[fault] Add inject_corruption() to randomly corrupt data

Provide an inject_corruption() function that can be used to randomly
corrupt data bytes with configurable probabilities.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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Michael Brown
2015-07-22 14:29:20 +01:00
parent d0325b1da6
commit 89816af2a4
2 changed files with 50 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -51,3 +51,32 @@ int inject_fault_nonzero ( unsigned int rate ) {
*/
return -EFAULT;
}
/**
* Corrupt data with a specified probability
*
* @v rate Reciprocal of fault probability (must be non-zero)
* @v data Data
* @v len Length of data
* @ret rc Return status code
*/
void inject_corruption_nonzero ( unsigned int rate, const void *data,
size_t len ) {
uint8_t *writable;
size_t offset;
/* Do nothing if we have no data to corrupt */
if ( ! len )
return;
/* Do nothing unless we want to inject a fault now */
if ( ! inject_fault_nonzero ( rate ) )
return;
/* Get a writable pointer to the nominally read-only data */
writable = ( ( uint8_t * ) data );
/* Pick a random victim byte and zap it */
offset = ( random() % len );
writable[offset] ^= random();
}