Re: [PATCH] error-injection: Add prompt for function error injection

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Nov 21 2022 - 19:24:43 EST


On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:36:08 -0800
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The commit log is bogus and the lack of understanding what
> bpf and error injection hooks are used for expressed
> in this thread is quite sad.
> Disabling error injection makes the system _less_ secure.

Please specify.

As Masami replied, you are abusing this feature for some arcane way to do
security. It's "error injection" how does enabling this improve security???

-- Steve


> But giving people an option to reduce security is a decision
> that every distro and data center has to make on their own.