[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] 4463: core: Introduce chaos into memory allocations

[Joshua Colp]

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Do you plan on other chaotic things? As it is the chaos is really just memory allocation failures, nothing outside the scope of that.

- Joshua Colp


On March 7, 2015, 6:01 a.m., Scott Griepentrog wrote:
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> (Updated March 7, 2015, 6:01 a.m.)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
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> Repository: Asterisk
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> Description
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> Introduce chaotic (random) failures into certain critical operations to force improvements to error handling.
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> This patch introduces the DEBUG_CHAOS random failure mechanism and adds it to memory allocation wrappers in utils.h.  To be activated, DEBUG_CHAOS must be enabled in menuselect.
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> The failure rate (1 in X) is controlled by changing the define DEBUG_CHAOS_CHANCES_1IN in utils.h.
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> Diffs
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>   /branches/13/main/xmldoc.c 432613 
>   /branches/13/main/utils.c 432613 
>   /branches/13/main/endpoints.c 432613 
>   /branches/13/main/config.c 432613 
>   /branches/13/main/codec_builtin.c 432613 
>   /branches/13/main/asterisk.c 432613 
>   /branches/13/include/asterisk/utils.h 432613 
>   /branches/13/build_tools/cflags.xml 432613 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/4463/diff/
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> Testing
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> I'm unable to get Asterisk to actually start with 1 in 100,000 failure rate.
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> Thanks,
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> Scott Griepentrog
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