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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 state provides functionality related to saving and loading object
// graphs.  For most types, it provides a set of default saving / loading logic
// that will be invoked automatically if custom logic is not defined.
//
//     Kind             Support
//     ----             -------
//     Bool             default
//     Int              default
//     Int8             default
//     Int16            default
//     Int32            default
//     Int64            default
//     Uint             default
//     Uint8            default
//     Uint16           default
//     Uint32           default
//     Uint64           default
//     Float32          default
//     Float64          default
//     Complex64        default
//     Complex128       default
//     Array            default
//     Chan             custom
//     Func             custom
//     Interface        default
//     Map              default
//     Ptr              default
//     Slice            default
//     String           default
//     Struct           custom (*) Unless zero-sized.
//     UnsafePointer    custom
//
// See README.md for an overview of how encoding and decoding works.
package state

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
	"runtime"

	"gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/state/wire"
)

// objectID is a unique identifier assigned to each object to be serialized.
// Each instance of an object is considered separately, i.e. if there are two
// objects of the same type in the object graph being serialized, they'll be
// assigned unique objectIDs.
type objectID uint32

// typeID is the identifier for a type. Types are serialized and tracked
// alongside objects in order to avoid the overhead of encoding field names in
// all objects.
type typeID uint32

// ErrState is returned when an error is encountered during encode/decode.
type ErrState struct {
	// err is the underlying error.
	err error

	// trace is the stack trace.
	trace string
}

// Error returns a sensible description of the state error.
func (e *ErrState) Error() string {
	return fmt.Sprintf("%v:\n%s", e.err, e.trace)
}

// Unwrap implements standard unwrapping.
func (e *ErrState) Unwrap() error {
	return e.err
}

// Save saves the given object state.
func Save(ctx context.Context, w wire.Writer, rootPtr interface{}) (Stats, error) {
	// Create the encoding state.
	es := encodeState{
		ctx:            ctx,
		w:              w,
		types:          makeTypeEncodeDatabase(),
		zeroValues:     make(map[reflect.Type]*objectEncodeState),
		pending:        make(map[objectID]*objectEncodeState),
		encodedStructs: make(map[reflect.Value]*wire.Struct),
	}

	// Perform the encoding.
	err := safely(func() {
		es.Save(reflect.ValueOf(rootPtr).Elem())
	})
	return es.stats, err
}

// Load loads a checkpoint.
func Load(ctx context.Context, r wire.Reader, rootPtr interface{}) (Stats, error) {
	// Create the decoding state.
	ds := decodeState{
		ctx:      ctx,
		r:        r,
		types:    makeTypeDecodeDatabase(),
		deferred: make(map[objectID]wire.Object),
	}

	// Attempt our decode.
	err := safely(func() {
		ds.Load(reflect.ValueOf(rootPtr).Elem())
	})
	return ds.stats, err
}

// Sink is used for Type.StateSave.
type Sink struct {
	internal objectEncoder
}

// Save adds the given object to the map.
//
// You should pass always pointers to the object you are saving. For example:
//
// type X struct {
// 	A int
// 	B *int
// }
//
// func (x *X) StateTypeInfo(m Sink) state.TypeInfo {
//	return state.TypeInfo{
//		Name:   "pkg.X",
//		Fields: []string{
//			"A",
//			"B",
//		},
//	}
// }
//
// func (x *X) StateSave(m Sink) {
// 	m.Save(0, &x.A) // Field is A.
// 	m.Save(1, &x.B) // Field is B.
// }
//
// func (x *X) StateLoad(m Source) {
// 	m.Load(0, &x.A) // Field is A.
// 	m.Load(1, &x.B) // Field is B.
// }
func (s Sink) Save(slot int, objPtr interface{}) {
	s.internal.save(slot, reflect.ValueOf(objPtr).Elem())
}

// SaveValue adds the given object value to the map.
//
// This should be used for values where pointers are not available, or casts
// are required during Save/Load.
//
// For example, if we want to cast external package type P.Foo to int64:
//
// func (x *X) StateSave(m Sink) {
//	m.SaveValue(0, "A", int64(x.A))
// }
//
// func (x *X) StateLoad(m Source) {
//	m.LoadValue(0, new(int64), func(x interface{}) {
//		x.A = P.Foo(x.(int64))
//	})
// }
func (s Sink) SaveValue(slot int, obj interface{}) {
	s.internal.save(slot, reflect.ValueOf(obj))
}

