Changeset e39d7b8 in mainline for abi/include/_bits/native.h

Timestamp:

2019-06-17T15:12:44Z (6 years ago)

Author:

Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky.jiri@…>

Children:

64b7854

Parents:

ef705e14

git-author:

Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky.jiri@…> (2019-06-16 17:59:34)

git-committer:

Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky.jiri@…> (2019-06-17 15:12:44)

Message:

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.

File:

• abi/include/_bits/native.h (modified) (1 diff)

abi/include/_bits/native.h

@@ -56 +56 @@
 typedef intptr_t  native_t;
 
+#ifdef KERNEL
+
+typedef sysarg_t uspace_addr_t;
+/* We might implement a way to check validity of the type some day. */
+#define uspace_ptr(type) uspace_addr_t
+#define USPACE_NULL 0
+
+#else /* !KERNEL */
+
+typedef void *uspace_addr_t;
+#define uspace_ptr(type) type *
+
+#endif
+
 __HELENOS_DECLS_END;