rust: uaccess: add typed accessors for userspace pointers

Add safe methods for reading and writing Rust values to and from
userspace pointers.

The C methods for copying to/from userspace use a function called
`check_object_size` to verify that the kernel pointer is not dangling.
However, this check is skipped when the length is a compile-time
constant, with the assumption that such cases trivially have a correct
kernel pointer.

In this patch, we apply the same optimization to the typed accessors.
For both methods, the size of the operation is known at compile time to
be size_of of the type being read or written. Since the C side doesn't
provide a variant that skips only this check, we create custom helpers
for this purpose.

The majority of reads and writes to userspace pointers in the Rust
Binder driver uses these accessor methods. Benchmarking has found that
skipping the `check_object_size` check makes a big difference for the
cases being skipped here. (And that the check doesn't make a difference
for the cases that use the raw read/write methods.)

This code is based on something that was originally written by Wedson on
the old rust branch. It was modified by Alice to skip the
`check_object_size` check, and to update various comments, including the
notes about kernel pointers in `WritableToBytes`.

Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Wrapped docs to 100 and added a few intra-doc links. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>

rust/kernel/types.rs

@@ -409,3 +409,67 @@ pub enum Either<L, R> {
     /// Constructs an instance of [`Either`] containing a value of type `R`.
     Right(R),
 }
+
+/// Types for which any bit pattern is valid.
+///
+/// Not all types are valid for all values. For example, a `bool` must be either zero or one, so
+/// reading arbitrary bytes into something that contains a `bool` is not okay.
+///
+/// It's okay for the type to have padding, as initializing those bytes has no effect.
+///
+/// # Safety
+///
+/// All bit-patterns must be valid for this type. This type must not have interior mutability.
+pub unsafe trait FromBytes {}
+
+// SAFETY: All bit patterns are acceptable values of the types below.
+unsafe impl FromBytes for u8 {}
+unsafe impl FromBytes for u16 {}
+unsafe impl FromBytes for u32 {}
+unsafe impl FromBytes for u64 {}
+unsafe impl FromBytes for usize {}
+unsafe impl FromBytes for i8 {}
+unsafe impl FromBytes for i16 {}
+unsafe impl FromBytes for i32 {}
+unsafe impl FromBytes for i64 {}
+unsafe impl FromBytes for isize {}
+// SAFETY: If all bit patterns are acceptable for individual values in an array, then all bit
+// patterns are also acceptable for arrays of that type.
+unsafe impl<T: FromBytes> FromBytes for [T] {}
+unsafe impl<T: FromBytes, const N: usize> FromBytes for [T; N] {}
+
+/// Types that can be viewed as an immutable slice of initialized bytes.
+///
+/// If a struct implements this trait, then it is okay to copy it byte-for-byte to userspace. This
+/// means that it should not have any padding, as padding bytes are uninitialized. Reading
+/// uninitialized memory is not just undefined behavior, it may even lead to leaking sensitive
+/// information on the stack to userspace.
+///
+/// The struct should also not hold kernel pointers, as kernel pointer addresses are also considered
+/// sensitive. However, leaking kernel pointers is not considered undefined behavior by Rust, so
+/// this is a correctness requirement, but not a safety requirement.
+///
+/// # Safety
+///
+/// Values of this type may not contain any uninitialized bytes. This type must not have interior
+/// mutability.
+pub unsafe trait AsBytes {}
+
+// SAFETY: Instances of the following types have no uninitialized portions.
+unsafe impl AsBytes for u8 {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for u16 {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for u32 {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for u64 {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for usize {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for i8 {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for i16 {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for i32 {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for i64 {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for isize {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for bool {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for char {}
+unsafe impl AsBytes for str {}
+// SAFETY: If individual values in an array have no uninitialized portions, then the array itself
+// does not have any uninitialized portions either.
+unsafe impl<T: AsBytes> AsBytes for [T] {}
+unsafe impl<T: AsBytes, const N: usize> AsBytes for [T; N] {}

rust/kernel/uaccess.rs

@@ -4,10 +4,16 @@
 //!
 //! C header: [`include/linux/uaccess.h`](srctree/include/linux/uaccess.h)
 
