Implement raw API

benches/mod.rs

@@ -1,59 +1,22 @@
 #![feature(test)]
 extern crate test;
 
-use std::{
-    alloc::{alloc_zeroed, dealloc, Layout},
-    ptr::NonNull,
-};
-
-// AlignedBuffer is like a Box<[u8; N]> except that it is always N-byte aligned
-struct AlignedBuffer<const N: usize>(NonNull<[u8; N]>);
-
-impl<const N: usize> AlignedBuffer<N> {
-    fn layout() -> Layout {
-        Layout::from_size_align(N, N).unwrap()
-    }
-
-    fn new() -> Self {
-        let p = unsafe { alloc_zeroed(Self::layout()) } as *mut [u8; N];
-        Self(NonNull::new(p).unwrap())
-    }
-
-    fn buf(&mut self) -> &mut [u8; N] {
-        unsafe { self.0.as_mut() }
-    }
-}
-
-impl<const N: usize> Drop for AlignedBuffer<N> {
-    fn drop(&mut self) {
-        unsafe { dealloc(self.0.as_ptr() as *mut u8, Self::layout()) }
-    }
-}
-
-// Used to benchmark the throughput of getrandom in an optimal scenario.
-// The buffer is hot, and does not require initialization.
 #[inline(always)]
 fn bench<const N: usize>(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
-    let mut ab = AlignedBuffer::<N>::new();
-    let buf = ab.buf();
     b.iter(|| {
+        let mut buf = [0u8; N];
         getrandom::getrandom(&mut buf[..]).unwrap();
         test::black_box(&buf);
     });
     b.bytes = N as u64;
 }
 
-// Used to benchmark the throughput of getrandom is a slightly less optimal
-// scenario. The buffer is still hot, but requires initialization.
 #[inline(always)]
-fn bench_with_init<const N: usize>(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
-    let mut ab = AlignedBuffer::<N>::new();
-    let buf = ab.buf();
+fn bench_raw<const N: usize>(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
     b.iter(|| {
-        for byte in buf.iter_mut() {
-            *byte = 0;
-        }
-        getrandom::getrandom(&mut buf[..]).unwrap();
+        let mut buf = core::mem::MaybeUninit::<[u8; N]>::uninit();
+        // TODO: use `cast` on MSRV bump to 1.38
+        unsafe { getrandom::getrandom_raw(buf.as_mut_ptr() as *mut u8, N).unwrap() };
         test::black_box(&buf);
     });
     b.bytes = N as u64;
@@ -71,24 +34,24 @@ fn bench_seed(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
     bench::<SEED>(b);
 }
 #[bench]
-fn bench_seed_init(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
-    bench_with_init::<SEED>(b);
+fn bench_seed_raw(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
+    bench_raw::<SEED>(b);
 }
 
 #[bench]
 fn bench_page(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
     bench::<PAGE>(b);
 }
 #[bench]
-fn bench_page_init(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
-    bench_with_init::<PAGE>(b);
+fn bench_page_raw(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
+    bench_raw::<PAGE>(b);
 }
 
 #[bench]
 fn bench_large(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
     bench::<LARGE>(b);
 }
 #[bench]
-fn bench_large_init(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
-    bench_with_init::<LARGE>(b);
+fn bench_large_raw(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
+    bench_raw::<LARGE>(b);
 }

src/3ds.rs

@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
 use crate::util_libc::sys_fill_exact;
 use crate::Error;
 
-pub fn getrandom_inner(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
-    sys_fill_exact(dest, |buf| unsafe {
-        libc::getrandom(buf.as_mut_ptr() as *mut libc::c_void, buf.len(), 0)
+pub unsafe fn getrandom_inner(dst: *mut u8, len: usize) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    // TODO: use `cast` on MSRV bump to 1.38
+    sys_fill_exact(dst, len, |dst, len| {
+        libc::getrandom(dst as *mut libc::c_void, len, 0)
     })
 }

src/bsd_arandom.rs

@@ -10,27 +10,25 @@
 use crate::{util_libc::sys_fill_exact, Error};
 use core::ptr;
 
