Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge even more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few leftovers

 - fault-injector rework

 - add a module loader test driver

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  kmod: throttle kmod thread limit
  kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader
  MAINTAINERS: give kmod some maintainer love
  xtensa: use generic fb.h
  fault-inject: add /proc/<pid>/fail-nth
  fault-inject: simplify access check for fail-nth
  fault-inject: make fail-nth read/write interface symmetric
  fault-inject: parse as natural 1-based value for fail-nth write interface
  fault-inject: automatically detect the number base for fail-nth write interface
  kernel/watchdog.c: use better pr_fmt prefix
  MAINTAINERS: move the befs tree to kernel.org
  lib/atomic64_test.c: add a test that atomic64_inc_not_zero() returns an int
  mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards()

17 files changed, 1969 insertions, 62 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
index 192d8cbcc5f9..918972babcd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
@@ -136,12 +136,13 @@ use the boot option:
 
 o proc entries
 
-- /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/fail-nth:
+- /proc/<pid>/fail-nth:
+- /proc/self/task/<tid>/fail-nth:
 
-	Write to this file of integer N makes N-th call in the current task fail
-	(N is 0-based). Read from this file returns a single char 'Y' or 'N'
-	that says if the fault setup with a previous write to this file was
-	injected or not, and disables the fault if it wasn't yet injected.
+	Write to this file of integer N makes N-th call in the task fail.
+	Read from this file returns a integer value. A value of '0' indicates
+	that the fault setup with a previous write to this file was injected.
+	A positive integer N indicates that the fault wasn't yet injected.
 	Note that this file enables all types of faults (slab, futex, etc).
 	This setting takes precedence over all other generic debugfs settings
 	like probability, interval, times, etc. But per-capability settings
@@ -320,18 +321,19 @@ int main()
 	system("echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait");
 	sprintf(buf, "/proc/self/task/%ld/fail-nth", syscall(SYS_gettid));
 	fail_nth = open(buf, O_RDWR);
-	for (i = 0;; i++) {
+	for (i = 1;; i++) {
 		sprintf(buf, "%d", i);
 		write(fail_nth, buf, strlen(buf));
 		res = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds);
 		err = errno;
-		read(fail_nth, buf, 1);
+		pread(fail_nth, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);
 		if (res == 0) {
 			close(fds[0]);
 			close(fds[1]);
 		}
-		printf("%d-th fault %c: res=%d/%d\n", i, buf[0], res, err);
-		if (buf[0] != 'Y')
+		printf("%d-th fault %c: res=%d/%d\n", i, atoi(buf) ? 'N' : 'Y',
+			res, err);
+		if (atoi(buf))
 			break;
 	}
 	return 0;
@@ -339,7 +341,6 @@ int main()
 
 An example output:
 
-0-th fault Y: res=-1/23
 1-th fault Y: res=-1/23
 2-th fault Y: res=-1/23
 3-th fault Y: res=-1/12
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4bae99c37635..428e042dcd21 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2516,10 +2516,10 @@ S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/media/platform/sti/delta
 
 BEFS FILE SYSTEM
-M:	Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
+M:	Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@kernel.org>
 M:	Salah Triki <salah.triki@gmail.com>
 S:	Maintained
-T:	git git://github.com/luisbg/linux-befs.git
+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luisbg/linux-befs.git
 F:	Documentation/filesystems/befs.txt
 F:	fs/befs/
 
@@ -7554,6 +7554,15 @@ F:	include/linux/kmemleak.h
 F:	mm/kmemleak.c
 F:	mm/kmemleak-test.c
 
