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2026-03-07T22:06:17Zrust: ptr: add projection infrastructure2026-03-07T22:06:17ZGary Guogary@garyguo.net2026-03-02T16:42:35Zurn:sha1:f41941aab3acd33f13d65a2ae496329bc8ae4de0
Add a generic infrastructure for performing field and index projections on
raw pointers. This will form the basis of performing I/O projections.
Pointers manipulations are intentionally using the safe wrapping variants
instead of the unsafe variants, as the latter requires pointers to be
inside an allocation which is not necessarily true for I/O pointers.
This projection macro protects against rogue `Deref` implementation, which
can causes the projected pointer to be outside the bounds of starting
pointer. This is extremely unlikely and Rust has a lint to catch this, but
is unsoundness regardless. The protection works by inducing type inference
ambiguity when `Deref` is implemented.
This projection macro also stops projecting into unaligned fields (i.e.
fields of `#[repr(packed)]` structs), as misaligned pointers require
special handling. This is implemented by attempting to create reference to
projected field inside a `if false` block. Despite being unreachable, Rust
still checks that they're not unaligned fields.
The projection macro supports both fallible and infallible index
projections. These are described in detail inside the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302164239.284084-3-gary@kernel.org
[ * Add intro-doc links where possible,
* Fix typos and slightly improve wording, e.g. "as documentation
describes" -> "as the documentation of [`Self::proj`] describes",
* Add an empty line between regular and safety comments, before
examples, and between logically independent comments,
* Capitalize various safety comments.
- Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>