-fn kern_arnd(buf: &mut [u8]) -> libc::ssize_t {
+unsafe fn kern_arnd(dst: *mut u8, mut len: usize) -> libc::ssize_t {
     static MIB: [libc::c_int; 2] = [libc::CTL_KERN, libc::KERN_ARND];
-    let mut len = buf.len();
-    let ret = unsafe {
-        libc::sysctl(
-            MIB.as_ptr(),
-            MIB.len() as libc::c_uint,
-            buf.as_mut_ptr() as *mut _,
-            &mut len,
-            ptr::null(),
-            0,
-        )
-    };
+    // TODO: use `cast` on MSRV bump to 1.38
+    let ret = libc::sysctl(
+        MIB.as_ptr(),
+        MIB.len() as libc::c_uint,
+        dst as *mut libc::c_void,
+        &mut len,
+        ptr::null(),
+        0,
+    );
     if ret == -1 {
         -1
     } else {
         len as libc::ssize_t
     }
 }
 
-pub fn getrandom_inner(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
+pub unsafe fn getrandom_inner(mut dst: *mut u8, mut len: usize) -> Result<(), Error> {
     // getrandom(2) was introduced in FreeBSD 12.0 and NetBSD 10.0
     #[cfg(target_os = "freebsd")]
     {
@@ -40,14 +38,17 @@ pub fn getrandom_inner(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
             unsafe extern "C" fn(*mut u8, libc::size_t, libc::c_uint) -> libc::ssize_t;
 
         if let Some(fptr) = GETRANDOM.ptr() {
-            let func: GetRandomFn = unsafe { core::mem::transmute(fptr) };
-            return sys_fill_exact(dest, |buf| unsafe { func(buf.as_mut_ptr(), buf.len(), 0) });
+            let func: GetRandomFn = core::mem::transmute(fptr);
+            return sys_fill_exact(dst, len, |dst, len| func(dst, len, 0));
         }
     }
     // Both FreeBSD and NetBSD will only return up to 256 bytes at a time, and
     // older NetBSD kernels will fail on longer buffers.
-    for chunk in dest.chunks_mut(256) {
-        sys_fill_exact(chunk, kern_arnd)?
+    while len != 0 {
+        let chunk_len = core::cmp::min(len, 256);
+        sys_fill_exact(dst, chunk_len, |dst, len| kern_arnd(dst, len))?;
+        dst = dst.add(chunk_len);
+        len -= chunk_len;
     }
     Ok(())
 }

src/custom.rs

@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ macro_rules! register_custom_getrandom {
     ($path:path) => {
         // We use an extern "C" function to get the guarantees of a stable ABI.
         #[no_mangle]
-        extern "C" fn __getrandom_custom(dest: *mut u8, len: usize) -> u32 {
+        extern "C" fn __getrandom_custom(dst: *mut u8, len: usize) -> u32 {
             let f: fn(&mut [u8]) -> Result<(), $crate::Error> = $path;
-            let slice = unsafe { ::core::slice::from_raw_parts_mut(dest, len) };
+            let slice = unsafe { ::core::slice::from_raw_parts_mut(dst, len) };
             match f(slice) {
                 Ok(()) => 0,
                 Err(e) => e.code().get(),
@@ -90,11 +90,11 @@ macro_rules! register_custom_getrandom {
 }
 
 #[allow(dead_code)]
-pub fn getrandom_inner(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
+pub fn getrandom_inner(dst: *mut u8, len: usize) -> Result<(), Error> {
     extern "C" {
-        fn __getrandom_custom(dest: *mut u8, len: usize) -> u32;
+        fn __getrandom_custom(dst: *mut u8, len: usize) -> u32;
     }
-    let ret = unsafe { __getrandom_custom(dest.as_mut_ptr(), dest.len()) };
+    let ret = unsafe { __getrandom_custom(dst, len) };
     match NonZeroU32::new(ret) {
         None => Ok(()),
         Some(code) => Err(Error::from(code)),

src/dragonfly.rs

@@ -13,15 +13,15 @@ use crate::{
     Error,
 };
 