+KMOD MODULE USERMODE HELPER
+M:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
+L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
+S:	Maintained
+F:	kernel/kmod.c
+F:	include/linux/kmod.h
+F:	lib/test_kmod.c
+F:	tools/testing/selftests/kmod/
+
 KPROBES
 M:	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 M:	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/Kbuild b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/Kbuild
index c04efde775a5..2d716ebc5a5e 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/Kbuild
+++ b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/Kbuild
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ generic-y += dma-contiguous.h
 generic-y += emergency-restart.h
 generic-y += exec.h
 generic-y += extable.h
+generic-y += fb.h
 generic-y += hardirq.h
 generic-y += irq_regs.h
 generic-y += irq_work.h
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/fb.h b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/fb.h
deleted file mode 100644
index c7df38030992..000000000000
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/fb.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#ifndef _ASM_FB_H_
-#define _ASM_FB_H_
-#include <linux/fb.h>
-
-#define fb_pgprotect(...) do {} while (0)
-
-static inline int fb_is_primary_device(struct fb_info *info)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
-#endif /* _ASM_FB_H_ */
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 88b773f318cd..719c2e943ea1 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1360,20 +1360,19 @@ static ssize_t proc_fail_nth_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 				   size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	struct task_struct *task;
-	int err, n;
+	int err;
+	unsigned int n;
+
+	err = kstrtouint_from_user(buf, count, 0, &n);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
 
 	task = get_proc_task(file_inode(file));
 	if (!task)
 		return -ESRCH;
+	WRITE_ONCE(task->fail_nth, n);
 	put_task_struct(task);
-	if (task != current)
-		return -EPERM;
-	err = kstrtoint_from_user(buf, count, 10, &n);
-	if (err)
-		return err;
-	if (n < 0 || n == INT_MAX)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	current->fail_nth = n + 1;
+
 	return count;
 }
 
@@ -1381,21 +1380,18 @@ static ssize_t proc_fail_nth_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 				  size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	struct task_struct *task;
-	int err;
+	char numbuf[PROC_NUMBUF];
+	ssize_t len;
 
 	task = get_proc_task(file_inode(file));
 	if (!task)
 		return -ESRCH;
+	len = snprintf(numbuf, sizeof(numbuf), "%u\n",
+			READ_ONCE(task->fail_nth));
+	len = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, numbuf, len);
 	put_task_struct(task);
-	if (task != current)
-		return -EPERM;
-	if (count < 1)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	err = put_user((char)(current->fail_nth ? 'N' : 'Y'), buf);
-	if (err)
-		return err;
-	current->fail_nth = 0;
-	return 1;
+
+	return len;
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations proc_fail_nth_operations = {
@@ -2966,6 +2962,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_stuff[] = {
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION
 	REG("make-it-fail", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_fault_inject_operations),
+	REG("fail-nth", 0644, proc_fail_nth_operations),
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE
 	REG("coredump_filter", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_coredump_filter_operations),
@@ -3358,11 +3355,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tid_base_stuff[] = {
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION
 	REG("make-it-fail", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_fault_inject_operations),
-	/*
-	 * Operations on the file check that the task is current,
-	 * so we create it with 0666 to support testing under unprivileged user.
-	 */
-	REG("fail-nth", 0666, proc_fail_nth_operations),
+	REG("fail-nth", 0644, proc_fail_nth_operations),
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
 	ONE("io",	S_IRUSR, proc_tid_io_accounting),
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 3822d749fc9e..2ba9ec93423f 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION
 	int				make_it_fail;
-	int fail_nth;
+	unsigned int			fail_nth;
 #endif
 	/*
 	 * When (nr_dirtied >= nr_dirtied_pause), it's time to call
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index ff68198fe83b..6d016c5d97c8 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ static DECLARE_RWSEM(umhelper_sem);
  */
 #define MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT 50
 static atomic_t kmod_concurrent_max = ATOMIC_INIT(MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT);
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(kmod_wq);
 
 /*
 	modprobe_path is set via /proc/sys.
@@ -140,7 +141,6 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
 	va_list args;
 	char module_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
 	int ret;
-	static int kmod_loop_msg;
 
 	/*
 	 * We don't allow synchronous module loading from async.  Module
@@ -164,14 +164,11 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
 		return ret;
 
 	if (atomic_dec_if_positive(&kmod_concurrent_max) < 0) {
-		/* We may be blaming an innocent here, but unlikely */
-		if (kmod_loop_msg < 5) {
-			printk(KERN_ERR
-			       "request_module: runaway loop modprobe %s\n",
-			       module_name);
-			kmod_loop_msg++;
-		}
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		pr_warn_ratelimited("request_module: kmod_concurrent_max (%u) close to 0 (max_modprobes: %u), for module %s, throttling...",
+				    atomic_read(&kmod_concurrent_max),
+				    MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT, module_name);
+		wait_event_interruptible(kmod_wq,
+					 atomic_dec_if_positive(&kmod_concurrent_max) >= 0);
 	}
 
 	trace_module_request(module_name, wait, _RET_IP_);
@@ -179,6 +176,7 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
 	ret = call_modprobe(module_name, wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
 
 	atomic_inc(&kmod_concurrent_max);
+	wake_up(&kmod_wq);
 
