rust: map `long` to `isize` and `char` to `u8`

The following FFI types are replaced compared to `core::ffi`:

1. `char` type is now always mapped to `u8`, since kernel uses
   `-funsigned-char` on the C code. `core::ffi` maps it to platform
   default ABI, which can be either signed or unsigned.

2. `long` is now always mapped to `isize`. It's very common in the
   kernel to use `long` to represent a pointer-sized integer, and in
   fact `intptr_t` is a typedef of `long` in the kernel. Enforce this
   mapping rather than mapping to `i32/i64` depending on platform can
   save us a lot of unnecessary casts.

Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240913213041.395655-5-gary@garyguo.net
[ Moved `uaccess` changes from the next commit, since they were
  irrefutable patterns that Rust >= 1.82.0 warns about. Reworded
  slightly and reformatted a few documentation comments. Rebased on
  top of `rust-next`. Added the removal of two casts to avoid Clippy
  warnings. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/rust/kernel/uaccess.rs b/rust/kernel/uaccess.rs
index 05b0b8d13b10d..cc044924867b8 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/uaccess.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/uaccess.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ use crate::{
     alloc::Flags,
     bindings,
     error::Result,
-    ffi::{c_ulong, c_void},
+    ffi::c_void,
     prelude::*,
     transmute::{AsBytes, FromBytes},
 };
@@ -224,13 +224,9 @@ impl UserSliceReader {
         if len > self.length {
             return Err(EFAULT);
         }
-        let Ok(len_ulong) = c_ulong::try_from(len) else {
-            return Err(EFAULT);
-        };
-        // SAFETY: `out_ptr` points into a mutable slice of length `len_ulong`, so we may write
+        // SAFETY: `out_ptr` points into a mutable slice of length `len`, so we may write
         // that many bytes to it.
-        let res =
-            unsafe { bindings::copy_from_user(out_ptr, self.ptr as *const c_void, len_ulong) };
+        let res = unsafe { bindings::copy_from_user(out_ptr, self.ptr as *const c_void, len) };
         if res != 0 {
             return Err(EFAULT);
         }
@@ -259,9 +255,6 @@ impl UserSliceReader {
         if len > self.length {
             return Err(EFAULT);
         }
-        let Ok(len_ulong) = c_ulong::try_from(len) else {
-            return Err(EFAULT);
-        };
         let mut out: MaybeUninit<T> = MaybeUninit::uninit();
         // SAFETY: The local variable `out` is valid for writing `size_of::<T>()` bytes.
         //
@@ -272,7 +265,7 @@ impl UserSliceReader {
             bindings::_copy_from_user(
                 out.as_mut_ptr().cast::<c_void>(),
                 self.ptr as *const c_void,
-                len_ulong,
+                len,
             )
         };
         if res != 0 {
@@ -335,12 +328,9 @@ impl UserSliceWriter {
         if len > self.length {
             return Err(EFAULT);
         }
-        let Ok(len_ulong) = c_ulong::try_from(len) else {
-            return Err(EFAULT);
-        };
-        // SAFETY: `data_ptr` points into an immutable slice of length `len_ulong`, so we may read
+        // SAFETY: `data_ptr` points into an immutable slice of length `len`, so we may read
         // that many bytes from it.
-        let res = unsafe { bindings::copy_to_user(self.ptr as *mut c_void, data_ptr, len_ulong) };
+        let res = unsafe { bindings::copy_to_user(self.ptr as *mut c_void, data_ptr, len) };
         if res != 0 {
             return Err(EFAULT);
         }
@@ -359,9 +349,6 @@ impl UserSliceWriter {
         if len > self.length {
             return Err(EFAULT);
         }
-        let Ok(len_ulong) = c_ulong::try_from(len) else {
-            return Err(EFAULT);
-        };
         // SAFETY: The reference points to a value of type `T`, so it is valid for reading
         // `size_of::<T>()` bytes.
         //
@@ -372,7 +359,7 @@ impl UserSliceWriter {
             bindings::_copy_to_user(
                 self.ptr as *mut c_void,
                 (value as *const T).cast::<c_void>(),
-                len_ulong,
+                len,
             )
         };
         if res != 0 {