hex0punk / wally

Function callpath mapping analysis tool for Go
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The pull request covers changes to various components of the application, primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and error handling, with a particular emphasis on improving the handling of closure functions, generic functions, and the use of the Static Single Assignment (SSA) representation, which could potentially enable more advanced security analysis techniques.

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**Summary:** The code changes in this pull request cover various components of the application, including the `search`, `map`, `callmapper`, `core`, and `navigator` modules. The changes are primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and error handling of the application, with a particular emphasis on improving the handling of closure functions, generic functions, and the use of the Static Single Assignment (SSA) representation. From an application security perspective, the changes do not appear to introduce any obvious security vulnerabilities. The code changes are mostly focused on improving the analysis capabilities of the application, which could potentially enable more advanced security analysis techniques, such as taint analysis, control flow analysis, and vulnerability detection. However, the specific security implications would depend on how the new functionality is leveraged in the broader context of the application security assessment process. **Files Changed:** 1. `cmd/search.go`: The changes in this file add a new condition to check if there are any route matches found after running the `MapRoutes` function. If no matches are found, it prints a message indicating that no matches were found for the specified function and package. This change does not introduce any significant security concerns. 2. `cmd/map.go`: The changes in this file are focused on handling the case where no route matches are found during the mapping process. The code adds a new block of code that checks if there are no route matches found and prints a message if that's the case. This change ensures that the function gracefully handles the case where no routes are found, preventing potential issues that could arise from further processing or returning empty or unexpected results. 3. `wallylib/callmapper/callmapper.go`: The changes in this file are related to the `BFS` (Breadth-First Search) function in the `CallMapper` struct. The changes aim to handle the processing of closure functions and their enclosing functions in the call graph traversal. These changes do not directly introduce any security vulnerabilities, but they suggest that the developers are trying to handle closure functions more accurately in the call graph analysis. 4. `wallylib/core.go`: The changes in this file are related to the handling of function expressions in the `GetFuncInfo` function. Specifically, it adds a new case to handle `*ast.IndexExpr`, which is used to cover function expressions involving generics. This change does not appear to have any direct security implications, but the overall context and usage of the `GetFuncInfo` function should be considered when evaluating the security implications. 5. `navigator/navigator.go`: The changes in this file appear to be an enhancement to the `Navigator` struct and its associated methods, including the addition of the `Program` field to the `SSA` struct, the caching of variables in the `cacheVariables` method, and improvements to the `GetCallInstructionFromSSAFunc` and `isMatchingCall` methods. These changes could potentially enable more advanced security analysis techniques, such as taint analysis, control flow analysis, and vulnerability detection, but the specific security implications would depend on how the new functionality is leveraged in the broader context of the application security assessment process.

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