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index cabe3e9fb620..06d3389bca0d 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  * to those contributors as well.
  */
 
-#define pr_fmt(fmt) "NMI watchdog: " fmt
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "watchdog: " fmt
 
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index b0d01c6d4e03..789c6e9e5e01 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1847,6 +1847,33 @@ config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
+config TEST_KMOD
+	tristate "kmod stress tester"
+	default n
+	depends on m
+	depends on BLOCK && (64BIT || LBDAF)	  # for XFS, BTRFS
+	depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN
+	select TEST_LKM
+	select XFS_FS
+	select TUN
+	select BTRFS_FS
+	help
+	  Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements
+	  support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper.
+	  This test provides a series of tests against kmod.
+
+	  Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or
+	  into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since
+	  it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause
+	  some issues by taking over precious threads available from other
+	  module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal.
+
+	  To run tests run:
+
+	  tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 source "samples/Kconfig"
 
 source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb"
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index 85e91e51a9fe..40c18372b301 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_PRINTF) += test_printf.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_BITMAP) += test_bitmap.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_UUID) += test_uuid.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_PARMAN) += test_parman.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_KMOD) += test_kmod.o
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT),y)
 CFLAGS_kobject.o += -DDEBUG
diff --git a/lib/atomic64_test.c b/lib/atomic64_test.c
index fd70c0e0e673..62ab629f51ca 100644
--- a/lib/atomic64_test.c
+++ b/lib/atomic64_test.c
@@ -153,8 +153,10 @@ static __init void test_atomic64(void)
 	long long v0 = 0xaaa31337c001d00dLL;
 	long long v1 = 0xdeadbeefdeafcafeLL;
 	long long v2 = 0xfaceabadf00df001LL;
+	long long v3 = 0x8000000000000000LL;
 	long long onestwos = 0x1111111122222222LL;
 	long long one = 1LL;
+	int r_int;
 
 	atomic64_t v = ATOMIC64_INIT(v0);
 	long long r = v0;
@@ -240,6 +242,11 @@ static __init void test_atomic64(void)
 	BUG_ON(!atomic64_inc_not_zero(&v));
 	r += one;
 	BUG_ON(v.counter != r);
+
+	/* Confirm the return value fits in an int, even if the value doesn't */
+	INIT(v3);
+	r_int = atomic64_inc_not_zero(&v);
+	BUG_ON(!r_int);
 }
 
 static __init int test_atomics_init(void)
diff --git a/lib/fault-inject.c b/lib/fault-inject.c
index 09ac73c177fd..7d315fdb9f13 100644
--- a/lib/fault-inject.c
+++ b/lib/fault-inject.c
@@ -107,9 +107,12 @@ static inline bool fail_stacktrace(struct fault_attr *attr)
 
 bool should_fail(struct fault_attr *attr, ssize_t size)
 {
-	if (in_task() && current->fail_nth) {
-		if (--current->fail_nth == 0)
+	if (in_task()) {
+		unsigned int fail_nth = READ_ONCE(current->fail_nth);
+
+		if (fail_nth && !WRITE_ONCE(current->fail_nth, fail_nth - 1))
 			goto fail;
+
 		return false;
 	}
 
