[PATCH 1/2] stddef: Introduce struct_group() helper macro

* [PATCH 1/2] stddef: Introduce struct_group() helper macro
@ 2022-03-29 22:02 Tadeusz Struk
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From: Tadeusz Struk @ 2022-03-29 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable
  Cc: Tadeusz Struk, Keith Packard, Gustavo A . R . Silva,
	Rasmus Villemoes, Dan Williams, Daniel Vetter, Kees Cook

Please apply this to stable 5.10.y, 5.15.y
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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Upstream commit: 50d7bd38c3aa ("stddef: Introduce struct_group() helper macro")

Kernel code has a regular need to describe groups of members within a
structure usually when they need to be copied or initialized separately
from the rest of the surrounding structure. The generally accepted design
pattern in C is to use a named sub-struct:

        struct foo {
                int one;
                struct {
                        int two;
                        int three, four;
                } thing;
                int five;
        };

This would allow for traditional references and sizing:

        memcpy(&dst.thing, &src.thing, sizeof(dst.thing));

However, doing this would mean that referencing struct members enclosed
by such named structs would always require including the sub-struct name
in identifiers:

        do_something(dst.thing.three);

This has tended to be quite inflexible, especially when such groupings
need to be added to established code which causes huge naming churn.
Three workarounds exist in the kernel for this problem, and each have
other negative properties.

To avoid the naming churn, there is a design pattern of adding macro
aliases for the named struct:

        #define f_three thing.three

This ends up polluting the global namespace, and makes it difficult to
search for identifiers.

Another common work-around in kernel code avoids the pollution by avoiding
the named struct entirely, instead identifying the group's boundaries using
either a pair of empty anonymous structs of a pair of zero-element arrays:

        struct foo {
                int one;
                struct { } start;
                int two;
                int three, four;
                struct { } finish;
                int five;
        };

        struct foo {
                int one;
                int start[0];
                int two;
                int three, four;
                int finish[0];
                int five;
        };

This allows code to avoid needing to use a sub-struct named for member
references within the surrounding structure, but loses the benefits of
being able to actually use such a struct, making it rather fragile. Using
these requires open-coded calculation of sizes and offsets. The efforts
made to avoid common mistakes include lots of comments, or adding various
BUILD_BUG_ON()s. Such code is left with no way for the compiler to reason
about the boundaries (e.g. the "start" object looks like it's 0 bytes
in length), making bounds checking depend on open-coded calculations:

        if (length > offsetof(struct foo, finish) -
                     offsetof(struct foo, start))
                return -EINVAL;
        memcpy(&dst.start, &src.start, offsetof(struct foo, finish) -
                                       offsetof(struct foo, start));

However, the vast majority of places in the kernel that operate on
groups of members do so without any identification of the grouping,
relying either on comments or implicit knowledge of the struct contents,
which is even harder for the compiler to reason about, and results in
even more fragile manual sizing, usually depending on member locations
outside of the region (e.g. to copy "two" and "three", use the start of
"four" to find the size):

        BUILD_BUG_ON((offsetof(struct foo, four) <
                      offsetof(struct foo, two)) ||
                     (offsetof(struct foo, four) <
                      offsetof(struct foo, three));
        if (length > offsetof(struct foo, four) -
                     offsetof(struct foo, two))
                return -EINVAL;
        memcpy(&dst.two, &src.two, length);

In order to have a regular programmatic way to describe a struct
region that can be used for references and sizing, can be examined for
bounds checking, avoids forcing the use of intermediate identifiers,
and avoids polluting the global namespace, introduce the struct_group()
macro. This macro wraps the member declarations to create an anonymous
union of an anonymous struct (no intermediate name) and a named struct
(for references and sizing):

        struct foo {
                int one;
                struct_group(thing,
                        int two;
                        int three, four;
                );
                int five;
        };

        if (length > sizeof(src.thing))
                return -EINVAL;
        memcpy(&dst.thing, &src.thing, length);
        do_something(dst.three);

There are some rare cases where the resulting struct_group() needs
attributes added, so struct_group_attr() is also introduced to allow
for specifying struct attributes (e.g. __align(x) or __packed).
Additionally, there are places where such declarations would like to
have the struct be tagged, so struct_group_tagged() is added.

Given there is a need for a handful of UAPI uses too, the underlying
__struct_group() macro has been defined in UAPI so it can be used there
too.

