2015-11-28 21:45 GMT+09:00 Nikolay Aleksandrov <ra...@blackwall.org>:
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
>
> 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

This patch looks good to me.  It would be nice if you add tools like
tools/testing/selftests/cpu-hotplug/cpu-on-off-test.sh for this feature.
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