diff --git a/lib/test_kmod.c b/lib/test_kmod.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6c1d678bcf8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/test_kmod.c
@@ -0,0 +1,1246 @@
+/*
+ * kmod stress test driver
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+ * Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or at your option any
+ * later version; or, when distributed separately from the Linux kernel or
+ * when incorporated into other software packages, subject to the following
+ * license:
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of copyleft-next (version 0.3.1 or later) as published
+ * at http://copyleft-next.org/.
+ */
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
+
+/*
+ * This driver provides an interface to trigger and test the kernel's
+ * module loader through a series of configurations and a few triggers.
+ * To test this driver use the following script as root:
+ *
+ * tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/kmod.h>
+#include <linux/printk.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
+
+#define TEST_START_NUM_THREADS	50
+#define TEST_START_DRIVER	"test_module"
+#define TEST_START_TEST_FS	"xfs"
+#define TEST_START_TEST_CASE	TEST_KMOD_DRIVER
+
+
+static bool force_init_test = false;
+module_param(force_init_test, bool_enable_only, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_init_test,
+		 "Force kicking a test immediately after driver loads");
+
+/*
+ * For device allocation / registration
+ */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(reg_dev_mutex);
+static LIST_HEAD(reg_test_devs);
+
+/*
+ * num_test_devs actually represents the *next* ID of the next
+ * device we will allow to create.
+ */
+static int num_test_devs;
+
+/**
+ * enum kmod_test_case - linker table test case
+ *
+ * If you add a  test case, please be sure to review if you need to se
+ * @need_mod_put for your tests case.
+ *
+ * @TEST_KMOD_DRIVER: stress tests request_module()
+ * @TEST_KMOD_FS_TYPE: stress tests get_fs_type()
+ */
+enum kmod_test_case {
+	__TEST_KMOD_INVALID = 0,
+
+	TEST_KMOD_DRIVER,
+	TEST_KMOD_FS_TYPE,
+
+	__TEST_KMOD_MAX,
+};
+
+struct test_config {
+	char *test_driver;
+	char *test_fs;
+	unsigned int num_threads;
+	enum kmod_test_case test_case;
+	int test_result;
+};
+
+struct kmod_test_device;
+
+/**
+ * kmod_test_device_info - thread info
+ *
+ * @ret_sync: return value if request_module() is used, sync request for
+ * 	@TEST_KMOD_DRIVER
+ * @fs_sync: return value of get_fs_type() for @TEST_KMOD_FS_TYPE
+ * @thread_idx: thread ID
+ * @test_dev: test device test is being performed under
+ * @need_mod_put: Some tests (get_fs_type() is one) requires putting the module
+ *	(module_put(fs_sync->owner)) when done, otherwise you will not be able
+ *	to unload the respective modules and re-test. We use this to keep
+ *	accounting of when we need this and to help out in case we need to
+ *	error out and deal with module_put() on error.
+ */
+struct kmod_test_device_info {
+	int ret_sync;
+	struct file_system_type *fs_sync;
+	struct task_struct *task_sync;
+	unsigned int thread_idx;
+	struct kmod_test_device *test_dev;
+	bool need_mod_put;
+};
+
+/**
+ * kmod_test_device - test device to help test kmod
+ *
+ * @dev_idx: unique ID for test device
+ * @config: configuration for the test
+ * @misc_dev: we use a misc device under the hood
+ * @dev: pointer to misc_dev's own struct device
+ * @config_mutex: protects configuration of test
+ * @trigger_mutex: the test trigger can only be fired once at a time
+ * @thread_lock: protects @done count, and the @info per each thread
+ * @done: number of threads which have completed or failed
+ * @test_is_oom: when we run out of memory, use this to halt moving forward
+ * @kthreads_done: completion used to signal when all work is done
+ * @list: needed to be part of the reg_test_devs
+ * @info: array of info for each thread
+ */
+struct kmod_test_device {
+	int dev_idx;
+	struct test_config config;
+	struct miscdevice misc_dev;
+	struct device *dev;
+	struct mutex config_mutex;
+	struct mutex trigger_mutex;
+	struct mutex thread_mutex;
+
+	unsigned int done;
+
+	bool test_is_oom;
+	struct completion kthreads_done;
+	struct list_head list;
+
+	struct kmod_test_device_info *info;
+};
+
+static const char *test_case_str(enum kmod_test_case test_case)
