Remove unsound casting functions

The casting functions in `unsafe.rs` were unsound (i.e., they allowed
safe code to cause undefined behavior). While they did appear to be used
in a way that wouldn't cause UB the fact that there exists unsound
functions is unsettling.

This commit removes those functions and replaces it with a macro that
performs the same reification - the difference is that the macro call
will also include the checks which are required to prevent UB. A macro
was chosen instead of a function for two reasons:

1. A macro can keep the same code generation whereas a function would
   require going through an `Option` which has negative impacts on code
   generation (niche values cause poor DCE).
2. There exist other `unsafe` code blocks in the crate and an attempt to
   make Rhai 100% safe is completely out-of-scope for this merge
   request, so we may as well use `unsafe` in the macro.

Regarding (2) above, I may come back at a later date with a 100% safe
`reify` function but only once the other `unsafe` blocks are removed.
For posterity, said function would look something like:

```rust
fn reify<A: Any, C>(value: A) -> Option<C> {
    let mut v = Some(value);
    let v: &mut dyn Any = &mut v;
    v.downcast_mut::<Option<C>>().map(Option::take)
}
```
This commit is contained in:
Nathan Kent
2022-02-05 16:29:05 -08:00
parent 6a740a9fa1
commit 86d86a85e4
7 changed files with 94 additions and 266 deletions

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@@ -5,10 +5,9 @@
use super::call::FnCallArgs;
use super::callable_function::CallableFunction;
use super::native::{FnAny, SendSync};
use crate::r#unsafe::unsafe_cast;
use crate::tokenizer::Position;
use crate::types::dynamic::{DynamicWriteLock, Variant};
use crate::{Dynamic, NativeCallContext, RhaiResultOf, ERR};
use crate::{Dynamic, NativeCallContext, RhaiResultOf, ERR, reify};
#[cfg(feature = "no_std")]
use std::prelude::v1::*;
use std::{any::TypeId, mem};
@@ -46,11 +45,12 @@ pub fn by_value<T: Variant + Clone>(data: &mut Dynamic) -> T {
// If T is `&str`, data must be `ImmutableString`, so map directly to it
data.flatten_in_place();
let ref_str = data.as_str_ref().expect("&str");
let ref_t = unsafe { mem::transmute::<_, &T>(&ref_str) };
let ref_t = reify!(ref_str, |ref_t: &T| ref_t, || unreachable!());
ref_t.clone()
} else if TypeId::of::<T>() == TypeId::of::<String>() {
// If T is `String`, data must be `ImmutableString`, so map directly to it
unsafe_cast(mem::take(data).into_string().expect("`ImmutableString`"))
let t = mem::take(data).into_string().expect("`ImmutableString`");
reify!(t, |t: T| t, || unreachable!())
} else {
// We consume the argument and then replace it with () - the argument is not supposed to be used again.
// This way, we avoid having to clone the argument again, because it is already a clone when passed here.