rust: qemu_api: introduce MaybeUninit field projection

Add a macro that makes it possible to convert a MaybeUninit<> into
another MaybeUninit<> for a single field within it.  Furthermore, it is
possible to use the resulting MaybeUninitField<> in APIs that take the
parent object, such as memory_region_init_io().

This allows removing some of the undefined behavior from instance_init()
functions, though this may not be the definitive implementation.

Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 86 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rust/qemu-api/src/lib.rs b/rust/qemu-api/src/lib.rs
index 93902fc..c78198f 100644
--- a/rust/qemu-api/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/qemu-api/src/lib.rs
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ pub mod qdev;
 pub mod qom;
 pub mod sysbus;
 pub mod timer;
+pub mod uninit;
 pub mod vmstate;
 pub mod zeroable;
 
diff --git a/rust/qemu-api/src/uninit.rs b/rust/qemu-api/src/uninit.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..04123b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/qemu-api/src/uninit.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+//! Access fields of a [`MaybeUninit`]
+
+use std::{
+    mem::MaybeUninit,
+    ops::{Deref, DerefMut},
+};
+
+pub struct MaybeUninitField<'a, T, U> {
+    parent: &'a mut MaybeUninit<T>,
+    child: *mut U,
+}
+
+impl<'a, T, U> MaybeUninitField<'a, T, U> {
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    pub fn new(parent: &'a mut MaybeUninit<T>, child: *mut U) -> Self {
+        MaybeUninitField { parent, child }
+    }
+
+    /// Return a constant pointer to the containing object of the field.
+    ///
+    /// Because the `MaybeUninitField` remembers the containing object,
+    /// it is possible to use it in foreign APIs that initialize the
+    /// child.
+    pub fn parent(f: &Self) -> *const T {
+        f.parent.as_ptr()
+    }
+
+    /// Return a mutable pointer to the containing object.
+    ///
+    /// Because the `MaybeUninitField` remembers the containing object,
+    /// it is possible to use it in foreign APIs that initialize the
+    /// child.
+    pub fn parent_mut(f: &mut Self) -> *mut T {
+        f.parent.as_mut_ptr()
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a, T, U> Deref for MaybeUninitField<'a, T, U> {
+    type Target = MaybeUninit<U>;
+
+    fn deref(&self) -> &MaybeUninit<U> {
+        // SAFETY: self.child was obtained by dereferencing a valid mutable
+        // reference; the content of the memory may be invalid or uninitialized
+        // but MaybeUninit<_> makes no assumption on it
+        unsafe { &*(self.child.cast()) }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a, T, U> DerefMut for MaybeUninitField<'a, T, U> {
+    fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut MaybeUninit<U> {
+        // SAFETY: self.child was obtained by dereferencing a valid mutable
+        // reference; the content of the memory may be invalid or uninitialized
+        // but MaybeUninit<_> makes no assumption on it
+        unsafe { &mut *(self.child.cast()) }
+    }
+}
+
+/// ```
+/// #[derive(Debug)]
+/// struct S {
+///     x: u32,
+///     y: u32,
+/// }
+///
+/// # use std::mem::MaybeUninit;
+/// # use qemu_api::{assert_match, uninit_field_mut};
+///
+/// let mut s: MaybeUninit<S> = MaybeUninit::zeroed();
+/// uninit_field_mut!(s, x).write(5);
+/// let s = unsafe { s.assume_init() };
+/// assert_match!(s, S { x: 5, y: 0 });
+/// ```
+#[macro_export]
+macro_rules! uninit_field_mut {
+    ($container:expr, $($field:tt)+) => {{
+        let container__: &mut ::std::mem::MaybeUninit<_> = &mut $container;
+        let container_ptr__ = container__.as_mut_ptr();
+
+        // SAFETY: the container is not used directly, only through a MaybeUninit<>,
+        // so the safety is delegated to the caller and to final invocation of
+        // assume_init()
+        let target__ = unsafe { std::ptr::addr_of_mut!((*container_ptr__).$($field)+) };
+        $crate::uninit::MaybeUninitField::new(container__, target__)
+    }};
+}