Make erasure Encode and Decode atomic to avoid races

pkg/erasure/erasure_decode.go

@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ import (
 //
 // "dataLen" is the length of original source data
 func (e *Erasure) Decode(encodedDataBlocks [][]byte, dataLen int) (decodedData []byte, err error) {
+	e.mutex.Lock()
+	defer e.mutex.Unlock()
+
 	var source, target **C.uchar
 
 	k := int(e.params.K)

pkg/erasure/erasure_encode.go

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ package erasure
 import "C"
 import (
 	"errors"
+	"sync"
 	"unsafe"
 )
 
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ type Erasure struct {
 	encodeMatrix, encodeTbls *C.uchar
 	decodeMatrix, decodeTbls *C.uchar
 	decodeIndex              *C.uint32_t
+	mutex                    *sync.Mutex
 }
 
 // ValidateParams creates an Params object.
@@ -85,6 +87,7 @@ func NewErasure(ep *Params) *Erasure {
 		decodeMatrix: nil,
 		decodeTbls:   nil,
 		decodeIndex:  nil,
+		mutex:        new(sync.Mutex),
 	}
 }
 
@@ -110,6 +113,9 @@ func GetEncodedBlockLen(inputLen int, k uint8) (encodedOutputLen int) {
 // Encode erasure codes a block of data in "k" data blocks and "m" parity blocks.
 // Output is [k+m][]blocks of data and parity slices.
 func (e *Erasure) Encode(inputData []byte) (encodedBlocks [][]byte, err error) {
+	e.mutex.Lock()
+	defer e.mutex.Unlock()
+
 	k := int(e.params.K) // "k" data blocks
 	m := int(e.params.M) // "m" parity blocks
 	n := k + m           // "n" total encoded blocks

pkg/erasure/erasure_test.go

@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ func corruptChunks(chunks [][]byte, errorIndex []int) [][]byte {
 }
 
 func (s *MySuite) TestEncodeDecodeFailure(c *C) {
-	ep, _ := ValidateParams(k, m)
+	ep, err := ValidateParams(k, m)
+	c.Assert(err, IsNil)
 
 	data := []byte("Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.")
 
@@ -58,7 +59,8 @@ func (s *MySuite) TestEncodeDecodeFailure(c *C) {
 }
 
 func (s *MySuite) TestEncodeDecodeSuccess(c *C) {
-	ep, _ := ValidateParams(k, m)
+	ep, err := ValidateParams(k, m)
+	c.Assert(err, IsNil)
 
 	data := []byte("Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.")
 
@@ -76,29 +78,3 @@ func (s *MySuite) TestEncodeDecodeSuccess(c *C) {
 		c.Fatalf("Recovered data mismatches with original data")
 	}
 }
-
-/*
-func (s *MySuite) TestEncodeDecodeSuccessBuffer(c *C) {
-	ep, _ := ValidateParams(k, m)
-
-	tmpBuffer := new(bytes.Buffer)
-	for i := 0; i < 1024*1024; i++ {
-		tmpBuffer.Write([]byte("Hello world, hello world"))
-	}
-
-	e := NewErasure(ep)
-	chunks, err := e.Encode(tmpBuffer.Bytes())
-	c.Assert(err, IsNil)
-
-	errorIndex := []int{0, 3, 5, 9, 13}
-	chunks = corruptChunks(chunks, errorIndex)
-
-	recoveredData, err := e.Decode(chunks, len(tmpBuffer.Bytes()))
-	c.Assert(err, IsNil)
-
-	if !bytes.Equal(tmpBuffer.Bytes(), recoveredData) {
-		c.Fatalf("Recovered data mismatches with original data")
-	}
-
-}
-*/