Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
        Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
 
+config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT
+       tristate "CPU notifier error injection module"
+       depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL
+       help
+         This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test
+         the error handling of the cpu notifiers
+
+         To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will
+         be called cpu-notifier-error-inject.
+
+         If unsure, say N.
+
 config FAULT_INJECTION
        bool "Fault-injection framework"
        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
 
--- /dev/null
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/notifier.h>
+
+static int priority;
+static int cpu_up_prepare_error;
+static int cpu_down_prepare_error;
+
+module_param(priority, int, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(priority, "specify cpu notifier priority");
+
+module_param(cpu_up_prepare_error, int, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(cpu_up_prepare_error,
+               "specify error code to inject CPU_UP_PREPARE action");
+
+module_param(cpu_down_prepare_error, int, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(cpu_down_prepare_error,
+               "specify error code to inject CPU_DOWN_PREPARE action");
+
+static int err_inject_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
+                               unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
+{
+       int err = 0;
+
+       switch (action) {
+       case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
+       case CPU_UP_PREPARE_FROZEN:
+               err = cpu_up_prepare_error;
+               break;
+       case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
+       case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE_FROZEN:
+               err = cpu_down_prepare_error;
+               break;
+       }
+       if (err)
+               printk(KERN_INFO "Injecting error (%d) at cpu notifier\n", err);
+
+       return notifier_from_errno(err);
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block err_inject_cpu_notifier = {
+       .notifier_call = err_inject_cpu_callback,
+};
+
+static int err_inject_init(void)
+{
+       err_inject_cpu_notifier.priority = priority;
+
+       return register_hotcpu_notifier(&err_inject_cpu_notifier);
+}
+
+static void err_inject_exit(void)
+{
+       unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&err_inject_cpu_notifier);
+}
+
+module_init(err_inject_init);
+module_exit(err_inject_exit);
+
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CPU notifier error injection module");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>");