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diff --git a/internal/syscallcompat/sys_common.go b/internal/syscallcompat/sys_common.go
index 33ed807..3a0d5a1 100644
--- a/internal/syscallcompat/sys_common.go
+++ b/internal/syscallcompat/sys_common.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
package syscallcompat
import (
+ "bytes"
"syscall"
"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
@@ -45,3 +46,69 @@ func Faccessat(dirfd int, path string, mode uint32) error {
func Linkat(olddirfd int, oldpath string, newdirfd int, newpath string, flags int) (err error) {
return unix.Linkat(olddirfd, oldpath, newdirfd, newpath, flags)
}
+
+const XATTR_SIZE_MAX = 65536
+
+// Make the buffer 1kB bigger so we can detect overflows
+const XATTR_BUFSZ = XATTR_SIZE_MAX + 1024
+
+// Fgetxattr is a wrapper around unix.Fgetxattr that handles the buffer sizing.
+func Fgetxattr(fd int, attr string) (val []byte, err error) {
+ // If the buffer is too small to fit the value, Linux and MacOS react
+ // differently:
+ // Linux: returns an ERANGE error and "-1" bytes.
+ // MacOS: truncates the value and returns "size" bytes.
+ //
+ // We choose the simple approach of buffer that is bigger than the limit on
+ // Linux, and return an error for everything that is bigger (which can
+ // only happen on MacOS).
+ //
+ // See https://github.com/pkg/xattr for a smarter solution.
+ // TODO: be smarter?
+ buf := make([]byte, XATTR_BUFSZ)
+ sz, err := unix.Fgetxattr(fd, attr, buf)
+ if err == syscall.ERANGE {
+ // Do NOT return ERANGE - the user might retry ad inifinitum!
+ return nil, syscall.EOVERFLOW
+ }
+ if err != nil {
+ return nil, err
+ }
+ if sz >= XATTR_SIZE_MAX {
+ return nil, syscall.EOVERFLOW
+ }
+ // Copy only the actually used bytes to a new (smaller) buffer
+ // so "buf" never leaves the function and can be allocated on the stack.
+ val = make([]byte, sz)
+ copy(val, buf)
+ return val, nil
+}
+
+// Flistxattr is a wrapper unix.Flistxattr that handles buffer sizing and
+// parsing the returned blob to a string slice.
+func Flistxattr(fd int) (attrs []string, err error) {
+ // See the buffer sizing comments in Fgetxattr.
+ // TODO: be smarter?
+ buf := make([]byte, XATTR_BUFSZ)
+ sz, err := unix.Flistxattr(fd, buf)
+ if err == syscall.ERANGE {
+ // Do NOT return ERANGE - the user might retry ad inifinitum!
+ return nil, syscall.EOVERFLOW
+ }
+ if err != nil {
+ return nil, err
+ }
+ if sz >= XATTR_SIZE_MAX {
+ return nil, syscall.EOVERFLOW
+ }
+ buf = buf[:sz]
+ parts := bytes.Split(buf, []byte{0})
+ for _, part := range parts {
+ if len(part) == 0 {
+ // Last part is empty, ignore
+ continue
+ }
+ attrs = append(attrs, string(part))
+ }
+ return attrs, nil
+}