source: mainline/abi/include/_bits/native.h@ e39d7b8

Last change on this file since e39d7b8 was e39d7b8, checked in by Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky.jiri@…>, 6 years ago

Change type of uspace pointers in kernel from pointer type to numeric type

From kernel's perspective, userspace addresses are not valid pointers,
and can only be used in calls to copy_to/from_uspace().
Therefore, we change the type of those arguments and variables to
uspace_addr_t which is an alias for sysarg_t.

This allows the compiler to catch accidental direct accesses to
userspace addresses.

Additionally, to avoid losing the type information in code,
a macro uspace_ptr(type) is used that translates to uspace_addr_t.
I makes no functional difference, but allows keeping the type information
in code in case we implement some sort of static checking for it in the future.

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1/*
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27 */
28
29/*
30 * Authors:
31 * Jiří Zárevúcky (jzr) <zarevucky.jiri@gmail.com>
32 */
33
34/** @addtogroup bits
35 * @{
36 */
37/** @file
38 * A bunch of type aliases HelenOS code uses.
39 *
40 * They were originally defined as either u/int32_t or u/int64_t,
41 * specifically for each architecture, but in practice they are
42 * currently assumed to be identical to u/intptr_t, so we do just that.
43 */
44
45#ifndef _BITS_NATIVE_H_
46#define _BITS_NATIVE_H_
47
48#include <inttypes.h>
49#include <_bits/decls.h>
50
51__HELENOS_DECLS_BEGIN;
52
53typedef uintptr_t pfn_t;
54typedef uintptr_t ipl_t;
55typedef uintptr_t sysarg_t;
56typedef intptr_t native_t;
57
58#ifdef KERNEL
59
60typedef sysarg_t uspace_addr_t;
61/* We might implement a way to check validity of the type some day. */
62#define uspace_ptr(type) uspace_addr_t
63#define USPACE_NULL 0
64
65#else /* !KERNEL */
66
67typedef void *uspace_addr_t;
68#define uspace_ptr(type) type *
69
70#endif
71
72__HELENOS_DECLS_END;
73
74#endif
75
76/** @}
77 */
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