-use crate::{alloc::Flags, bindings, error::Result, prelude::*};
+use crate::{
+    alloc::Flags,
+    bindings,
+    error::Result,
+    prelude::*,
+    types::{AsBytes, FromBytes},
+};
 use alloc::vec::Vec;
 use core::ffi::{c_ulong, c_void};
-use core::mem::MaybeUninit;
+use core::mem::{size_of, MaybeUninit};
 
 /// The type used for userspace addresses.
 pub type UserPtr = usize;
@@ -247,6 +253,41 @@ impl UserSliceReader {
         self.read_raw(out)
     }
 
+    /// Reads a value of the specified type.
+    ///
+    /// Fails with [`EFAULT`] if the read happens on a bad address, or if the read goes out of
+    /// bounds of this [`UserSliceReader`].
+    pub fn read<T: FromBytes>(&mut self) -> Result<T> {
+        let len = size_of::<T>();
+        if len > self.length {
+            return Err(EFAULT);
+        }
+        let Ok(len_ulong) = c_ulong::try_from(len) else {
+            return Err(EFAULT);
+        };
+        let mut out: MaybeUninit<T> = MaybeUninit::uninit();
+        // SAFETY: The local variable `out` is valid for writing `size_of::<T>()` bytes.
+        //
+        // By using the _copy_from_user variant, we skip the check_object_size check that verifies
+        // the kernel pointer. This mirrors the logic on the C side that skips the check when the
+        // length is a compile-time constant.
+        let res = unsafe {
+            bindings::_copy_from_user(
+                out.as_mut_ptr().cast::<c_void>(),
+                self.ptr as *const c_void,
+                len_ulong,
+            )
+        };
+        if res != 0 {
+            return Err(EFAULT);
+        }
+        self.ptr = self.ptr.wrapping_add(len);
+        self.length -= len;
+        // SAFETY: The read above has initialized all bytes in `out`, and since `T` implements
+        // `FromBytes`, any bit-pattern is a valid value for this type.
+        Ok(unsafe { out.assume_init() })
+    }
+
     /// Reads the entirety of the user slice, appending it to the end of the provided buffer.
     ///
     /// Fails with [`EFAULT`] if the read happens on a bad address.
@@ -310,4 +351,38 @@ impl UserSliceWriter {
         self.length -= len;
         Ok(())
     }
+
+    /// Writes the provided Rust value to this userspace pointer.
+    ///
+    /// Fails with [`EFAULT`] if the write happens on a bad address, or if the write goes out of
+    /// bounds of this [`UserSliceWriter`]. This call may modify the associated userspace slice even
+    /// if it returns an error.
+    pub fn write<T: AsBytes>(&mut self, value: &T) -> Result {
+        let len = size_of::<T>();
+        if len > self.length {
+            return Err(EFAULT);
+        }
+        let Ok(len_ulong) = c_ulong::try_from(len) else {
+            return Err(EFAULT);
+        };
+        // SAFETY: The reference points to a value of type `T`, so it is valid for reading
+        // `size_of::<T>()` bytes.
+        //
+        // By using the _copy_to_user variant, we skip the check_object_size check that verifies the
+        // kernel pointer. This mirrors the logic on the C side that skips the check when the length
+        // is a compile-time constant.
+        let res = unsafe {
+            bindings::_copy_to_user(
+                self.ptr as *mut c_void,
+                (value as *const T).cast::<c_void>(),
+                len_ulong,
+            )
+        };
+        if res != 0 {
+            return Err(EFAULT);
+        }
+        self.ptr = self.ptr.wrapping_add(len);
+        self.length -= len;
+        Ok(())
+    }
 }