feat(lib): use memfd on linux instead of dumping libddwaf.so in /tmp

internal/bindings/waf_dl.go

@@ -40,22 +40,22 @@ type wafSymbols struct {
 	run            uintptr
 }
 
-// newWafDl loads the libddwaf shared library and resolves all tge relevant symbols.
+// NewWafDl loads the libddwaf shared library and resolves all tge relevant symbols.
 // The caller is responsible for calling wafDl.Close on the returned object once they
 // are done with it so that associated resources can be released.
 func NewWafDl() (dl *WafDl, err error) {
-	file, err := lib.DumpEmbeddedWAF()
+	file, closer, err := lib.DumpEmbeddedWAF()
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
 	defer func() {
-		if rmErr := os.Remove(file); rmErr != nil {
-			err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf("error removing %s: %w", file, rmErr))
+		if rmErr := closer(); rmErr != nil {
+			err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf("error removing %s: %w", file.Name(), rmErr))
 		}
 	}()
 
 	var handle uintptr
-	if handle, err = purego.Dlopen(file, purego.RTLD_GLOBAL|purego.RTLD_NOW); err != nil {
+	if handle, err = purego.Dlopen(file.Name(), purego.RTLD_GLOBAL|purego.RTLD_NOW); err != nil {
 		return
 	}
 
@@ -97,12 +97,12 @@ func (waf *WafDl) Close() error {
 	return purego.Dlclose(waf.handle)
 }
 
-// wafGetVersion returned string is a static string so we do not need to free it
+// WafGetVersion returned string is a static string so we do not need to free it
 func (waf *WafDl) WafGetVersion() string {
 	return unsafe.Gostring(unsafe.Cast[byte](waf.syscall(waf.getVersion)))
 }
 
-// wafInit initializes a new WAF with the provided ruleset, configuration and info objects. A
+// WafInit initializes a new WAF with the provided ruleset, configuration and info objects. A
 // cgoRefPool ensures that the provided input values are not moved or garbage collected by the Go
 // runtime during the WAF call.
 func (waf *WafDl) WafInit(ruleset *WafObject, config *WafConfig, info *WafObject) WafHandle {
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ func (waf *WafDl) WafDestroy(handle WafHandle) {
 	unsafe.KeepAlive(handle)
 }
 
-// wafKnownAddresses returns static strings so we do not need to free them
+// WafKnownAddresses returns static strings so we do not need to free them
 func (waf *WafDl) WafKnownAddresses(handle WafHandle) []string {
 	var nbAddresses uint32
 

internal/bindings/waf_dl_test.go

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import (
 	"debug/elf"
 	"debug/macho"
 	"fmt"
-	"os"
 	"runtime"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -33,14 +32,14 @@ func TestVerifyHeader(t *testing.T) {
 // testVerifyELFHeader is here to ease the debug cases that will likely need
 // to dive in the linker to debug because the error handling is very poor
 func testVerifyELFHeader(t *testing.T) {
-	file, err := lib.DumpEmbeddedWAF()
+	file, closer, err := lib.DumpEmbeddedWAF()
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
 	defer func() {
-		_ = os.Remove(file)
+		_ = closer()
 	}()
 
-	elfFile, err := elf.Open(file)
+	elfFile, err := elf.Open(file.Name())
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
 	switch runtime.GOARCH {
@@ -60,14 +59,14 @@ func testVerifyELFHeader(t *testing.T) {
 // testVerifyMachOHeader is here to ease the debug cases that will likely need
 // to dive in the linker to debug because the error handling is very poor
 func testVerifyMachOHeader(t *testing.T) {
-	file, err := lib.DumpEmbeddedWAF()
+	file, closer, err := lib.DumpEmbeddedWAF()
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
 	defer func() {
-		_ = os.Remove(file)
+		_ = closer()
 	}()
 
-	machOFile, err := macho.Open(file)
+	machOFile, err := macho.Open(file.Name())
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
 	switch runtime.GOARCH {

internal/lib/dump_waf_darwin.go

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+// Unless explicitly stated otherwise all files in this repository are licensed
+// under the Apache License Version 2.0.
+// This product includes software developed at Datadog (https://www.datadoghq.com/).
+// Copyright 2016-present Datadog, Inc.
+
+//go:build darwin && (amd64 || arm64) && !go1.24 && !datadog.no_waf && (cgo || appsec)
+
+package lib
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"compress/gzip"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+
+	_ "embed"
+)
+
+//go:embed .version
+var EmbeddedWAFVersion string
+
+func DumpEmbeddedWAF() (file *os.File, closer func() error, err error) {
+	file, err = os.CreateTemp("", embedNamePattern)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("error creating temp file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() {
+		if err != nil {
+			if closeErr := file.Close(); closeErr != nil {
+				err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf("error closing file: %w", closeErr))
+			}
+			if rmErr := os.Remove(file.Name()); rmErr != nil {
+				err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf("error removing file: %w", rmErr))
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+
+	gr, err := gzip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(libddwaf))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("error creating gzip reader: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	if _, err := io.Copy(file, gr); err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("error copying gzip content to file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	if err := gr.Close(); err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("error closing gzip reader: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return file, func() error {
+		return errors.Join(file.Close(), os.Remove(file.Name()))
+	}, nil
+}

internal/lib/dump_waf_linux.go

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+// Unless explicitly stated otherwise all files in this repository are licensed
+// under the Apache License Version 2.0.
+// This product includes software developed at Datadog (https://www.datadoghq.com/).
+// Copyright 2016-present Datadog, Inc.
+
+//go:build linux && (amd64 || arm64) && !go1.24 && !datadog.no_waf && (cgo || appsec)
+
+package lib
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"compress/gzip"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+
+	_ "embed"
+)
+
+//go:embed .version
+var EmbeddedWAFVersion string
+
+func DumpEmbeddedWAF() (file *os.File, closer func() error, err error) {
+
+	fd, err := unix.MemfdCreate("libddwaf", 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("error creating memfd: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	file = os.NewFile(uintptr(fd), fmt.Sprintf("/proc/self/fd/%d", fd))
+	if file == nil {
+		return nil, nil, errors.New("error creating file from fd")
+	}
+
+	defer func() {
+		if file != nil && err != nil {
+			if closeErr := file.Close(); closeErr != nil {
+				err = errors.Join(err, fmt.Errorf("error closing file: %w", closeErr))
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+
+	gr, err := gzip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(libddwaf))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("error creating gzip reader: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	if _, err := io.Copy(file, gr); err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("error copying gzip content to memfd: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	if err := gr.Close(); err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("error closing gzip reader: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return file, file.Close, nil
+}