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Fault Injection
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Fault injection is a method for forcing errors that may not normally occur, or
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may be difficult to reproduce. Forcing these errors in a controlled environment
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can help the developer find and fix bugs before their code is shipped in a
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production system. Injecting an error on the Linux NFS server will allow us to
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observe how the client reacts and if it manages to recover its state correctly.
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NFSD_FAULT_INJECTION must be selected when configuring the kernel to use this
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feature.
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Using Fault Injection
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=====================
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On the client, mount the fault injection server through NFS v4.0+ and do some
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work over NFS (open files, take locks, ...).
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On the server, mount the debugfs filesystem to <debug_dir> and ls
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<debug_dir>/nfsd. This will show a list of files that will be used for
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injecting faults on the NFS server. As root, write a number n to the file
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corresponding to the action you want the server to take. The server will then
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process the first n items it finds. So if you want to forget 5 locks, echo '5'
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to <debug_dir>/nfsd/forget_locks. A value of 0 will tell the server to forget
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all corresponding items. A log message will be created containing the number
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of items forgotten (check dmesg).
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Go back to work on the client and check if the client recovered from the error
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correctly.
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Available Faults
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forget_clients:
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The NFS server keeps a list of clients that have placed a mount call. If
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this list is cleared, the server will have no knowledge of who the client
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is, forcing the client to reauthenticate with the server.
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forget_openowners:
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The NFS server keeps a list of what files are currently opened and who
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they were opened by. Clearing this list will force the client to reopen
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its files.
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forget_locks:
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The NFS server keeps a list of what files are currently locked in the VFS.
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Clearing this list will force the client to reclaim its locks (files are
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unlocked through the VFS as they are cleared from this list).
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forget_delegations:
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A delegation is used to assure the client that a file, or part of a file,
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has not changed since the delegation was awarded. Clearing this list will
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force the client to reacquire its delegation before accessing the file
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again.
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recall_delegations:
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Delegations can be recalled by the server when another client attempts to
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access a file. This test will notify the client that its delegation has
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been revoked, forcing the client to reacquire the delegation before using
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the file again.
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tools/nfs/inject_faults.sh script
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=================================
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This script has been created to ease the fault injection process. This script
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will detect the mounted debugfs directory and write to the files located there
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based on the arguments passed by the user. For example, running
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`inject_faults.sh forget_locks 1` as root will instruct the server to forget
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one lock. Running `inject_faults forget_locks` will instruct the server to
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forgetall locks.
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