-pub fn getrandom_inner(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
+pub unsafe fn getrandom_inner(dst: *mut u8, len: usize) -> Result<(), Error> {
     static GETRANDOM: Weak = unsafe { Weak::new("getrandom\0") };
     type GetRandomFn = unsafe extern "C" fn(*mut u8, libc::size_t, libc::c_uint) -> libc::ssize_t;
 
     // getrandom(2) was introduced in DragonflyBSD 5.7
     if let Some(fptr) = GETRANDOM.ptr() {
-        let func: GetRandomFn = unsafe { core::mem::transmute(fptr) };
-        return sys_fill_exact(dest, |buf| unsafe { func(buf.as_mut_ptr(), buf.len(), 0) });
+        let func: GetRandomFn = core::mem::transmute(fptr);
+        sys_fill_exact(dst, len, |dst, len| func(dst, len, 0))
     } else {
-        use_file::getrandom_inner(dest)
+        use_file::getrandom_inner(dst, len)
     }
 }

src/espidf.rs

@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ extern "C" {
     fn esp_fill_random(buf: *mut c_void, len: usize) -> u32;
 }
 
-pub fn getrandom_inner(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
+pub unsafe fn getrandom_inner(dst: *mut u8, len: usize) -> Result<(), Error> {
     // Not that NOT enabling WiFi, BT, or the voltage noise entropy source (via `bootloader_random_enable`)
     // will cause ESP-IDF to return pseudo-random numbers based on the voltage noise entropy, after the initial boot process:
     // https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/api-reference/system/random.html
     //
     // However tracking if some of these entropy sources is enabled is way too difficult to implement here
-    unsafe { esp_fill_random(dest.as_mut_ptr().cast(), dest.len()) };
-
+    // TODO: use `cast` on MSRV bump to 1.38
+    esp_fill_random(dst as *mut c_void, len);
     Ok(())
 }

src/fuchsia.rs

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ extern "C" {
     fn zx_cprng_draw(buffer: *mut u8, length: usize);
 }
 
-pub fn getrandom_inner(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
-    unsafe { zx_cprng_draw(dest.as_mut_ptr(), dest.len()) }
+pub unsafe fn getrandom_inner(dst: *mut u8, len: usize) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    zx_cprng_draw(dst, len);
     Ok(())
 }

src/ios.rs

@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ extern "C" {
     fn SecRandomCopyBytes(rnd: *const c_void, count: usize, bytes: *mut u8) -> i32;
 }
 
-pub fn getrandom_inner(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
+pub unsafe fn getrandom_inner(dst: *mut u8, len: usize) -> Result<(), Error> {
     // Apple's documentation guarantees kSecRandomDefault is a synonym for NULL.
-    let ret = unsafe { SecRandomCopyBytes(null(), dest.len(), dest.as_mut_ptr()) };
+    let ret = SecRandomCopyBytes(null(), len, dst);
     // errSecSuccess (from SecBase.h) is always zero.
     if ret != 0 {
         Err(Error::IOS_SEC_RANDOM)

src/js.rs

@@ -27,28 +27,36 @@ thread_local!(
     static RNG_SOURCE: Result<RngSource, Error> = getrandom_init();
 );
 
-pub(crate) fn getrandom_inner(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
+pub(crate) unsafe fn getrandom_inner(mut dst: *mut u8, mut len: usize) -> Result<(), Error> {
     RNG_SOURCE.with(|result| {
         let source = result.as_ref().map_err(|&e| e)?;
 
