revert unsound generalization of SingleSegmentAllocator

capnp/src/message.rs

@@ -902,21 +902,21 @@ unsafe impl<'a> Allocator for ScratchSpaceHeapAllocator<'a> {
 /// You can reuse a `SingleSegmentAllocator` by calling `message::Builder::into_allocator()`,
 /// or by initially passing it to `message::Builder::new()` as a `&mut SingleSegmentAllocator`.
 /// Such reuse can save significant amounts of zeroing.
-pub struct SingleSegmentAllocator<T: AsMut<[u8]>> {
-    segment: T,
+pub struct SingleSegmentAllocator<'a> {
+    segment: &'a mut [u8],
     segment_allocated: bool,
 }
 
-impl<T: AsMut<[u8]>> SingleSegmentAllocator<T> {
+impl<'a> SingleSegmentAllocator<'a> {
     /// Writes zeroes into the entire buffer and constructs a new allocator from it.
     ///
     /// If the buffer is large, this operation could be relatively expensive. If you want to reuse
     /// the same scratch space in a later message, you should reuse the entire
     /// `SingleSegmentAllocator`, to avoid paying this full cost again.
-    pub fn new(mut segment: T) -> SingleSegmentAllocator<T> {
+    pub fn new(segment: &'a mut [u8]) -> SingleSegmentAllocator<'a> {
         #[cfg(not(feature = "unaligned"))]
         {
-            if segment.as_mut().as_ptr() as usize % BYTES_PER_WORD != 0 {
+            if segment.as_ptr() as usize % BYTES_PER_WORD != 0 {
                 panic!(
                     "Segment must be 8-byte aligned, or you must enable the \"unaligned\" \
                         feature in the capnp crate"
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ impl<T: AsMut<[u8]>> SingleSegmentAllocator<T> {
         }
 
         // We need to ensure that the buffer is zeroed.
-        for b in segment.as_mut() {
+        for b in &mut segment[..] {
             *b = 0;
         }
         SingleSegmentAllocator {
@@ -935,9 +935,9 @@ impl<T: AsMut<[u8]>> SingleSegmentAllocator<T> {
     }
 }
 
-unsafe impl<T: AsMut<[u8]>> Allocator for SingleSegmentAllocator<T> {
+unsafe impl<'a> Allocator for SingleSegmentAllocator<'a> {
     fn allocate_segment(&mut self, minimum_size: u32) -> (*mut u8, u32) {
-        let available_word_count = self.segment.as_mut().len() / BYTES_PER_WORD;
+        let available_word_count = self.segment.len() / BYTES_PER_WORD;
         if (minimum_size as usize) > available_word_count {
             panic!(
                 "Allocation too large: asked for {minimum_size} words, \
@@ -947,16 +947,15 @@ unsafe impl<T: AsMut<[u8]>> Allocator for SingleSegmentAllocator<T> {
             panic!("Tried to allocated two segments in a SingleSegmentAllocator.")
         } else {
             self.segment_allocated = true;
-            let segment_mut = self.segment.as_mut();
             (
-                segment_mut.as_mut_ptr(),
-                (segment_mut.len() / BYTES_PER_WORD) as u32,
+                self.segment.as_mut_ptr(),
+                (self.segment.len() / BYTES_PER_WORD) as u32,
             )
         }
     }
 
     unsafe fn deallocate_segment(&mut self, ptr: *mut u8, _word_size: u32, words_used: u32) {
-        let seg_ptr = self.segment.as_mut().as_mut_ptr();
+        let seg_ptr = self.segment.as_mut_ptr();
         if ptr == seg_ptr {
             // Rezero the slice to allow reuse of the allocator. We only need to write
             // words that we know might contain nonzero values.