Improve the performance of detecting linux-musl platform by parsing ELF

lib/src/compiler-path.ts

@@ -4,20 +4,22 @@
 
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as p from 'path';
+import {getELFInterpreter} from './elf';
 import {isErrnoException} from './utils';
 
 /**
- * Detect if the current running node binary is linked with musl libc by
- * checking if the binary contains a string like "/.../ld-musl-$ARCH.so"
+ * Detect if the given binary is linked with musl libc by checking if
+ * the interpreter basename starts with "ld-musl-"
  */
-const isLinuxMusl = function () {
-  return fs.readFileSync(process.execPath).includes('/ld-musl-');
+const isLinuxMusl = function (path: string): boolean {
+  const interpreter = getELFInterpreter(path);
+  return p.basename(interpreter).startsWith('ld-musl-');
 };
 
 /** The full command for the embedded compiler executable. */
 export const compilerCommand = (() => {
   const platform =
-    process.platform === 'linux' && isLinuxMusl()
+    process.platform === 'linux' && isLinuxMusl(process.execPath)
       ? 'linux-musl'
       : (process.platform as string);
 

lib/src/elf.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+// Copyright 2024 Google LLC. Use of this source code is governed by an
+// MIT-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
+// https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
+
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+
+/**
+ * Read chunk of data from a file descriptor into a new Buffer.
+ */
+const readFileDescriptor = function (
+  fd: number,
+  position: number,
+  length: number
+): Buffer {
+  const buffer = Buffer.alloc(length);
+  let offset = 0;
+  while (offset < length) {
+    const bytesRead = fs.readSync(fd, buffer, {
+      offset: offset,
+      position: position + offset,
+    });
+    if (bytesRead === 0) {
+      throw new Error(`failed to read fd ${fd}`);
+    }
+
+    offset += bytesRead;
+  }
+  return buffer;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Parse an ELF file and return its interpreter.
+ */
+export const getELFInterpreter = function (path: string): string {
+  const fd = fs.openSync(path, 'r');
+  try {
+    const eIdent = new DataView(readFileDescriptor(fd, 0, 64).buffer);
+
+    if (
+      eIdent.getUint8(0) !== 0x7f ||
+      eIdent.getUint8(1) !== 0x45 ||
+      eIdent.getUint8(2) !== 0x4c ||
+      eIdent.getUint8(3) !== 0x46
+    ) {
+      throw new Error(`${path} is not an elf file.`);
+    }
+
+    const eIdentClass = eIdent.getUint8(4);
+    if (eIdentClass !== 1 && eIdentClass !== 2) {
+      throw new Error(`${path} has an invalid elf class.`);
+    }
+    const class32 = eIdentClass === 1;
+
+    const eIdentData = eIdent.getUint8(5);
+    if (eIdentData !== 1 && eIdentData !== 2) {
+      throw new Error(`${path} has an invalid endianness.`);
+    }
+    const littleEndian = eIdentData === 1;
+
+    const e_phoff = class32
+      ? eIdent.getUint32(28, littleEndian)
+      : Number(eIdent.getBigUint64(32, littleEndian));
+    const e_phentsize = class32
+      ? eIdent.getUint16(42, littleEndian)
+      : eIdent.getUint16(54, littleEndian);
+    const e_phnum = class32
+      ? eIdent.getUint16(44, littleEndian)
+      : eIdent.getUint16(56, littleEndian);
+
+    const proghdrs = new DataView(
+      readFileDescriptor(fd, e_phoff, e_phentsize * e_phnum).buffer
+    );
+    for (let i = 0; i < e_phnum; i++) {
+      const byteOffset = i * e_phentsize;
+      const p_type = proghdrs.getUint32(byteOffset, littleEndian);
+      if (p_type !== 3) {
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      const p_offset = class32
+        ? proghdrs.getUint32(byteOffset + 4, littleEndian)
+        : Number(proghdrs.getBigUint64(byteOffset + 8, littleEndian));
+      const p_filesz = class32
+        ? proghdrs.getUint32(byteOffset + 16, littleEndian)
+        : Number(proghdrs.getBigUint64(byteOffset + 32, littleEndian));
+
+      const buffer = readFileDescriptor(fd, p_offset, p_filesz);
+      if (buffer[p_filesz - 1] !== 0) {
+        throw new Error(`${path} is corrupted.`);
+      }
+
+      return buffer.toString('utf8', 0, p_filesz - 1);
+    }
+
+    throw new Error(`${path} does not contain an interpreter entry.`);
+  } finally {
+    fs.closeSync(fd);
+  }
+};