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10 
11 #![allow(missing_copy_implementations, missing_debug_implementations, missing_docs)]
12 
13 //! The parameterized invariants of a [`Ptr`][super::Ptr].
14 //!
15 //! Invariants are encoded as ([`Aliasing`], [`Alignment`], [`Validity`])
16 //! triples implementing the [`Invariants`] trait.
17 
18 /// The invariants of a [`Ptr`][super::Ptr].
19 pub trait Invariants: Sealed {
20     type Aliasing: Aliasing;
21     type Alignment: Alignment;
22     type Validity: Validity;
23 }
24 
25 impl<A: Aliasing, AA: Alignment, V: Validity> Invariants for (A, AA, V) {
26     type Aliasing = A;
27     type Alignment = AA;
28     type Validity = V;
29 }
30 
31 /// The aliasing invariant of a [`Ptr`][super::Ptr].
32 ///
33 /// All aliasing invariants must permit reading from the bytes of a pointer's
34 /// referent which are not covered by [`UnsafeCell`]s.
35 ///
36 /// [`UnsafeCell`]: core::cell::UnsafeCell
37 pub trait Aliasing: Sealed {
38     /// Is `Self` [`Exclusive`]?
39     #[doc(hidden)]
40     const IS_EXCLUSIVE: bool;
41 }
42 
43 /// The alignment invariant of a [`Ptr`][super::Ptr].
44 pub trait Alignment: Sealed {
45     #[doc(hidden)]
46     #[must_use]
47     fn read<T, I, R>(ptr: crate::Ptr<'_, T, I>) -> T
48     where
49         T: Copy + Read<I::Aliasing, R>,
50         I: Invariants<Alignment = Self, Validity = Valid>,
51         I::Aliasing: Reference;
52 }
53 
54 /// The validity invariant of a [`Ptr`][super::Ptr].
55 ///
56 /// # Safety
57 ///
58 /// In this section, we will use `Ptr<T, V>` as a shorthand for `Ptr<T, I:
59 /// Invariants<Validity = V>>` for brevity.
60 ///
61 /// Each `V: Validity` defines a set of bit values which may appear in the
62 /// referent of a `Ptr<T, V>`, denoted `S(T, V)`. Each `V: Validity`, in its
63 /// documentation, provides a definition of `S(T, V)` which must be valid for
64 /// all `T: ?Sized`. Any `V: Validity` must guarantee that this set is only a
65 /// function of the *bit validity* of the referent type, `T`, and not of any
66 /// other property of `T`. As a consequence, given `V: Validity`, `T`, and `U`
67 /// where `T` and `U` have the same bit validity, `S(V, T) = S(V, U)`.
68 ///
69 /// It is guaranteed that the referent of any `ptr: Ptr<T, V>` is a member of
70 /// `S(T, V)`. Unsafe code must ensure that this guarantee will be upheld for
71 /// any existing `Ptr`s or any `Ptr`s that that code creates.
72 ///
73 /// An important implication of this guarantee is that it restricts what
74 /// transmutes are sound, where "transmute" is used in this context to refer to
75 /// changing the referent type or validity invariant of a `Ptr`, as either
76 /// change may change the set of bit values permitted to appear in the referent.
77 /// In particular, the following are necessary (but not sufficient) conditions
78 /// in order for a transmute from `src: Ptr<T, V>` to `dst: Ptr<U, W>` to be
79 /// sound:
80 /// - If `S(T, V) = S(U, W)`, then no restrictions apply; otherwise,
81 /// - If `dst` permits mutation of its referent (e.g. via `Exclusive` aliasing
82 ///   or interior mutation under `Shared` aliasing), then it must hold that
83 ///   `S(T, V) ⊇ S(U, W)` - in other words, the transmute must not expand the
84 ///   set of allowed referent bit patterns. A violation of this requirement
85 ///   would permit using `dst` to write `x` where `x ∈ S(U, W)` but `x ∉ S(T,
86 ///   V)`, which would violate the guarantee that `src`'s referent may only
87 ///   contain values in `S(T, V)`.
88 /// - If the referent may be mutated without going through `dst` while `dst` is
89 ///   live (e.g. via interior mutation on a `Shared`-aliased `Ptr` or `&`
90 ///   reference), then it must hold that `S(T, V) ⊆ S(U, W)` - in other words,
91 ///   the transmute must not shrink the set of allowed referent bit patterns. A
92 ///   violation of this requirement would permit using `src` or another
93 ///   mechanism (e.g. a `&` reference used to derive `src`) to write `x` where
94 ///   `x ∈ S(T, V)` but `x ∉ S(U, W)`, which would violate the guarantee that
95 ///   `dst`'s referent may only contain values in `S(U, W)`.
