we emit
similar warning like in case of bpf_get_probe_write_proto(), such that
from staring at the log (e.g. in case of subsequent crash), it could
help identifying that cause to trigger the bug could have been due to
bpf_override_function().

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-02  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-01 17:00 [PATCH 0/2][v3] Add the ability to do BPF directed error injection Josef Bacik
2017-11-01 17:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] bpf: add a bpf_override_function helper Josef Bacik
2017-11-01 17:18   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-11-02  1:08   ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2017-11-01 17:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] samples/bpf: add a test for bpf_override_return Josef Bacik
2017-11-01 17:23   ` Alexei Starovoitov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-11-07 20:28 [PATCH 0/2][v5] Add the ability to do BPF directed error injection Josef Bacik
2017-11-07 20:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] bpf: add a bpf_override_function helper Josef Bacik
2017-11-08  2:28   ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-11-10  9:34   ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-10 17:14     ` Josef Bacik
2017-11-11  8:14       ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-11 11:51         ` Josef Bacik
2017-11-12  6:49         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-11-12 10:38           ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-13 15:57             ` Josef Bacik
2017-11-15  7:34               ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-02 14:37 [PATCH 0/2][v4] Add the ability to do BPF directed error injection Josef Bacik
2017-11-02 14:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] bpf: add a bpf_override_function helper Josef Bacik
2017-11-02 23:12   ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-11-03 14:31     ` Josef Bacik
2017-11-03 16:52       ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-11-03 21:07         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-10-31 15:45 [PATCH 0/2][v2] Add the ability to do BPF directed error injection Josef Bacik
2017-10-31 15:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] bpf: add a bpf_override_function helper Josef Bacik
2017-11-01  4:47   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-10-30 21:19 [PATCH 0/2] Add the ability to do BPF directed error injection Josef Bacik
2017-10-30 21:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] bpf: add a bpf_override_function helper Josef Bacik
2017-10-31  1:35   ` Alexei Starovoitov

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