+{
+	switch (test_case) {
+	case TEST_KMOD_DRIVER:
+		return "TEST_KMOD_DRIVER";
+	case TEST_KMOD_FS_TYPE:
+		return "TEST_KMOD_FS_TYPE";
+	default:
+		return "invalid";
+	}
+}
+
+static struct miscdevice *dev_to_misc_dev(struct device *dev)
+{
+	return dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+}
+
+static struct kmod_test_device *misc_dev_to_test_dev(struct miscdevice *misc_dev)
+{
+	return container_of(misc_dev, struct kmod_test_device, misc_dev);
+}
+
+static struct kmod_test_device *dev_to_test_dev(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct miscdevice *misc_dev;
+
+	misc_dev = dev_to_misc_dev(dev);
+
+	return misc_dev_to_test_dev(misc_dev);
+}
+
+/* Must run with thread_mutex held */
+static void kmod_test_done_check(struct kmod_test_device *test_dev,
+				 unsigned int idx)
+{
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+
+	test_dev->done++;
+	dev_dbg(test_dev->dev, "Done thread count: %u\n", test_dev->done);
+
+	if (test_dev->done == config->num_threads) {
+		dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Done: %u threads have all run now\n",
+			 test_dev->done);
+		dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Last thread to run: %u\n", idx);
+		complete(&test_dev->kthreads_done);
+	}
+}
+
+static void test_kmod_put_module(struct kmod_test_device_info *info)
+{
+	struct kmod_test_device *test_dev = info->test_dev;
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+
+	if (!info->need_mod_put)
+		return;
+
+	switch (config->test_case) {
+	case TEST_KMOD_DRIVER:
+		break;
+	case TEST_KMOD_FS_TYPE:
+		if (info && info->fs_sync && info->fs_sync->owner)
+			module_put(info->fs_sync->owner);
+		break;
+	default:
+		BUG();
+	}
+
+	info->need_mod_put = true;
+}
+
+static int run_request(void *data)
+{
+	struct kmod_test_device_info *info = data;
+	struct kmod_test_device *test_dev = info->test_dev;
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+
+	switch (config->test_case) {
+	case TEST_KMOD_DRIVER:
+		info->ret_sync = request_module("%s", config->test_driver);
+		break;
+	case TEST_KMOD_FS_TYPE:
+		info->fs_sync = get_fs_type(config->test_fs);
+		info->need_mod_put = true;
+		break;
+	default:
+		/* __trigger_config_run() already checked for test sanity */
+		BUG();
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	dev_dbg(test_dev->dev, "Ran thread %u\n", info->thread_idx);
+
+	test_kmod_put_module(info);
+
+	mutex_lock(&test_dev->thread_mutex);
+	info->task_sync = NULL;
+	kmod_test_done_check(test_dev, info->thread_idx);
+	mutex_unlock(&test_dev->thread_mutex);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int tally_work_test(struct kmod_test_device_info *info)
+{
+	struct kmod_test_device *test_dev = info->test_dev;
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+	int err_ret = 0;
+
+	switch (config->test_case) {
+	case TEST_KMOD_DRIVER:
+		/*
+		 * Only capture errors, if one is found that's
+		 * enough, for now.
+		 */
+		if (info->ret_sync != 0)
+			err_ret = info->ret_sync;
+		dev_info(test_dev->dev,
+			 "Sync thread %d return status: %d\n",
+			 info->thread_idx, info->ret_sync);
+		break;
+	case TEST_KMOD_FS_TYPE:
+		/* For now we make this simple */
+		if (!info->fs_sync)
+			err_ret = -EINVAL;
+		dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Sync thread %u fs: %s\n",
+			 info->thread_idx, info->fs_sync ? config->test_fs :
+			 "NULL");
+		break;
+	default:
+		BUG();
+	}
+
+	return err_ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * XXX: add result option to display if all errors did not match.
+ * For now we just keep any error code if one was found.
+ *
+ * If this ran it means *all* tasks were created fine and we
+ * are now just collecting results.
+ *
+ * Only propagate errors, do not override with a subsequent sucess case.
+ */
+static void tally_up_work(struct kmod_test_device *test_dev)
+{
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+	struct kmod_test_device_info *info;
+	unsigned int idx;
+	int err_ret = 0;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	mutex_lock(&test_dev->thread_mutex);
+
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Results:\n");
+
+	for (idx=0; idx < config->num_threads; idx++) {
+		info = &test_dev->info[idx];
+		ret = tally_work_test(info);
+		if (ret)
