## Low-level little-endian base 128 variable length integer/byte converters, as ## described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEB128 - up to 64 bits supported. ## ## The leb128 encoding is used in DWARF and WASM. ## ## It is also fully compatible with the unsigned varint encoding found in ## `protobuf` and `go`, and can thus be used directly. It's easy to build ## support for the two kinds (zig-zag and cast) of signed encodings on top. ## ## This is not the only way to encode variable length integers - variations ## exist like sqlite and utf-8 - in particular, the `std/varints` module ## implements the sqlite flavour. ## ## This implementation contains low-level primitives suitable for building ## more easy-to-use API. ## ## Exception/Defect free as of nim 1.2. ## ## Security notes: ## ## leb128 allows overlong byte sequences that decode into the same integer - ## the library decodes these sequences to a certain extent, but will stop ## decoding at the maximum length that a minimal encoder will produce. For ## example, the byte sequence `[byte 0x80, 0x80, 0x00]`, when decoded as a ## `uint64` is a valid encoding for `0` because the maximum length of a minimal ## `uint64` encoding is 10 bytes - however, because all minimal encodings ## for `uint8` fit in 2 bytes, decoding the same byte sequence as `uint8` will ## yield an error return. ## ## To be strict about overlong encodings, compare the decoded number of bytes ## with `Leb128.len(decoded_value)`. {.push raises: [].} import stew/bitops2 const # Given the truncated logarithm of a 64-bit number, how many bytes do we need # to encode it? lengths = block: var v: array[64, int8] for i in 0..<64: v[i] = int8((i + 7) div 7) v type Leb128* = object ## Type used to mark leb128 encoding helpers # log2trunc by definition never returns values >64, thus we can remove checks {.push checks: off.} func len*(T: type Leb128, x: SomeUnsignedInt): int8 = ## Returns number of bytes required to encode integer ``x`` as leb128. if x == 0: 1 # Always at least one byte! else: lengths[log2trunc(x)] {.pop.} func maxLen*(T: type Leb128, I: type): int8 = ## The maximum number of bytes needed to encode any value of type I Leb128.len(I.high) type Leb128Buf*[T: SomeUnsignedInt] = object data*: array[maxLen(Leb128, T), byte] # len(data) <= 10 len*: int8 # >= 1 when holding valid leb128 template write7(next: untyped) = # write 7 bits of data if v > type(v)(127): result.data[result.len] = cast[byte](v and type(v)(0xff)) or 0x80'u8 result.len += 1 v = v shr 7 next # LebBuf size corresponds to maximum size that the type will be encoded to, thus # there can be no out-of-bounds accesses here - likewise with the length # arithmetic {.push checks: off.} func toBytes*[I: SomeUnsignedInt](v: I, T: type Leb128): Leb128Buf[I] {.noinit.} = ## Convert an unsigned integer to the smallest leb128 representation possible ## ## Example: ## 15'u16.toBytes(Leb128) var v = v result.len = 0 # A clever developer would write something clever for the unrolling - # fortunately, we have clever compilers that remove the excess unrolls based # on size! write7(): # 7 write7(): # 14 write7(): # 21 write7(): # 28 write7(): # 35 write7(): # 42 write7(): # 49 write7(): # 56 write7(): # 63 discard # high bit not set since v <= 127 at this point! result.data[result.len] = cast[byte](v and type(v)(0xff)) result.len += 1 template read7(shift: untyped) = # Read 7 bits of data and return iff these are the last 7 bits if (shift div 7) >= xlen: return (I(0), 0'i8) # Not enough data - return 0 bytes read when shift >= sizeof(I) * 8: # avoid shift overflows: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/19983 if true: return (I(0), -cast[int8]((shift div 7) + 1)) let b = x[shift div 7] valb = b and 0x7f'u8 # byte without high bit val = I(valb) vals = val shl shift when shift > (sizeof(val) * 8 - 7): # Check for overflow in the "unused" bits of the byte we just read if vals shr shift != val: return (I(0), -cast[int8]((shift div 7) + 1)) res = res or vals if b == valb: # High bit not set, we're done return (res, cast[int8]((shift div 7) + 1)) func fromBytes*( I: type SomeUnsignedInt, x: openArray[byte], T: type Leb128): tuple[val: I, len: int8] {.noinit.} = ## Parse a LEB128 byte sequence and return value and how many bytes were ## parsed - if parsing fails, len <= 0 will be returned - 0 when there are not ## enough bytes and -len on overflow, signalling how many bytes were parsed let xlen = x.len() var res: I read7(0) read7(7) read7(14) read7(21) read7(28) read7(35) read7(42) read7(49) read7(56) read7(63) (I(0), -11'i8) {.pop.} template toOpenArray*(v: Leb128Buf): openArray[byte] = toOpenArray(v.data, 0, v.len - 1) template len*(v: Leb128Buf): int8 = v.len template `@`*(v: Leb128Buf): seq[byte] = @(v.toOpenArray()) iterator items*(v: Leb128Buf): byte = for i in 0..