Python FFI pointer output to get base array

Question

I have an F FFI written in Rust called src/lib.rsthat looks like this:

// compile with $ cargo build

extern crate libc;
use self::libc::{size_t, int32_t};

use std::cmp::min;
use std::slice;

#[no_mangle]
pub extern "C" fn rle_new(values_data: *const int32_t, values_length: size_t) -> *mut Rle {
    let values = unsafe { slice::from_raw_parts(values_data, values_length as usize).to_vec() };

    return Box::into_raw(Box::new(Rle::new(values)));

}

#[no_mangle]
pub extern "C" fn rle_free(ptr: *mut Rle) {
    if ptr.is_null() {
        return;
    }
    unsafe {
        Box::from_raw(ptr);
    }
}  

#[no_mangle]
pub extern "C" fn rle_values_size(rle: *mut Rle) -> int32_t {
    unsafe { (*rle).values.len() as i32 }
}

#[no_mangle]
pub extern "C" fn rle_values(rle: *mut Rle) -> *mut int32_t {
    unsafe { &mut (*rle).values[0] }
}


#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
pub struct Rle {
    pub values: Vec<i32>,
}


impl Rle {
    pub fn new(values: Vec<i32>) -> Self {
        return Rle { values: values };
    }
}

This is my Cargo.toml in the folder with the project database:

[package]
name = "minimal_example"
version = "0.1.0"
authors = ["Dumbass"]

[dependencies]
libc = "0.2.16"

[lib]
crate-type = ["dylib"] # you might need a different type on linux/windows ?

This is the Python code that calls Rust, also placed in the base folder:

import os
import sys, ctypes
from ctypes import c_char_p, c_uint32, Structure, POINTER, c_int32, c_size_t, pointer

class RleS(Structure):
    pass

prefix = {'win32': ''}.get(sys.platform, 'lib')
extension = {'darwin': '.dylib', 'win32': '.dll'}.get(sys.platform, '.so')
libpath = os.environ.get("LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "target/debug") + "/"
libpath = libpath + prefix + "minimal_example" + extension

try:
    lib = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(libpath)
except OSError:
    print("Library not found at " + libpath)
    sys.exit()

lib.rle_new.restype = POINTER(RleS)

lib.rle_free.argtypes = (POINTER(RleS), )

lib.rle_values.argtypes = (POINTER(RleS), )
lib.rle_values.restypes = POINTER(c_int32)

lib.rle_values_size.argtypes = (POINTER(RleS), )
lib.rle_values_size.restypes = c_int32


class Rle:
    def __init__(self, values):

        values_length =  len(values)

        values_array = (c_int32 * len(values))(*values)

        self.obj = lib.rle_new(values_array, c_size_t(values_length))

    def __enter__(self):
        return self

    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, traceback):
        lib.rle_free(self.obj)

    def __str__(self):
        values_size = lib.rle_values_size(self.obj)
        print(values_size, "values_size") # prints correct value

        values_pointer = lib.rle_values(self.obj)
        print("values_pointer:", values_pointer)
        ar = ctypes.cast(values_pointer, ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int32)).contents
        print(ar) # segfaults!

rle = Rle([1, 1, 2] * 10)
print(rle)

I have every reason to believe that the C code is correct, as rle_values_size, and rle_valuesrefer to the same object, namely to Rust vector inside the structure and the function works rle_values_size.

However, when I try to dereference the pointer given rle_valuesand read it as an array, I get segfaults.

I tried every permutation of the code snippets I found in Stack Overflow, but these are segfaults.

Why is this crumbling? What am I doing wrong?

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Answer 1

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lib.rle_values.restype = POINTER(c_int32)    
lib.rle_values_size.restype = c_int32

, restype, restypes.

def __str__(self):
    values_size = lib.rle_values_size(self.obj)
    print(values_size, "values_size")

    values_pointer = lib.rle_values(self.obj)
    print("values_pointer:", values_pointer)

    thing = values_pointer[:values_size]
    return str(thing)

as_mut_ptr:

#[no_mangle]
pub extern "C" fn rle_values(rle: *mut Rle) -> *mut int32_t {
    let mut rle = unsafe { &mut *rle };
    rle.values.as_mut_ptr()
}

:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/target/debug/ python3 main.py
new
30 values_size
values_pointer: <__main__.LP_c_int object at 0x10f124048>
[1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2]

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  #[no_mangle]
  pub extern "C" fn rle_values_size(rle: *mut Rle) -> int32_t {
      match unsafe { rle.as_ref() } {
          Some(rle) => rle.values.len() as i32,
          None => 0,
      }
  }
  
  #[no_mangle]
  pub extern "C" fn rle_values(rle: *mut Rle) -> *mut int32_t {
      match unsafe { rle.as_mut() } {
          Some(mut rle) => rle.values.as_mut_ptr(),
          None => ptr::null_mut(),
      }
  }