Add typedef's for MPS buffer size types

Most buffers that MPS deals with are small and representable
with integer types of width 16-bit or more.

For highly memory constrained systems, it is therefore a potential
for significant memory savings to use 16-bit types for buffer sizes
throughout MPS.

In prepraration for this, this commit introduces typdefs

```
   mbedtls_mps_size_t
   mbedtls_mps_stored_size_t
```

for buffer sizes in the MPS implementation and the MPS structures,
respectively.

So far, those MUST be defined as `size_t`: While an effort has been made
to write most of MPS code in terms of `mbedtls_mps_[stored_]size_t` in a
way that would allow narrower types, those aren't yet supported. Still,
we retain the typedefs in order to avoid unnecessary rewriting of a large
body of the MPS codebase.

Signed-off-by: Hanno Becker <hanno.becker@arm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Hanno Becker 2021-01-12 07:11:11 +00:00
parent 13cd7846a0
commit d2f9f53f7f

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#ifndef MBEDTLS_MPS_COMMON_H
#define MBEDTLS_MPS_COMMON_H
#include <stdio.h>
/**
* \name SECTION: MPS Configuration
*
@ -52,4 +54,55 @@
/* \} name SECTION: MPS Configuration */
/**
* \name SECTION: Common types
*
* Various common types used throughout MPS.
* \{
*/
/** \brief The type of buffer sizes and offsets used in MPS structures.
*
* This is an unsigned integer type that should be large enough to
* hold the length of any buffer resp. message processed by MPS.
*
* The reason to pick a value as small as possible here is
* to reduce the size of MPS structures.
*
* \warning Care has to be taken when using a narrower type
* than ::mbedtls_mps_size_t here because of
* potential truncation during conversion.
*
* \warning Handshake messages in TLS may be up to 2^24 ~ 16Mb in size.
* If mbedtls_mps_[opt_]stored_size_t is smaller than that, the
* maximum handshake message is restricted accordingly.
*
* For now, we use the default type of size_t throughout, and the use of
* smaller types or different types for ::mbedtls_mps_size_t and
* ::mbedtls_mps_stored_size_t is not yet supported.
*
*/
typedef size_t mbedtls_mps_stored_size_t;
#define MBEDTLS_MPS_SIZE_MAX ( (mbedtls_mps_size_t) -1 )
/** \brief The type of buffer sizes and offsets used in the MPS API
* and implementation.
*
* This must be at least as wide as ::mbedtls_stored_size_t but
* may be chosen to be strictly larger if more suitable for the
* target architecture.
*
* For example, in a test build for ARM Thumb, using uint_fast16_t
* instead of uint16_t reduced the code size from 1060 Byte to 962 Byte,
* so almost 10%.
*/
typedef size_t mbedtls_mps_size_t;
#if (mbedtls_mps_size_t) -1 > (mbedtls_mps_stored_size_t) -1
#error "Misconfiguration of mbedtls_mps_size_t and mbedtls_mps_stored_size_t."
#endif
/* \} SECTION: Common types */
#endif /* MBEDTLS_MPS_COMMON_H */