// Context returns the context object provided at save time.
func (s Sink) Context() context.Context {
	return s.internal.es.ctx
}

// Type is an interface that must be implemented by Struct objects. This allows
// these objects to be serialized while minimizing runtime reflection required.
//
// All these methods can be automatically generated by the go_statify tool.
type Type interface {
	// StateTypeName returns the type's name.
	//
	// This is used for matching type information during encoding and
	// decoding, as well as dynamic interface dispatch. This should be
	// globally unique.
	StateTypeName() string

	// StateFields returns information about the type.
	//
	// Fields is the set of fields for the object. Calls to Sink.Save and
	// Source.Load must be made in-order with respect to these fields.
	//
	// This will be called at most once per serialization.
	StateFields() []string
}

// SaverLoader must be implemented by struct types.
type SaverLoader interface {
	// StateSave saves the state of the object to the given Map.
	StateSave(Sink)

	// StateLoad loads the state of the object.
	StateLoad(Source)
}

// Source is used for Type.StateLoad.
type Source struct {
	internal objectDecoder
}

// Load loads the given object passed as a pointer..
//
// See Sink.Save for an example.
func (s Source) Load(slot int, objPtr interface{}) {
	s.internal.load(slot, reflect.ValueOf(objPtr), false, nil)
}

// LoadWait loads the given objects from the map, and marks it as requiring all
// AfterLoad executions to complete prior to running this object's AfterLoad.
//
// See Sink.Save for an example.
func (s Source) LoadWait(slot int, objPtr interface{}) {
	s.internal.load(slot, reflect.ValueOf(objPtr), true, nil)
}

// LoadValue loads the given object value from the map.
//
// See Sink.SaveValue for an example.
func (s Source) LoadValue(slot int, objPtr interface{}, fn func(interface{})) {
	o := reflect.ValueOf(objPtr)
	s.internal.load(slot, o, true, func() { fn(o.Elem().Interface()) })
}

// AfterLoad schedules a function execution when all objects have been
// allocated and their automated loading and customized load logic have been
// executed. fn will not be executed until all of current object's
// dependencies' AfterLoad() logic, if exist, have been executed.
func (s Source) AfterLoad(fn func()) {
	s.internal.afterLoad(fn)
}

// Context returns the context object provided at load time.
func (s Source) Context() context.Context {
	return s.internal.ds.ctx
}

// IsZeroValue checks if the given value is the zero value.
//
// This function is used by the stateify tool.
func IsZeroValue(val interface{}) bool {
	return val == nil || reflect.ValueOf(val).Elem().IsZero()
}

// Failf is a wrapper around panic that should be used to generate errors that
// can be caught during saving and loading.
func Failf(fmtStr string, v ...interface{}) {
	panic(fmt.Errorf(fmtStr, v...))
}

// safely executes the given function, catching a panic and unpacking as an
// error.
//
// The error flow through the state package uses panic and recover. There are
// two important reasons for this:
//
// 1) Many of the reflection methods will already panic with invalid data or
// violated assumptions. We would want to recover anyways here.
//
// 2) It allows us to eliminate boilerplate within Save() and Load() functions.
// In nearly all cases, when the low-level serialization functions fail, you
// will want the checkpoint to fail anyways. Plumbing errors through every
// method doesn't add a lot of value. If there are specific error conditions
// that you'd like to handle, you should add appropriate functionality to
// objects themselves prior to calling Save() and Load().
func safely(fn func()) (err error) {
	defer func() {
		if r := recover(); r != nil {
			if es, ok := r.(*ErrState); ok {
				err = es // Propagate.
				return
			}

			// Build a new state error.
			es := new(ErrState)
			if e, ok := r.(error); ok {
				es.err = e
			} else {
				es.err = fmt.Errorf("%v", r)
			}

			// Make a stack. We don't know how big it will be ahead
			// of time, but want to make sure we get the whole
			// thing. So we just do a stupid brute force approach.
			var stack []byte
			for sz := 1024; ; sz *= 2 {
				stack = make([]byte, sz)
				n := runtime.Stack(stack, false)
				if n < sz {
					es.trace = string(stack[:n])
					break
				}
			}

			// Set the error.
			err = es
		}
	}()

	// Execute the function.
	fn()
	return nil
}