// Copyright 2019 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 marshal defines the Marshallable interface for // serialize/deserializing go data structures to/from memory, according to the // Linux ABI. // // Implementations of this interface are typically automatically generated by // tools/go_marshal. See the go_marshal README for details. package marshal import ( "io" "gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/hostarch" ) // CopyContext defines the memory operations required to marshal to and from // user memory. Typically, kernel.Task is used to provide implementations for // these operations. type CopyContext interface { // CopyScratchBuffer provides a task goroutine-local scratch buffer. See // kernel.CopyScratchBuffer. CopyScratchBuffer(size int) []byte // CopyOutBytes writes the contents of b to the task's memory. See // kernel.CopyOutBytes. CopyOutBytes(addr hostarch.Addr, b []byte) (int, error) // CopyInBytes reads the contents of the task's memory to b. See // kernel.CopyInBytes. CopyInBytes(addr hostarch.Addr, b []byte) (int, error) } // Marshallable represents operations on a type that can be marshalled to and // from memory. // // go-marshal automatically generates implementations for this interface for // types marked as '+marshal'. type Marshallable interface { io.WriterTo // SizeBytes is the size of the memory representation of a type in // marshalled form. // // SizeBytes must handle a nil receiver. Practically, this means SizeBytes // cannot deference any fields on the object implementing it (but will // likely make use of the type of these fields). SizeBytes() int // MarshalBytes serializes a copy of a type to dst. // Precondition: dst must be at least SizeBytes() in length. MarshalBytes(dst []byte) // UnmarshalBytes deserializes a type from src. // Precondition: src must be at least SizeBytes() in length. UnmarshalBytes(src []byte) // Packed returns true if the marshalled size of the type is the same as the // size it occupies in memory. This happens when the type has no fields // starting at unaligned addresses (should always be true by default for ABI // structs, verified by automatically generated tests when using // go_marshal), and has no fields marked `marshal:"unaligned"`. // // Packed must return the same result for all possible values of the type // implementing it. Violating this constraint implies the type doesn't have // a static memory layout, and will lead to memory corruption. // Go-marshal-generated code reuses the result of Packed for multiple values // of the same type. Packed() bool // MarshalUnsafe serializes a type by bulk copying its in-memory // representation to the dst buffer. This is only safe to do when the type // has no implicit padding, see Marshallable.Packed. When Packed would // return false, MarshalUnsafe should fall back to the safer but slower // MarshalBytes. // Precondition: dst must be at least SizeBytes() in length. MarshalUnsafe(dst []byte) // UnmarshalUnsafe deserializes a type by directly copying to the underlying // memory allocated for the object by the runtime. // // This allows much faster unmarshalling of types which have no implicit // padding, see Marshallable.Packed. When Packed would return false, // UnmarshalUnsafe should fall back to the safer but slower unmarshal // mechanism implemented in UnmarshalBytes. // Precondition: src must be at least SizeBytes() in length. UnmarshalUnsafe(src []byte) // CopyIn deserializes a Marshallable type from a task's memory. This may // only be called from a task goroutine. This is more efficient than calling // UnmarshalUnsafe on Marshallable.Packed types, as the type being // marshalled does not escape. The implementation should avoid creating // extra copies in memory by directly deserializing to the object's // underlying memory. // // If the copy-in from the task memory is only partially successful, CopyIn // should still attempt to deserialize as much data as possible. See comment // for UnmarshalBytes. CopyIn(cc CopyContext, addr hostarch.Addr) (int, error) // CopyOut serializes a Marshallable type to a task's memory. This may only // be called from a task goroutine. This is more efficient than calling // MarshalUnsafe on Marshallable.Packed types, as the type being serialized // does not escape. The implementation should avoid creating extra copies in // memory by directly serializing from the object's underlying memory. // // The copy-out to the task memory may be partially successful, in which // case CopyOut returns how much data was serialized. See comment for // MarshalBytes for implications. CopyOut(cc CopyContext, addr hostarch.Addr) (int, error) // CopyOutN is like CopyOut, but explicitly requests a partial // copy-out. Note that this may yield unexpected results for non-packed // types and the caller may only want to allow this for packed types. See // comment on MarshalBytes. // // The limit must be less than or equal to SizeBytes(). CopyOutN(cc CopyContext, addr hostarch.Addr, limit int) (int, error) } // go-marshal generates additional functions for a type based on additional // clauses to the +marshal directive. They are documented below. // // Slice API // ========= // // Adding a "slice" clause to the +marshal directive for structs or newtypes on // primitives like this: // // // +marshal slice:FooSlice // type Foo struct { ... } // // Generates four additional functions for marshalling slices of Foos like this: // // // MarshalUnsafeFooSlice is like Foo.MarshalUnsafe, buf for a []Foo. It // // might be more efficient that repeatedly calling Foo.MarshalUnsafe // // over a []Foo in a loop if the type is Packed. // // Preconditions: dst must be at least len(src)*Foo.SizeBytes() in length. // func MarshalUnsafeFooSlice(src []Foo, dst []byte) (int, error) { ... } // // // UnmarshalUnsafeFooSlice is like Foo.UnmarshalUnsafe, buf for a []Foo. It // // might be more efficient that repeatedly calling Foo.UnmarshalUnsafe // // over a []Foo in a loop if the type is Packed. // // Preconditions: src must be at least len(dst)*Foo.SizeBytes() in length. // func UnmarshalUnsafeFooSlice(dst []Foo, src []byte) (int, error) { ... } // // // CopyFooSliceIn copies in a slice of Foo objects from the task's memory. // func CopyFooSliceIn(cc marshal.CopyContext, addr hostarch.Addr, dst []Foo) (int, error) { ... } // // // CopyFooSliceIn copies out a slice of Foo objects to the task's memory. // func CopyFooSliceOut(cc marshal.CopyContext, addr hostarch.Addr, src []Foo) (int, error) { ... } // // The name of the functions are of the format "Copy%sIn" and "Copy%sOut", where // %s is the first argument to the slice clause. This directive is not supported // for newtypes on arrays. // // The slice clause also takes an optional second argument, which must be the // value "inner": // // // +marshal slice:Int32Slice:inner // type Int32 int32 // // This is only valid on newtypes on primitives, and causes the generated // functions to accept slices of the inner type instead: // // func CopyInt32SliceIn(cc marshal.CopyContext, addr hostarch.Addr, dst []int32) (int, error) { ... } // // Without "inner", they would instead be: // // func CopyInt32SliceIn(cc marshal.CopyContext, addr hostarch.Addr, dst []Int32) (int, error) { ... } // // This may help avoid a cast depending on how the generated functions are used.