[$] Block-layer error injection
Date:
Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:34:01 +0000
Description:
Storage code has to cope with hardware that fails in inconvenient
ways, but coaxing a healthy disk into producing those failures on
demand, for testing, is usually not possible. The kernel
provides several ways to inject block-layer I/O errors, but none of those can select the
operation to fail, pick the status code to return, or target a disk
directly without employing a stacked device on top. Use of a stacked device means
the test runs against the mapper device, not the disk it was meant to
exercise. A patch
series from Christoph Hellwig adds a configurable error-injection
interface that does all three things that the current error-injection code lacks, controlled by a per-disk debugfs
file.
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