rust: sync: add Arc::{from_raw, into_raw}

These methods can be used to turn an `Arc` into a raw pointer and back,
in a way that preserves the metadata for fat pointers.

This is done using the unstable ptr_metadata feature [1]. However, it
could also be done using the unstable pointer_byte_offsets feature [2],
which is likely to have a shorter path to stabilization than
ptr_metadata.

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/81513 [1]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/96283 [2]
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@microsoft.com>
Co-developed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

rust/kernel/lib.rs

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #![feature(coerce_unsized)]
 #![feature(dispatch_from_dyn)]
 #![feature(new_uninit)]
+#![feature(ptr_metadata)]
 #![feature(receiver_trait)]
 #![feature(unsize)]
 

rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs

@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@
 };
 use alloc::boxed::Box;
 use core::{
-    alloc::AllocError,
+    alloc::{AllocError, Layout},
     fmt,
     marker::{PhantomData, Unsize},
     mem::{ManuallyDrop, MaybeUninit},
     ops::{Deref, DerefMut},
     pin::Pin,
-    ptr::NonNull,
+    ptr::{NonNull, Pointee},
 };
 use macros::pin_data;
 
@@ -215,6 +215,48 @@ unsafe fn from_inner(inner: NonNull<ArcInner<T>>) -> Self {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Convert the [`Arc`] into a raw pointer.
+    ///
+    /// The raw pointer has ownership of the refcount that this Arc object owned.
+    pub fn into_raw(self) -> *const T {
+        let ptr = self.ptr.as_ptr();
+        core::mem::forget(self);
+        // SAFETY: The pointer is valid.
+        unsafe { core::ptr::addr_of!((*ptr).data) }
+    }
+
+    /// Recreates an [`Arc`] instance previously deconstructed via [`Arc::into_raw`].
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// `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 };
+
+        let metadata: <T as Pointee>::Metadata = core::ptr::metadata(ptr);
+        // SAFETY: The metadata of `T` and `ArcInner<T>` is the same because `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 metadata: <ArcInner<T> as Pointee>::Metadata =
+            unsafe { core::mem::transmute_copy(&metadata) };
+        // 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 as *mut u8).sub(val_offset) as *mut () };
+        let ptr = core::ptr::from_raw_parts_mut(ptr, metadata);
+
+        // 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)) }
+    }
+
     /// Returns an [`ArcBorrow`] from the given [`Arc`].
     ///
     /// This is useful when the argument of a function call is an [`ArcBorrow`] (e.g., in a method