Auto merge of #144081 - RalfJung:const-ptr-fragments, r=oli-obk

const-eval: full support for pointer fragments

This fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/const-eval/issues/72 and makes `swap_nonoverlapping` fully work in const-eval by enhancing per-byte provenance tracking with tracking of *which* of the bytes of the pointer this one is. Later, if we see all the same bytes in the exact same order, we can treat it like a whole pointer again without ever risking a leak of the data bytes (that encode the offset into the allocation). This lifts the limitation that was discussed quite a bit in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/137280.

For a concrete piece of code that used to fail and now works properly consider this example doing a byte-for-byte memcpy in const without using intrinsics:
```rust
use std::{mem::{self, MaybeUninit}, ptr};

type Byte = MaybeUninit<u8>;

const unsafe fn memcpy(dst: *mut Byte, src: *const Byte, n: usize) {
    let mut i = 0;
    while i < n {
        *dst.add(i) = *src.add(i);
        i += 1;
    }
}

const _MEMCPY: () = unsafe {
    let ptr = &42;
    let mut ptr2 = ptr::null::<i32>();
    // Copy from ptr to ptr2.
    memcpy(&mut ptr2 as *mut _ as *mut _, &ptr as *const _ as *const _, mem::size_of::<&i32>());
    assert!(*ptr2 == 42);
};
```
What makes this code tricky is that pointers are "opaque blobs" in const-eval, we cannot just let people look at the individual bytes since *we don't know what those bytes look like* -- that depends on the absolute address the pointed-to object will be placed at. The code above "breaks apart" a pointer into individual bytes, and then puts them back together in the same order elsewhere. This PR implements the logic to properly track how those individual bytes relate to the original pointer, and to recognize when they are in the right order again.

We still reject constants where the final value contains a not-fully-put-together pointer: I have no idea how one could construct an LLVM global where one byte is defined as "the 3rd byte of a pointer to that other global over there" -- and even if LLVM supports this somehow, we can leave implementing that to a future PR. It seems unlikely to me anyone would even want this, but who knows.^^

This also changes the behavior of Miri, by tracking the order of bytes with provenance and only considering a pointer to have valid provenance if all bytes are in the original order again. This is related to https://github.com/rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines/issues/558. It means one cannot implement XOR linked lists with strict provenance any more, which is however only of theoretical interest. Practically I am curious if anyone will show up with any code that Miri now complains about - that would be interesting data. Cc `@rust-lang/opsem`

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_const_eval/messages.ftl b/compiler/rustc_const_eval/messages.ftl
index 2985eafb63a..60518dafbf2 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_const_eval/messages.ftl
+++ b/compiler/rustc_const_eval/messages.ftl
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ const_eval_const_context = {$kind ->
 }
 
 const_eval_const_heap_ptr_in_final = encountered `const_allocate` pointer in final value that was not made global
-    .note = use `const_make_global` to make allocated pointers immutable before returning
+    .note = use `const_make_global` to turn allocated pointers into immutable globals before returning
 
 const_eval_const_make_global_ptr_already_made_global = attempting to call `const_make_global` twice on the same allocation {$alloc}
 
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ const_eval_mutable_borrow_escaping =
 
 const_eval_mutable_ptr_in_final = encountered mutable pointer in final value of {const_eval_intern_kind}
 
+const_eval_partial_pointer_in_final = encountered partial pointer in final value of {const_eval_intern_kind}
+    .note = while pointers can be broken apart into individual bytes during const-evaluation, only complete pointers (with all their bytes in the right order) are supported in the final value
+
 const_eval_nested_static_in_thread_local = #[thread_local] does not support implicit nested statics, please create explicit static items and refer to them instead
 
 const_eval_non_const_await =
@@ -299,10 +302,8 @@ const_eval_panic = evaluation panicked: {$msg}
 
 const_eval_panic_non_str = argument to `panic!()` in a const context must have type `&str`
 
-const_eval_partial_pointer_copy =
-    unable to copy parts of a pointer from memory at {$ptr}
-const_eval_partial_pointer_overwrite =
-    unable to overwrite parts of a pointer in memory at {$ptr}
+const_eval_partial_pointer_read =
+    unable to read parts of a pointer from memory at {$ptr}
 const_eval_pointer_arithmetic_overflow =
     overflowing pointer arithmetic: the total offset in bytes does not fit in an `isize`