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Storage Compact can break storage #2009

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gfwilliams opened this issue May 28, 2021 · 4 comments
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Storage Compact can break storage #2009

gfwilliams opened this issue May 28, 2021 · 4 comments

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@gfwilliams
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On Bangle.js if you write a bunch of stuff to storage and then compact, it can actually corrupt storage.

However, it doesn't happen all the time...

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Same happens on ESP32 from time to time

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Interesting - thanks! If anyone can come up with a way to reproduce it reliably (eg specific calls to require("Storage").write then I'd love it if you could post up.

As far as I can tell this only really happens if you have a 'corrupt' filename shown in the IDE's storage list or require("Storage").list() - but it's a twofold issue:

  • .compact shouldn't completely fail when faced with a dodgy file
  • We shouldn't get messed up files in the first place!

gfwilliams added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 10, 2021
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You could reproduce one issue with:

const Storage = require('Storage');
Storage.eraseAll();
Storage.write('a', new Uint8Array(500));
Storage.write('code', 'function hello() { print("Hello1"); }');
Storage.write('code', 'function hello() { print("Hello2"); }');
Storage.write('code', 'function hello() { print("Hello"); }');
eval(Storage.read('code'));
trace(hello);
hello();
Storage.compact();
hello();
trace(hello);
eval(Storage.read('code'));
trace(hello);

In that case, the function 'hello' ended up pointing to the wrong place after the compact - the commit above fixes that.

However, I'm not sure this entirely fixes the problem. You'd hope that this code would flex the compaction algorithm pretty well, and it works totally fine, repeatedly:

function rint(l) { return Math.floor(Math.random()*l); }
function rando(l) { return new Uint8Array(l).map(x=>Math.random()*256); };

const Storage = require('Storage');
Storage.eraseAll();
for (var i=0;i<10;i++) Storage.write('a'+i, new Uint8Array(rint(5000)));
var d = E.toString(rando(15000));
Storage.write('data', d);
if (Storage.read('data')!=d) throw "Data not correct 1";
for (var i=0;i<10;i++) Storage.write('b'+i, new Uint8Array(rint(5000)));
// now overwrite stuff
for (var i=0;i<10;i++) Storage.write('a'+i, new Uint8Array(rint(5000)));
for (var i=0;i<10;i++) Storage.write('b'+i, new Uint8Array(rint(5000)));
// data should still be fine - shouldn't be touched
if (Storage.read('data')!=d) throw "Data not correct 2";
// compact
Storage.compact();
// everything moved, but we hope data is still fine
if (Storage.read('data')!=d) throw "Data not correct 3";
print("ok");

And the only time I have hit issues is once when I have done a compact after I have seen a broken-looking filename in Storage.list.

However I am unable to reproduce the broken filename or the compaction issues.

So I'll leave this open for a while in case someone can come up with sample code that can corrupt storage in some way, but if not I think it's safe to close.

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