[PATCH v4 1/2] rust: sync: add `ArcBorrow::from_raw`

[Alice Ryhl]

Allows access to a value in an `Arc` that is currently held as a raw
pointer due to use of `Arc::into_raw`, without destroying or otherwise
consuming that raw pointer.

This is a dependency of the linked list that Rust Binder uses. The
linked list uses this method when iterating over the linked list [1].

Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240402-linked-list-v1-6-b1c59ba7ae3b@xxxxxxxxxx [1]
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
index 7d4c4bf58388..53addb8876c2 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs
@@ -137,6 +137,39 @@ struct ArcInner<T: ?Sized> {
     data: T,
 }
 
+impl<T: ?Sized> ArcInner<T> {
+    /// Converts a pointer to the contents of an [`Arc`] into a pointer to the [`ArcInner`].
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// `ptr` must have been returned by a previous call to [`Arc::into_raw`], and the `Arc` must
+    /// not yet have been destroyed.
+    unsafe fn container_of(ptr: *const T) -> NonNull<ArcInner<T>> {
+        let refcount_layout = Layout::new::<bindings::refcount_t>();
+        // SAFETY: The caller guarantees that the pointer is valid.
+        let val_layout = Layout::for_value(unsafe { &*ptr });
+        // SAFETY: We're computing the layout of a real struct that existed when compiling this
+        // binary, so its layout is not so large that it can trigger arithmetic overflow.
+        let val_offset = unsafe { refcount_layout.extend(val_layout).unwrap_unchecked().1 };
+
+        // Pointer casts leave the metadata unchanged. This is okay because the metadata of `T` and
+        // `ArcInner<T>` is the same since `ArcInner` is a struct with `T` as its last field.
+        //
+        // This is documented at:
+        // <https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/trait.Pointee.html>.
+        let ptr = ptr as *const ArcInner<T>;
+
+        // SAFETY: The pointer is in-bounds of an allocation both before and after offsetting the
+        // pointer, since it originates from a previous call to `Arc::into_raw` on an `Arc` that is
+        // still valid.
+        let ptr = unsafe { ptr.byte_sub(val_offset) };
+
+        // SAFETY: The pointer can't be null since you can't have an `ArcInner<T>` value at the null
+        // address.
+        unsafe { NonNull::new_unchecked(ptr.cast_mut()) }
+    }
+}
+
 // This is to allow [`Arc`] (and variants) to be used as the type of `self`.
 impl<T: ?Sized> core::ops::Receiver for Arc<T> {}
 
@@ -232,27 +265,13 @@ pub fn into_raw(self) -> *const T {
     /// `ptr` must have been returned by a previous call to [`Arc::into_raw`]. Additionally, it
     /// must not be called more than once for each previous call to [`Arc::into_raw`].
     pub unsafe fn from_raw(ptr: *const T) -> Self {
-        let refcount_layout = Layout::new::<bindings::refcount_t>();
-        // SAFETY: The caller guarantees that the pointer is valid.
-        let val_layout = Layout::for_value(unsafe { &*ptr });
-        // SAFETY: We're computing the layout of a real struct that existed when compiling this
-        // binary, so its layout is not so large that it can trigger arithmetic overflow.
-        let val_offset = unsafe { refcount_layout.extend(val_layout).unwrap_unchecked().1 };
-
-        // Pointer casts leave the metadata unchanged. This is okay because the metadata of `T` and
-        // `ArcInner<T>` is the same since `ArcInner` is a struct with `T` as its last field.
-        //
-        // This is documented at:
-        // <https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/trait.Pointee.html>.
-        let ptr = ptr as *const ArcInner<T>;
-
-        // SAFETY: The pointer is in-bounds of an allocation both before and after offsetting the
-        // pointer, since it originates from a previous call to `Arc::into_raw` and is still valid.
-        let ptr = unsafe { ptr.byte_sub(val_offset) };
+        // SAFETY: The caller promises that this pointer originates from a call to `into_raw` on an
+        // `Arc` that is still valid.
+        let ptr = unsafe { ArcInner::container_of(ptr) };
 
         // SAFETY: By the safety requirements we know that `ptr` came from `Arc::into_raw`, so the
         // reference count held then will be owned by the new `Arc` object.
-        unsafe { Self::from_inner(NonNull::new_unchecked(ptr.cast_mut())) }
+        unsafe { Self::from_inner(ptr) }
     }
 
     /// Returns an [`ArcBorrow`] from the given [`Arc`].
@@ -453,6 +472,27 @@ unsafe fn new(inner: NonNull<ArcInner<T>>) -> Self {
             _p: PhantomData,
         }
     }
+
+    /// Creates an [`ArcBorrow`] to an [`Arc`] that has previously been deconstructed with
+    /// [`Arc::into_raw`].
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// * The provided pointer must originate from a call to [`Arc::into_raw`].
+    /// * For the duration of the lifetime annotated on this `ArcBorrow`, the reference count must
+    ///   not hit zero.
+    /// * For the duration of the lifetime annotated on this `ArcBorrow`, there must not be a
+    ///   [`UniqueArc`] reference to this value.
+    pub unsafe fn from_raw(ptr: *const T) -> Self {
+        // SAFETY: The caller promises that this pointer originates from a call to `into_raw` on an
+        // `Arc` that is still valid.
+        let ptr = unsafe { ArcInner::container_of(ptr) };
+
+        // SAFETY: The caller promises that the value remains valid since the reference count must
+        // not hit zero, and no mutable reference will be created since that would involve a
+        // `UniqueArc`.
+        unsafe { Self::new(ptr) }
+    }
 }
 
 impl<T: ?Sized> From<ArcBorrow<'_, T>> for Arc<T> {

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