+			err_ret = ret;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Note: request_module() returns 256 for a module not found even
+	 * though modprobe itself returns 1.
+	 */
+	config->test_result = err_ret;
+
+	mutex_unlock(&test_dev->thread_mutex);
+}
+
+static int try_one_request(struct kmod_test_device *test_dev, unsigned int idx)
+{
+	struct kmod_test_device_info *info = &test_dev->info[idx];
+	int fail_ret = -ENOMEM;
+
+	mutex_lock(&test_dev->thread_mutex);
+
+	info->thread_idx = idx;
+	info->test_dev = test_dev;
+	info->task_sync = kthread_run(run_request, info, "%s-%u",
+				      KBUILD_MODNAME, idx);
+
+	if (!info->task_sync || IS_ERR(info->task_sync)) {
+		test_dev->test_is_oom = true;
+		dev_err(test_dev->dev, "Setting up thread %u failed\n", idx);
+		info->task_sync = NULL;
+		goto err_out;
+	} else
+		dev_dbg(test_dev->dev, "Kicked off thread %u\n", idx);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&test_dev->thread_mutex);
+
+	return 0;
+
+err_out:
+	info->ret_sync = fail_ret;
+	mutex_unlock(&test_dev->thread_mutex);
+
+	return fail_ret;
+}
+
+static void test_dev_kmod_stop_tests(struct kmod_test_device *test_dev)
+{
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+	struct kmod_test_device_info *info;
+	unsigned int i;
+
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Ending request_module() tests\n");
+
+	mutex_lock(&test_dev->thread_mutex);
+
+	for (i=0; i < config->num_threads; i++) {
+		info = &test_dev->info[i];
+		if (info->task_sync && !IS_ERR(info->task_sync)) {
+			dev_info(test_dev->dev,
+				 "Stopping still-running thread %i\n", i);
+			kthread_stop(info->task_sync);
+		}
+
+		/*
+		 * info->task_sync is well protected, it can only be
+		 * NULL or a pointer to a struct. If its NULL we either
+		 * never ran, or we did and we completed the work. Completed
+		 * tasks *always* put the module for us. This is a sanity
+		 * check -- just in case.
+		 */
+		if (info->task_sync && info->need_mod_put)
+			test_kmod_put_module(info);
+	}
+
+	mutex_unlock(&test_dev->thread_mutex);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Only wait *iff* we did not run into any errors during all of our thread
+ * set up. If run into any issues we stop threads and just bail out with
+ * an error to the trigger. This also means we don't need any tally work
+ * for any threads which fail.
+ */
+static int try_requests(struct kmod_test_device *test_dev)
+{
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+	unsigned int idx;
+	int ret;
+	bool any_error = false;
+
+	for (idx=0; idx < config->num_threads; idx++) {
+		if (test_dev->test_is_oom) {
+			any_error = true;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		ret = try_one_request(test_dev, idx);
+		if (ret) {
+			any_error = true;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (!any_error) {
+		test_dev->test_is_oom = false;
+		dev_info(test_dev->dev,
+			 "No errors were found while initializing threads\n");
+		wait_for_completion(&test_dev->kthreads_done);
+		tally_up_work(test_dev);
+	} else {
+		test_dev->test_is_oom = true;
+		dev_info(test_dev->dev,
+			 "At least one thread failed to start, stop all work\n");
+		test_dev_kmod_stop_tests(test_dev);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int run_test_driver(struct kmod_test_device *test_dev)
+{
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Test case: %s (%u)\n",
+		 test_case_str(config->test_case),
+		 config->test_case);
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Test driver to load: %s\n",
+		 config->test_driver);
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Number of threads to run: %u\n",
+		 config->num_threads);
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Thread IDs will range from 0 - %u\n",
+		 config->num_threads - 1);
+
+	return try_requests(test_dev);
+}
+
+static int run_test_fs_type(struct kmod_test_device *test_dev)
+{
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Test case: %s (%u)\n",
+		 test_case_str(config->test_case),
+		 config->test_case);
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Test filesystem to load: %s\n",
+		 config->test_fs);
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Number of threads to run: %u\n",
+		 config->num_threads);
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "Thread IDs will range from 0 - %u\n",
+		 config->num_threads - 1);
