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authorFerdinand Blomqvist <ferdinand.blomqvist@gmail.com>2019-06-20 17:10:39 +0300
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-06-26 14:55:47 +0200
commit991305dee585dd9e3107b2e253778ed02ee3fbd1 (patch)
treedd5b46b48d2cb3d7bf2bb8ca4de46cad5f559632 /lib/reed_solomon
parent38cbae1434f8f7bbd8eaf24b29a385a4b88938fb (diff)
rslib: Fix remaining decoder flaws
The decoder is flawed in the following ways: - The decoder sometimes fails silently, i.e. it announces success but returns a word that is not a codeword. - The return value of the decoder is incoherent with respect to how fixed erasures are counted. If the word to be decoded is a codeword, then the decoder always returns zero even if some erasures are given. On the other hand, if the word to be decoded contains errors, then the number of erasures is always included in the count of corrected symbols. So the decoder handles erasures without symbol corruption inconsistently. This inconsistency probably doesn't affect anyone using the decoder, but it is inconsistent with the documentation. - The error positions returned in eras_pos include all erasures, but the corrections are only set in the correction buffer if there actually is a symbol error. So if there are erasures without symbol corruption, then the correction buffer will contain errors (unless initialized to zero before calling the decoder) or some values will be unset (if the correction buffer is uninitialized). - When correcting data in-place the decoder does not correct errors in the parity. On the other hand, when returning the errors in correction buffers, errors in the parity are included. The respective fixed are: - The syndrome of a codeword is always zero, and the syndrome is linear, .i.e, S(x+e) = S(x) + S(e). So compute the syndrome for the error and check whether it equals the syndrome of the received word. If it does, then we have decoded to a valid codeword, otherwise we know that we have an uncorrectable error. Fortunately, some unrecoverable error conditions can be detected earlier in the decoding, which saves some processing power. - Simply count and return the number of symbols actually corrected. - Make sure to only return positions where symbols were corrected. - Also fix errors in parity when correcting in-place. Another option would be to completely disregard errors in the parity, but then the interface makes it impossible to write tests that test for silent failures. Other changes: - Only fill the correction buffer and error position buffer if both of them are provided. Otherwise correct in place. Previously the error position buffer was always populated with the positions of the corrected errors, irrespective of whether a correction buffer was supplied or not. The rationale for this change is that there seems to be two use cases for the decoder; correct in-place or use the correction buffers. The caller does not need the positions of the corrected errors when in-place correction is used. If in-place correction is not used, then both the correction buffer and error position buffer need to be populated. Signed-off-by: Ferdinand Blomqvist <ferdinand.blomqvist@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190620141039.9874-8-ferdinand.blomqvist@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/reed_solomon')
-rw-r--r--lib/reed_solomon/decode_rs.c88
1 files changed, 68 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/lib/reed_solomon/decode_rs.c b/lib/reed_solomon/decode_rs.c
index b7264a712d46..805de84ae83d 100644
--- a/lib/reed_solomon/decode_rs.c
+++ b/lib/reed_solomon/decode_rs.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
uint16_t *index_of = rs->index_of;
uint16_t u, q, tmp, num1, num2, den, discr_r, syn_error;
int count = 0;
+ int num_corrected;
uint16_t msk = (uint16_t) rs->nn;
/*
@@ -184,6 +185,15 @@
if (lambda[i] != nn)
deg_lambda = i;
}
+
+ if (deg_lambda == 0) {
+ /*
+ * deg(lambda) is zero even though the syndrome is non-zero
+ * => uncorrectable error detected
+ */
+ return -EBADMSG;
+ }
+
/* Find roots of error+erasure locator polynomial by Chien search */
memcpy(&reg[1], &lambda[1], nroots * sizeof(reg[0]));
count = 0; /* Number of roots of lambda(x) */
@@ -197,6 +207,12 @@
}
if (q != 0)
continue; /* Not a root */
+
+ if (k < pad) {
+ /* Impossible error location. Uncorrectable error. */
+ return -EBADMSG;
+ }
+
/* store root (index-form) and error location number */
root[count] = i;
loc[count] = k;
@@ -231,7 +247,9 @@
/*
* Compute error values in poly-form. num1 = omega(inv(X(l))), num2 =
* inv(X(l))**(fcr-1) and den = lambda_pr(inv(X(l))) all in poly-form
+ * Note: we reuse the buffer for b to store the correction pattern
*/
+ num_corrected = 0;
for (j = count - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
num1 = 0;
for (i = deg_omega; i >= 0; i--) {
@@ -239,6 +257,13 @@
num1 ^= alpha_to[rs_modnn(rs, omega[i] +
i * root[j])];
}
+
+ if (num1 == 0) {
+ /* Nothing to correct at this position */
+ b[j] = 0;
+ continue;
+ }
+
num2 = alpha_to[rs_modnn(rs, root[j] * (fcr - 1) + nn)];
den = 0;
@@ -250,29 +275,52 @@
i * root[j])];
}
}
- /* Apply error to data */
- if (num1 != 0 && loc[j] >= pad) {
- uint16_t cor = alpha_to[rs_modnn(rs,index_of[num1] +
- index_of[num2] +
- nn - index_of[den])];
- /* Store the error correction pattern, if a
- * correction buffer is available */
- if (corr) {
- corr[j] = cor;
- } else {
- /* If a data buffer is given and the
- * error is inside the message,
- * correct it */
- if (data && (loc[j] < (nn - nroots)))
- data[loc[j] - pad] ^= cor;
- }
+
+ b[j] = alpha_to[rs_modnn(rs, index_of[num1] +
+ index_of[num2] +
+ nn - index_of[den])];
+ num_corrected++;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * We compute the syndrome of the 'error' and check that it matches
+ * the syndrome of the received word
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < nroots; i++) {
+ tmp = 0;
+ for (j = 0; j < count; j++) {
+ if (b[j] == 0)
+ continue;
+
+ k = (fcr + i) * prim * (nn-loc[j]-1);
+ tmp ^= alpha_to[rs_modnn(rs, index_of[b[j]] + k)];
}
+
+ if (tmp != alpha_to[s[i]])
+ return -EBADMSG;
}
- if (eras_pos != NULL) {
- for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
- eras_pos[i] = loc[i] - pad;
+ /*
+ * Store the error correction pattern, if a
+ * correction buffer is available
+ */
+ if (corr && eras_pos) {
+ j = 0;
+ for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+ if (b[i]) {
+ corr[j] = b[i];
+ eras_pos[j++] = loc[i] - pad;
+ }
+ }
+ } else if (data && par) {
+ /* Apply error to data and parity */
+ for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+ if (loc[i] < (nn - nroots))
+ data[loc[i] - pad] ^= b[i];
+ else
+ par[loc[i] - pad - len] ^= b[i];
+ }
}
- return count;
+ return num_corrected;
}