96 pub unsafe trait Validity: Sealed {
97     const KIND: ValidityKind;
98 }
99 
100 pub enum ValidityKind {
101     Uninit,
102     AsInitialized,
103     Initialized,
104     Valid,
105 }
106 
107 /// An [`Aliasing`] invariant which is either [`Shared`] or [`Exclusive`].
108 ///
109 /// # Safety
110 ///
111 /// Given `A: Reference`, callers may assume that either `A = Shared` or `A =
112 /// Exclusive`.
113 pub trait Reference: Aliasing + Sealed {}
114 
115 /// The `Ptr<'a, T>` adheres to the aliasing rules of a `&'a T`.
116 ///
117 /// The referent of a shared-aliased `Ptr` may be concurrently referenced by any
118 /// number of shared-aliased `Ptr` or `&T` references, or by any number of
119 /// `Ptr<U>` or `&U` references as permitted by `T`'s library safety invariants,
120 /// and may not be concurrently referenced by any exclusively-aliased `Ptr`s or
121 /// `&mut` references. The referent must not be mutated, except via
122 /// [`UnsafeCell`]s, and only when permitted by `T`'s library safety invariants.
123 ///
124 /// [`UnsafeCell`]: core::cell::UnsafeCell
125 pub enum Shared {}
126 impl Aliasing for Shared {
127     const IS_EXCLUSIVE: bool = false;
128 }
129 impl Reference for Shared {}
130 
131 /// The `Ptr<'a, T>` adheres to the aliasing rules of a `&'a mut T`.
132 ///
133 /// The referent of an exclusively-aliased `Ptr` may not be concurrently
134 /// referenced by any other `Ptr`s or references, and may not be accessed (read
135 /// or written) other than via this `Ptr`.
136 pub enum Exclusive {}
137 impl Aliasing for Exclusive {
138     const IS_EXCLUSIVE: bool = true;
139 }
140 impl Reference for Exclusive {}
141 
142 /// It is unknown whether the pointer is aligned.
143 pub enum Unaligned {}
144 
145 impl Alignment for Unaligned {
146     #[inline(always)]
147     fn read<T, I, R>(ptr: crate::Ptr<'_, T, I>) -> T
148     where
149         T: Copy + Read<I::Aliasing, R>,
150         I: Invariants<Alignment = Self, Validity = Valid>,
151         I::Aliasing: Reference,
152     {
153         (*ptr.into_unalign().as_ref()).into_inner()
154     }
155 }
156 
157 /// The referent is aligned: for `Ptr<T>`, the referent's address is a multiple
158 /// of the `T`'s alignment.
159 pub enum Aligned {}
160 impl Alignment for Aligned {
161     #[inline(always)]
162     fn read<T, I, R>(ptr: crate::Ptr<'_, T, I>) -> T
163     where
164         T: Copy + Read<I::Aliasing, R>,
165         I: Invariants<Alignment = Self, Validity = Valid>,
166         I::Aliasing: Reference,
167     {
168         *ptr.as_ref()
169     }
170 }
171 
172 /// Any bit pattern is allowed in the `Ptr`'s referent, including uninitialized
173 /// bytes.
174 pub enum Uninit {}
175 // SAFETY: `Uninit`'s validity is well-defined for all `T: ?Sized`, and is not a
176 // function of any property of `T` other than its bit validity (in fact, it's
177 // not even a property of `T`'s bit validity, but this is more than we are
178 // required to uphold).
179 unsafe impl Validity for Uninit {
180     const KIND: ValidityKind = ValidityKind::Uninit;
181 }
182 
183 /// The byte ranges initialized in `T` are also initialized in the referent of a
184 /// `Ptr<T>`.
185 ///
186 /// Formally: uninitialized bytes may only be present in `Ptr<T>`'s referent
187 /// where they are guaranteed to be present in `T`. This is a dynamic property:
188 /// if, at a particular byte offset, a valid enum discriminant is set, the
189 /// subsequent bytes may only have uninitialized bytes as specified by the
190 /// corresponding enum.
191 ///
192 /// Formally, given `len = size_of_val_raw(ptr)`, at every byte offset, `b`, in
193 /// the range `[0, len)`:
194 /// - If, in any instance `t: T` of length `len`, the byte at offset `b` in `t`
195 ///   is initialized, then the byte at offset `b` within `*ptr` must be
196 ///   initialized.
197 /// - Let `c` be the contents of the byte range `[0, b)` in `*ptr`. Let `S` be
198 ///   the subset of valid instances of `T` of length `len` which contain `c` in
199 ///   the offset range `[0, b)`. If, in any instance of `t: T` in `S`, the byte
200 ///   at offset `b` in `t` is initialized, then the byte at offset `b` in `*ptr`
201 ///   must be initialized.