+
+	return try_requests(test_dev);
+}
+
+static ssize_t config_show(struct device *dev,
+			   struct device_attribute *attr,
+			   char *buf)
+{
+	struct kmod_test_device *test_dev = dev_to_test_dev(dev);
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+	int len = 0;
+
+	mutex_lock(&test_dev->config_mutex);
+
+	len += snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE,
+			"Custom trigger configuration for: %s\n",
+			dev_name(dev));
+
+	len += snprintf(buf+len, PAGE_SIZE - len,
+			"Number of threads:\t%u\n",
+			config->num_threads);
+
+	len += snprintf(buf+len, PAGE_SIZE - len,
+			"Test_case:\t%s (%u)\n",
+			test_case_str(config->test_case),
+			config->test_case);
+
+	if (config->test_driver)
+		len += snprintf(buf+len, PAGE_SIZE - len,
+				"driver:\t%s\n",
+				config->test_driver);
+	else
+		len += snprintf(buf+len, PAGE_SIZE - len,
+				"driver:\tEMTPY\n");
+
+	if (config->test_fs)
+		len += snprintf(buf+len, PAGE_SIZE - len,
+				"fs:\t%s\n",
+				config->test_fs);
+	else
+		len += snprintf(buf+len, PAGE_SIZE - len,
+				"fs:\tEMTPY\n");
+
+	mutex_unlock(&test_dev->config_mutex);
+
+	return len;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(config);
+
+/*
+ * This ensures we don't allow kicking threads through if our configuration
+ * is faulty.
+ */
+static int __trigger_config_run(struct kmod_test_device *test_dev)
+{
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+
+	test_dev->done = 0;
+
+	switch (config->test_case) {
+	case TEST_KMOD_DRIVER:
+		return run_test_driver(test_dev);
+	case TEST_KMOD_FS_TYPE:
+		return run_test_fs_type(test_dev);
+	default:
+		dev_warn(test_dev->dev,
+			 "Invalid test case requested: %u\n",
+			 config->test_case);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+}
+
+static int trigger_config_run(struct kmod_test_device *test_dev)
+{
+	struct test_config *config = &test_dev->config;
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&test_dev->trigger_mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&test_dev->config_mutex);
+
+	ret = __trigger_config_run(test_dev);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto out;
+	dev_info(test_dev->dev, "General test result: %d\n",
+		 config->test_result);
+
+	/*
+	 * We must return 0 after a trigger even unless something went
+	 * wrong with the setup of the test. If the test setup went fine
+	 * then userspace must just check the result of config->test_result.
+	 * One issue with relying on the return from a call in the kernel
+	 * is if the kernel returns a possitive value using this trigger
+	 * will not return the value to userspace, it would be lost.
+	 *
+	 * By not relying on capturing the return value of tests we are using
+	 * through the trigger it also us to run tests with set -e and only
+	 * fail when something went wrong with the driver upon trigger
+	 * requests.
+	 */
+	ret = 0;
+
+out:
+	mutex_unlock(&test_dev->config_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&test_dev->trigger_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+trigger_config_store(struct device *dev,
+		     struct device_attribute *attr,
+		     const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	struct kmod_test_device *test_dev = dev_to_test_dev(dev);
+	int ret;
+
+	if (test_dev->test_is_oom)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	/* For all intents and purposes we don't care what userspace
+	 * sent this trigger, we care only that we were triggered.
+	 * We treat the return value only for caputuring issues with
+	 * the test setup. At this point all the test variables should
+	 * have been allocated so typically this should never fail.
+	 */
+	ret = trigger_config_run(test_dev);
+	if (unlikely(ret < 0))
+		goto out;
+
+	/*
+	 * Note: any return > 0 will be treated as success
+	 * and the error value will not be available to userspace.
+	 * Do not rely on trying to send to userspace a test value
+	 * return value as possitive return errors will be lost.
+	 */
+	if (WARN_ON(ret > 0))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	ret = count;
+out:
+	return ret;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_WO(trigger_config);
+
+/*
+ * XXX: move to kstrncpy() once merged.
+ *
+ * Users should use kfree_const() when freeing these.
+ */
+static int __kstrncpy(char **dst, const char *na