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Message-ID: <20240830160532.4a526a62@eugeo>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:05:32 +0100
From: Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>
To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Cc: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Miguel
Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Wedson
Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>, Björn Roy Baron
<bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Andreas
Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rust: Provide correct provenance when constructing
THIS_MODULE
On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:01:29 -0700
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com> wrote:
> Currently while defining `THIS_MODULE` symbol in `module!()`, the
> pointer used to contruct `ThisModule` is derived from an immutable
> reference of `__this_module`, which means the pointer doesn't have
> the provenance for writting, and that means any write to that pointer
> is UB regardless of data races or not. However, the usage of
> `THIS_MODULE` includes passing this pointer to functions that may write
> to it (probably in unsafe code), and this will create soundness issues.
>
> One way to fix this is using `addr_of_mut!()` but that requires the
> unstable feature "const_mut_refs". So instead of `addr_of_mut()!`,
> an extern static `Opaque` is used here: since `Opaque<T>` is transparent
> to `T`, an extern static `Opaque` will just wrap the C symbol (defined
> in a C compile unit) in an `Opaque`, which provides a pointer with
> writable provenance via `Opaque::get()`. This fix the potential UBs
> because of pointer provenance unmatched.
`const_mut_refs` is getting stablised so we should be able to use it
soon. I am slightly inclined to use `addr_of_mut!()` over `Opaque` in
this case so we can use it directly from bindgen.
That said, the current approach also LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>
>
> Reported-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
> ---
> rust/macros/module.rs | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/rust/macros/module.rs b/rust/macros/module.rs
> index 571ffa2e189c..aef3b132f32b 100644
> --- a/rust/macros/module.rs
> +++ b/rust/macros/module.rs
> @@ -217,7 +217,11 @@ pub(crate) fn module(ts: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
> // freed until the module is unloaded.
> #[cfg(MODULE)]
> static THIS_MODULE: kernel::ThisModule = unsafe {{
> - kernel::ThisModule::from_ptr(&kernel::bindings::__this_module as *const _ as *mut _)
> + extern \"C\" {{
> + static __this_module: kernel::types::Opaque<kernel::bindings::module>;
> + }}
> +
> + kernel::ThisModule::from_ptr(__this_module.get())
> }};
> #[cfg(not(MODULE))]
> static THIS_MODULE: kernel::ThisModule = unsafe {{
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