202 ///
203 ///   Pragmatically, this means that if `*ptr` is guaranteed to contain an enum
204 ///   type at a particular offset, and the enum discriminant stored in `*ptr`
205 ///   corresponds to a valid variant of that enum type, then it is guaranteed
206 ///   that the appropriate bytes of `*ptr` are initialized as defined by that
207 ///   variant's bit validity (although note that the variant may contain another
208 ///   enum type, in which case the same rules apply depending on the state of
209 ///   its discriminant, and so on recursively).
210 pub enum AsInitialized {}
211 // SAFETY: `AsInitialized`'s validity is well-defined for all `T: ?Sized`, and
212 // is not a function of any property of `T` other than its bit validity.
213 unsafe impl Validity for AsInitialized {
214     const KIND: ValidityKind = ValidityKind::AsInitialized;
215 }
216 
217 /// The byte ranges in the referent are fully initialized. In other words, if
218 /// the referent is `N` bytes long, then it contains a bit-valid `[u8; N]`.
219 pub enum Initialized {}
220 // SAFETY: `Initialized`'s validity is well-defined for all `T: ?Sized`, and is
221 // not a function of any property of `T` other than its bit validity (in fact,
222 // it's not even a property of `T`'s bit validity, but this is more than we are
223 // required to uphold).
224 unsafe impl Validity for Initialized {
225     const KIND: ValidityKind = ValidityKind::Initialized;
226 }
227 
228 /// The referent of a `Ptr<T>` is valid for `T`, upholding bit validity and any
229 /// library safety invariants.
230 pub enum Valid {}
231 // SAFETY: `Valid`'s validity is well-defined for all `T: ?Sized`, and is not a
232 // function of any property of `T` other than its bit validity.
233 unsafe impl Validity for Valid {
234     const KIND: ValidityKind = ValidityKind::Valid;
235 }
236 
237 /// # Safety
238 ///
239 /// `DT: CastableFrom<ST, SV, DV>` is sound if `SV = DV = Uninit` or `SV = DV =
240 /// Initialized`.
241 pub unsafe trait CastableFrom<ST: ?Sized, SV, DV> {}
242 
243 // SAFETY: `SV = DV = Uninit`.
244 unsafe impl<ST: ?Sized, DT: ?Sized> CastableFrom<ST, Uninit, Uninit> for DT {}
245 // SAFETY: `SV = DV = Initialized`.
246 unsafe impl<ST: ?Sized, DT: ?Sized> CastableFrom<ST, Initialized, Initialized> for DT {}
247 
248 /// [`Ptr`](crate::Ptr) referents that permit unsynchronized read operations.
249 ///
250 /// `T: Read<A, R>` implies that a pointer to `T` with aliasing `A` permits
251 /// unsynchronized read operations. This can be because `A` is [`Exclusive`] or
252 /// because `T` does not permit interior mutation.
253 ///
254 /// # Safety
255 ///
256 /// `T: Read<A, R>` if either of the following conditions holds:
257 /// - `A` is [`Exclusive`]
258 /// - `T` implements [`Immutable`](crate::Immutable)
259 ///
260 /// As a consequence, if `T: Read<A, R>`, then any `Ptr<T, (A, ...)>` is
261 /// permitted to perform unsynchronized reads from its referent.
262 pub trait Read<A: Aliasing, R> {}
263 
264 impl<A: Aliasing, T: ?Sized + crate::Immutable> Read<A, BecauseImmutable> for T {}
265 impl<T: ?Sized> Read<Exclusive, BecauseExclusive> for T {}
266 
267 /// Unsynchronized reads are permitted because only one live [`Ptr`](crate::Ptr)
268 /// or reference may exist to the referent bytes at a time.
269 #[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug)]
270 pub enum BecauseExclusive {}
271 
272 /// Unsynchronized reads are permitted because no live [`Ptr`](crate::Ptr)s or
273 /// references permit interior mutation.
274 #[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug)]
275 pub enum BecauseImmutable {}
276 
277 use sealed::Sealed;
278 mod sealed {
279     use super::*;
280 
281     pub trait Sealed {}
282 
283     impl Sealed for Shared {}
284     impl Sealed for Exclusive {}
285 
286     impl Sealed for Unaligned {}
287     impl Sealed for Aligned {}
288 
289     impl Sealed for Uninit {}
290     impl Sealed for AsInitialized {}
291     impl Sealed for Initialized {}
292     impl Sealed for Valid {}
293 
294     impl<A: Sealed, AA: Sealed, V: Sealed> Sealed for (A, AA, V) {}
295 
296     impl Sealed for BecauseImmutable {}
297     impl Sealed for BecauseExclusive {}
298 }
299