fault.c

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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2015 Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>.
 *
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FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL );

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <ipxe/fault.h>

/** @file
 *
 * Fault injection
 *
 */

/**
 * Inject fault with a specified probability
 *
 * @v rate              Reciprocal of fault probability (must be non-zero)
 * @ret rc              Return status code
 */
int inject_fault_nonzero ( unsigned int rate ) {

        /* Do nothing unless we want to inject a fault now */
        if ( ( random() % rate ) != 0 )
                return 0;

        /* Generate error number here so that faults can be injected
         * into files that don't themselves have error file
         * identifiers (via errfile.h).
         */
        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();
}