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+// Copyright 2018 The gVisor Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package buffer
+
+// Prependable is a buffer that grows backwards, that is, more data can be
+// prepended to it. It is useful when building networking packets, where each
+// protocol adds its own headers to the front of the higher-level protocol
+// header and payload; for example, TCP would prepend its header to the payload,
+// then IP would prepend its own, then ethernet.
+type Prependable struct {
+	// Buf is the buffer backing the prependable buffer.
+	buf View
+
+	// usedIdx is the index where the used part of the buffer begins.
+	usedIdx int
+}
+
+// NewPrependable allocates a new prependable buffer with the given size.
+func NewPrependable(size int) Prependable {
+	return Prependable{buf: NewView(size), usedIdx: size}
+}
+
+// NewPrependableFromView creates an entirely-used Prependable from a View.
+//
+// NewPrependableFromView takes ownership of v. Note that since the entire
+// prependable is used, further attempts to call Prepend will note that size >
+// p.usedIdx and return nil.
+func NewPrependableFromView(v View) Prependable {
+	return Prependable{buf: v, usedIdx: 0}
+}
+
+// View returns a View of the backing buffer that contains all prepended
+// data so far.
+func (p Prependable) View() View {
+	return p.buf[p.usedIdx:]
+}
+
+// UsedLength returns the number of bytes used so far.
+func (p Prependable) UsedLength() int {
+	return len(p.buf) - p.usedIdx
+}
+
+// AvailableLength returns the number of bytes used so far.
+func (p Prependable) AvailableLength() int {
+	return p.usedIdx
+}
+
+// TrimBack removes size bytes from the end.
+func (p *Prependable) TrimBack(size int) {
+	p.buf = p.buf[:len(p.buf)-size]
+}
+
+// Prepend reserves the requested space in front of the buffer, returning a
+// slice that represents the reserved space.
+func (p *Prependable) Prepend(size int) []byte {
+	if size > p.usedIdx {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	p.usedIdx -= size
+	return p.View()[:size:size]
+}