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I was working on my "dump iptables rules using only syscalls" branch and had a bunch of C structure decoding to do. Rather than manually calculating the padding or using unsafe trickery to actually cast variable-length structures to Go types, I'd rather use a helper package that deals with padding for me. Padding rules were taken from the following article: http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/ Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
76 lines
2.1 KiB
Go
76 lines
2.1 KiB
Go
// Copyright (c) 2022 Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS All rights reserved.
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// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
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// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
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// Only built on 64-bit platforms to avoid complexity
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//go:build amd64 || arm64 || mips64le || ppc64le || riscv64
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// +build amd64 arm64 mips64le ppc64le riscv64
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package cstruct
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import "fmt"
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// This test provides a semi-realistic example of how you can
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// use this package to decode a C structure.
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func ExampleDecoder() {
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// Our example C structure:
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// struct mystruct {
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// char *p;
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// char c;
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// /* implicit: char _pad[3]; */
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// int x;
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// };
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//
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// The Go structure definition:
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type myStruct struct {
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Ptr uintptr
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Ch byte
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Intval uint32
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}
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// Our "in-memory" version of the above structure
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buf := []byte{
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1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, // ptr
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5, // ch
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99, 99, 99, // padding
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78, 6, 0, 0, // x
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}
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d := NewDecoder(buf)
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// Decode the structure; if one of these function returns an error,
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// then subsequent decoder functions will return the zero value.
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var x myStruct
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x.Ptr = d.Uintptr()
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x.Ch = d.Byte()
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x.Intval = d.Uint32()
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// Note that per the Go language spec:
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// [...] when evaluating the operands of an expression, assignment,
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// or return statement, all function calls, method calls, and
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// (channel) communication operations are evaluated in lexical
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// left-to-right order
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//
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// Since each field is assigned via a function call, one could use the
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// following snippet to decode the struct.
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// x := myStruct{
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// Ptr: d.Uintptr(),
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// Ch: d.Byte(),
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// Intval: d.Uint32(),
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// }
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//
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// However, this means that reordering the fields in the initialization
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// statement–normally a semantically identical operation–would change
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// the way the structure is parsed. Thus we do it as above with
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// explicit ordering.
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// After finishing with the decoder, check errors
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if err := d.Err(); err != nil {
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panic(err)
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}
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// Print the decoder offset and structure
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fmt.Printf("off=%d struct=%#v\n", d.Offset(), x)
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// Output: off=16 struct=cstruct.myStruct{Ptr:0x4030201, Ch:0x5, Intval:0x64e}
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}
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