To avoid confusing scripts/kernel-doc, hide the macro from its struct
parsing.

Co-developed-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210728023217.GC35706@embeddedor
Enhanced-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/41183a98-bdb9-4ad6-7eab-5a7292a6df84@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Enhanced-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1d9a2e6df2a9a35b2cdd50a9a68cac5991e7e5f0.camel@intel.com
Enhanced-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YQKa76A6XuFqgM03@phenom.ffwll.local
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>
---
 include/linux/stddef.h      | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/stddef.h | 24 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 72 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/stddef.h b/include/linux/stddef.h
index 998a4ba28eba..938216f8ab7e 100644
--- a/include/linux/stddef.h
+++ b/include/linux/stddef.h
@@ -36,4 +36,52 @@ enum {
 #define offsetofend(TYPE, MEMBER) \
 	(offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER)	+ sizeof_field(TYPE, MEMBER))
 
+/**
+ * struct_group() - Wrap a set of declarations in a mirrored struct
+ *
+ * @NAME: The identifier name of the mirrored sub-struct
+ * @MEMBERS: The member declarations for the mirrored structs
+ *
+ * Used to create an anonymous union of two structs with identical
+ * layout and size: one anonymous and one named. The former can be
+ * used normally without sub-struct naming, and the latter can be
+ * used to reason about the start, end, and size of the group of
+ * struct members.
+ */
+#define struct_group(NAME, MEMBERS...)	\
+	__struct_group(/* no tag */, NAME, /* no attrs */, MEMBERS)
+
+/**
+ * struct_group_attr() - Create a struct_group() with trailing attributes
+ *
+ * @NAME: The identifier name of the mirrored sub-struct
+ * @ATTRS: Any struct attributes to apply
+ * @MEMBERS: The member declarations for the mirrored structs
+ *
+ * Used to create an anonymous union of two structs with identical
+ * layout and size: one anonymous and one named. The former can be
+ * used normally without sub-struct naming, and the latter can be
+ * used to reason about the start, end, and size of the group of
+ * struct members. Includes structure attributes argument.
+ */
+#define struct_group_attr(NAME, ATTRS, MEMBERS...) \
+	__struct_group(/* no tag */, NAME, ATTRS, MEMBERS)
+
+/**
+ * struct_group_tagged() - Create a struct_group with a reusable tag
+ *
+ * @TAG: The tag name for the named sub-struct
+ * @NAME: The identifier name of the mirrored sub-struct
+ * @MEMBERS: The member declarations for the mirrored structs
+ *
+ * Used to create an anonymous union of two structs with identical
+ * layout and size: one anonymous and one named. The former can be
+ * used normally without sub-struct naming, and the latter can be
+ * used to reason about the start, end, and size of the group of
+ * struct members. Includes struct tag argument for the named copy,
+ * so the specified layout can be reused later.
+ */
+#define struct_group_tagged(TAG, NAME, MEMBERS...) \
+	__struct_group(TAG, NAME, /* no attrs */, MEMBERS)
+
 #endif
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/stddef.h b/include/uapi/linux/stddef.h
index ee8220f8dcf5..9f5da295ff1c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/stddef.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/stddef.h
@@ -1,6 +1,30 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
 #include <linux/compiler_types.h>
+#ifndef _UAPI_LINUX_STDDEF_H
+#define _UAPI_LINUX_STDDEF_H
 
 #ifndef __always_inline
 #define __always_inline inline
 #endif
+
+/**
+ * __struct_group() - Create a mirrored named and anonyomous struct
+ *
+ * @TAG: The tag name for the named sub-struct (usually empty)
+ * @NAME: The identifier name of the mirrored sub-struct
+ * @ATTRS: Any struct attributes (usually empty)
+ * @MEMBERS: The member declarations for the mirrored structs
+ *
+ * Used to create an anonymous union of two structs with identical layout
+ * and size: one anonymous and one named. The former's members can be used
+ * normally without sub-struct naming, and the latter can be used to
+ * reason about the start, end, and size of the group of struct members.
+ * The named struct can also be explicitly tagged for layer reuse, as well
+ * as both having struct attributes appended.
+ */
+#define __struct_group(TAG, NAME, ATTRS, MEMBERS...) \
+	union { \
+		struct { MEMBERS } ATTRS; \
+		struct TAG { MEMBERS } ATTRS NAME; \
+	}
+#endif
-- 
2.35.1


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