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, 36 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rust/ffi.rs b/rust/ffi.rs
index be153c4d551b..584f75b49862 100644
--- a/rust/ffi.rs
+++ b/rust/ffi.rs
@@ -10,4 +10,39 @@
 
 #![no_std]
 
-pub use core::ffi::*;
+macro_rules! alias {
+    ($($name:ident = $ty:ty;)*) => {$(
+        #[allow(non_camel_case_types, missing_docs)]
+        pub type $name = $ty;
+
+        // Check size compatibility with `core`.
+        const _: () = assert!(
+            core::mem::size_of::<$name>() == core::mem::size_of::<core::ffi::$name>()
+        );
+    )*}
+}
+
+alias! {
+    // `core::ffi::c_char` is either `i8` or `u8` depending on architecture. In the kernel, we use
+    // `-funsigned-char` so it's always mapped to `u8`.
+    c_char = u8;
+
+    c_schar = i8;
+    c_uchar = u8;
+
+    c_short = i16;
+    c_ushort = u16;
+
+    c_int = i32;
+    c_uint = u32;
+
+    // In the kernel, `intptr_t` is defined to be `long` in all platforms, so we can map the type to
+    // `isize`.
+    c_long = isize;
+    c_ulong = usize;
+
+    c_longlong = i64;
+    c_ulonglong = u64;
+}
+
+pub use core::ffi::c_void;