         match source {
             RngSource::Node(n) => {
-                if n.random_fill_sync(dest).is_err() {
+                // We have to create a slice to pass it to the Node function.
+                // Since `dst` may be uninitialized, we have to initialize it first.
+                core::ptr::write_bytes(dst, 0, len);
+                let dst = core::slice::from_raw_parts_mut(dst, len);
+                if n.random_fill_sync(dst).is_err() {
                     return Err(Error::NODE_RANDOM_FILL_SYNC);
                 }
             }
             RngSource::Browser(crypto, buf) => {
                 // getRandomValues does not work with all types of WASM memory,
                 // so we initially write to browser memory to avoid exceptions.
-                for chunk in dest.chunks_mut(BROWSER_CRYPTO_BUFFER_SIZE) {
+                while len != 0 {
+                    let chunk_len = core::cmp::min(len, BROWSER_CRYPTO_BUFFER_SIZE);
                     // The chunk can be smaller than buf's length, so we call to
                     // JS to create a smaller view of buf without allocation.
-                    let sub_buf = buf.subarray(0, chunk.len() as u32);
+                    let sub_buf = buf.subarray(0, chunk_len as u32);
 
                     if crypto.get_random_values(&sub_buf).is_err() {
                         return Err(Error::WEB_GET_RANDOM_VALUES);
                     }
-                    sub_buf.copy_to(chunk);
+                    sub_buf.raw_copy_to_ptr(dst);
+
+                    dst = dst.add(chunk_len);
+                    len -= chunk_len;
                 }
             }
         };

src/lib.rs

@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ cfg_if! {
     }
 }
 
-/// Fill `dest` with random bytes from the system's preferred random number
+/// Fill `dst` with random bytes from the system's preferred random number
 /// source.
 ///
 /// This function returns an error on any failure, including partial reads. We
@@ -264,9 +264,39 @@ cfg_if! {
 /// In general, `getrandom` will be fast enough for interactive usage, though
 /// significantly slower than a user-space CSPRNG; for the latter consider
 /// [`rand::thread_rng`](https://docs.rs/rand/*/rand/fn.thread_rng.html).
-pub fn getrandom(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
-    if dest.is_empty() {
+pub fn getrandom(dst: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    if dst.is_empty() {
         return Ok(());
     }
-    imp::getrandom_inner(dest)
+    unsafe { getrandom_raw(dst.as_mut_ptr(), dst.len()) }
+}
+
+/// Raw version of the `getrandom` function.
+///
+/// If this function returns `Ok(())`, then it's safe to assume that the
+/// `len` random bytes were written to the memory pointed by `dst`.
+///
+/// # Safety
+///
+/// `dst` MUST be [valid] for writes of `len` bytes.
+///
+/// [valid]: core::ptr#safety
+///
+/// # Examples
+///
+/// ```ignore
+/// # // We ignore this doctest because `MaybeUninit` was stabilized
+/// # // in Rust 1.36, while this crate has MSRV equal to 1.34.
+/// # fn main() -> Result<(), getrandom::Error> {
+/// const BUF_SIZE: usize = 1024;
+///
+/// let buf: [u8; BUF_SIZE] = unsafe {
+///     let mut buf = core::mem::MaybeUninit::uninit();
+///     getrandom::getrandom_raw(buf.as_mut_ptr() as *mut u8, BUF_SIZE)?;
+///     buf.assume_init()
+/// };
+/// # Ok(()) }
+/// ```
+pub unsafe fn getrandom_raw(dst: *mut u8, len: usize) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    imp::getrandom_inner(dst, len)
 }

src/linux_android.rs

@@ -13,15 +13,16 @@ use crate::{
     {use_file, Error},
 };
 
-pub fn getrandom_inner(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
+pub unsafe fn getrandom_inner(dst: *mut u8, len: usize) -> Result<(), Error> {
     // getrandom(2) was introduced in Linux 3.17
     static HAS_GETRANDOM: LazyBool = LazyBool::new();
     if HAS_GETRANDOM.unsync_init(is_getrandom_available) {
-        sys_fill_exact(dest, |buf| unsafe {
-            getrandom(buf.as_mut_ptr() as *mut libc::c_void, buf.len(), 0)
+        // TODO: use `cast` on MSRV bump to 1.38
+        sys_fill_exact(dst, len, |dst, len| {
+            getrandom(dst as *mut libc::c_void, len, 0)
         })
     } else {
-        use_file::getrandom_inner(dest)
+        use_file::getrandom_inner(dst, len)
     }
 }