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Introduce a fault injection mechanism to force skb reallocation. The
primary goal is to catch bugs related to pointer invalidation after
potential skb reallocation.
The fault injection mechanism aims to identify scenarios where callers
retain pointers to various headers in the skb but fail to reload these
pointers after calling a function that may reallocate the data. This
type of bug can lead to memory corruption or crashes if the old,
now-invalid pointers are used.
By forcing reallocation through fault injection, we can stress-test code
paths and ensure proper pointer management after potential skb
reallocations.
Add a hook for fault injection in the following functions:
* pskb_trim_rcsum()
* pskb_may_pull_reason()
* pskb_trim()
As the other fault injection mechanism, protect it under a debug Kconfig
called CONFIG_FAIL_SKB_REALLOC.
This patch was *heavily* inspired by Jakub's proposal from:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
CC: Akinobu Mita <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
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