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BTree's `insert_fit` breaks pointer provenance rules · Issue #78477 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub

This code violates pointer provenance rules:

    fn insert_fit(&mut self, key: K, val: V) -> *mut V {
        debug_assert!(self.node.len() < CAPACITY);

        unsafe {
            slice_insert(self.node.keys_mut(), self.idx, key);
            slice_insert(self.node.vals_mut(), self.idx, val);
            self.node.as_leaf_mut().len += 1;

            self.node.val_mut_at(self.idx)
        }
    }

Specifically, self.node.keys_mut() returns a slice covering the previously existing elements of this node, but it is used to also access the new element one-past-the-end of the previous slice.

Either slice_insert needs to be passed a slice covering all the memory it needs to access (of type &mut [MaybeUninit<_>]), or else it needs to be passed a raw pointer (that may access the entire buffer) and a length. But keys_mut/vals_mut can only be used to access elements that already exist, not to initialize new elements.

Cc @ssomers


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