mfbt/ChaosMode.h

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:39:09 +0100

author
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
date
Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:39:09 +0100
branch
TOR_BUG_9701
changeset 8
97036ab72558
permissions
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Conditionally force memory storage according to privacy.thirdparty.isolate;
This solves Tor bug #9701, complying with disk avoidance documented in
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#disk-avoidance.

     1 /* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
     2 /* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */
     3 /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
     4  * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
     5  * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
     7 #ifndef mozilla_ChaosMode_h
     8 #define mozilla_ChaosMode_h
    10 #include <stdint.h>
    11 #include <stdlib.h>
    13 namespace mozilla {
    15 /**
    16  * When "chaos mode" is activated, code that makes implicitly nondeterministic
    17  * choices is encouraged to make random and extreme choices, to test more
    18  * code paths and uncover bugs.
    19  */
    20 class ChaosMode
    21 {
    22   public:
    23     static bool isActive()
    24     {
    25       // Flip this to true to activate chaos mode
    26       return false;
    27     }
    29     /**
    30      * Returns a somewhat (but not uniformly) random uint32_t < aBound.
    31      * Not to be used for anything except ChaosMode, since it's not very random.
    32      */
    33     static uint32_t randomUint32LessThan(uint32_t aBound)
    34     {
    35       return uint32_t(rand()) % aBound;
    36     }
    37 };
    39 } /* namespace mozilla */
    41 #endif /* mozilla_ChaosMode_h */

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