expose host-to-target path conversion to interpreted program

README.md

@@ -576,6 +576,21 @@ extern "Rust" {
 
     /// Miri-provided extern function to deallocate memory.
     fn miri_dealloc(ptr: *mut u8, size: usize, align: usize);
+
+    /// Convert a path from the host Miri runs on to the target Miri interprets.
+    /// Performs conversion of path separators as needed.
+    ///
+    /// Usually Miri performs this kind of conversion automatically. However, manual conversion
+    /// might be necessary when reading an environment variable that was set of the host
+    /// (such as TMPDIR) and using it as a target path.
+    ///
+    /// Only works with isolation disabled.
+    ///
+    /// `in` must point to a null-terminated string, and will be read as the input host path.
+    /// `out` must point to at least `out_size` many bytes, and the result will be stored there
+    /// with a null terminator.
+    /// Returns 0 if the `out` buffer was large enough, and the required size otherwise.
+    fn miri_host_to_target_path(path: *const i8, out: *mut i8, out_size: usize) -> usize;
 }
 ```
 

src/shims/foreign_items.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use std::{collections::hash_map::Entry, io::Write, iter};
+use std::{collections::hash_map::Entry, io::Write, iter, path::Path};
 
 use log::trace;
 
@@ -442,6 +442,21 @@ pub trait EvalContextExt<'mir, 'tcx: 'mir>: crate::MiriInterpCxExt<'mir, 'tcx> {
                 }
                 this.machine.static_roots.push(alloc_id);
             }
+            "miri_host_to_target_path" => {
+                let [ptr, out, out_size] = this.check_shim(abi, Abi::Rust, link_name, args)?;
+                let ptr = this.read_pointer(ptr)?;
+                let out = this.read_pointer(out)?;
+                let out_size = this.read_scalar(out_size)?.to_machine_usize(this)?;
+
+                // The host affects program behavior here, so this requires isolation to be disabled.
+                this.check_no_isolation("`miri_host_to_target_path`")?;
+
+                // We read this as a plain OsStr and write it as a path, which will convert it to the target.
+                let path = this.read_os_str_from_c_str(ptr)?.to_owned();
+                let (success, needed_size) = this.write_path_to_c_str(Path::new(&path), out, out_size)?;
+                // Return value: 0 on success, otherwise the size it would have needed.
+                this.write_int(if success { 0 } else { needed_size }, dest)?;
+            }
 
             // Obtains the size of a Miri backtrace. See the README for details.
             "miri_backtrace_size" => {

tests/pass-dep/shims/libc-fs.rs

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #![feature(io_error_uncategorized)]
 
 use std::convert::TryInto;
-use std::ffi::CString;
+use std::ffi::{CStr, CString};
 use std::fs::{canonicalize, remove_dir_all, remove_file, File};
 use std::io::{Error, ErrorKind, Write};
 use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;
@@ -23,20 +23,21 @@ fn main() {
 }
 
 fn tmp() -> PathBuf {
-    std::env::var("MIRI_TEMP")
-        .map(|tmp| {
-            // MIRI_TEMP is set outside of our emulated
-            // program, so it may have path separators that don't
-            // correspond to our target platform. We normalize them here
-            // before constructing a `PathBuf`
-
-            #[cfg(windows)]
-            return PathBuf::from(tmp.replace("/", "\\"));
-
-            #[cfg(not(windows))]
-            return PathBuf::from(tmp.replace("\\", "/"));
-        })
-        .unwrap_or_else(|_| std::env::temp_dir())
+    let path = std::env::var("MIRI_TEMP")
+        .unwrap_or_else(|_| std::env::temp_dir().into_os_string().into_string().unwrap());
+    // These are host paths. We need to convert them to the target.
+    let path = CString::new(path).unwrap();
+    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(1024);
+
+    unsafe {
+        extern "Rust" {
+            fn miri_host_to_target_path(path: *const i8, out: *mut i8, out_size: usize) -> usize;
+        }
+        let ret = miri_host_to_target_path(path.as_ptr(), out.as_mut_ptr(), out.capacity());
+        assert_eq!(ret, 0);
+        let out = CStr::from_ptr(out.as_ptr()).to_str().unwrap();
+        PathBuf::from(out)
+    }
 }
 
 /// Prepare: compute filename and make sure the file does not exist.

tests/pass-dep/shims/libc-misc.rs

@@ -7,15 +7,23 @@ use std::os::unix::io::AsRawFd;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
 fn tmp() -> PathBuf {
-    std::env::var("MIRI_TEMP")
-        .map(|tmp| {
-            // MIRI_TEMP is set outside of our emulated
-            // program, so it may have path separators that don't
-            // correspond to our target platform. We normalize them here
-            // before constructing a `PathBuf`
-            return PathBuf::from(tmp.replace("\\", "/"));
-        })
-        .unwrap_or_else(|_| std::env::temp_dir())
+    use std::ffi::{CStr, CString};
+
+    let path = std::env::var("MIRI_TEMP")
+        .unwrap_or_else(|_| std::env::temp_dir().into_os_string().into_string().unwrap());
+    // These are host paths. We need to convert them to the target.
+    let path = CString::new(path).unwrap();
+    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(1024);
+
+    unsafe {
+        extern "Rust" {
+            fn miri_host_to_target_path(path: *const i8, out: *mut i8, out_size: usize) -> usize;
+        }
+        let ret = miri_host_to_target_path(path.as_ptr(), out.as_mut_ptr(), out.capacity());
+        assert_eq!(ret, 0);
+        let out = CStr::from_ptr(out.as_ptr()).to_str().unwrap();
+        PathBuf::from(out)
+    }
 }
 
 /// Test allocating variant of `realpath`.

tests/pass/shims/fs.rs

@@ -31,20 +31,23 @@ fn main() {
 }
 
 fn tmp() -> PathBuf {
-    std::env::var("MIRI_TEMP")
-        .map(|tmp| {
-            // MIRI_TEMP is set outside of our emulated
-            // program, so it may have path separators that don't
-            // correspond to our target platform. We normalize them here
-            // before constructing a `PathBuf`
-
-            #[cfg(windows)]
-            return PathBuf::from(tmp.replace("/", "\\"));
-
-            #[cfg(not(windows))]
-            return PathBuf::from(tmp.replace("\\", "/"));
-        })
-        .unwrap_or_else(|_| std::env::temp_dir())
+    use std::ffi::{CStr, CString};
+
+    let path = std::env::var("MIRI_TEMP")
+        .unwrap_or_else(|_| std::env::temp_dir().into_os_string().into_string().unwrap());
+    // These are host paths. We need to convert them to the target.
+    let path = CString::new(path).unwrap();
+    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(1024);
+
+    unsafe {
+        extern "Rust" {
+            fn miri_host_to_target_path(path: *const i8, out: *mut i8, out_size: usize) -> usize;
+        }
+        let ret = miri_host_to_target_path(path.as_ptr(), out.as_mut_ptr(), out.capacity());
+        assert_eq!(ret, 0);
+        let out = CStr::from_ptr(out.as_ptr()).to_str().unwrap();
+        PathBuf::from(out)
+    }
 }
 
 /// Prepare: compute filename and make sure the file does not exist.