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2026-03-07rust: ptr: add projection infrastructureGary Guo
Add a generic infrastructure for performing field and index projections on raw pointers. This will form the basis of performing I/O projections. Pointers manipulations are intentionally using the safe wrapping variants instead of the unsafe variants, as the latter requires pointers to be inside an allocation which is not necessarily true for I/O pointers. This projection macro protects against rogue `Deref` implementation, which can causes the projected pointer to be outside the bounds of starting pointer. This is extremely unlikely and Rust has a lint to catch this, but is unsoundness regardless. The protection works by inducing type inference ambiguity when `Deref` is implemented. This projection macro also stops projecting into unaligned fields (i.e. fields of `#[repr(packed)]` structs), as misaligned pointers require special handling. This is implemented by attempting to create reference to projected field inside a `if false` block. Despite being unreachable, Rust still checks that they're not unaligned fields. The projection macro supports both fallible and infallible index projections. These are described in detail inside the documentation. Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org> Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302164239.284084-3-gary@kernel.org [ * Add intro-doc links where possible, * Fix typos and slightly improve wording, e.g. "as documentation describes" -> "as the documentation of [`Self::proj`] describes", * Add an empty line between regular and safety comments, before examples, and between logically independent comments, * Capitalize various safety comments. - Danilo ] Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
2026-03-07rust: ptr: add `KnownSize` trait to support DST size info extractionGary Guo
Add a `KnownSize` trait which is used obtain a size from a raw pointer's metadata. This makes it possible to obtain size information on a raw slice pointer. This is similar to Rust `core::mem::size_of_val_raw` which is not yet stable. Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org> Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302164239.284084-2-gary@kernel.org [ Fix wording in doc-comment. - Danilo ] Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
2026-01-19rust: ptr: replace unneeded use of `build_assert`Alexandre Courbot
Since `ALIGN` is a const parameter, this assertion can be done in const context using the `assert!` macro. Suggested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216-ptr_assert-v1-1-d8b2d5c5741d@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2025-10-20rust: remove spurious `use core::fmt::Debug`Tamir Duberstein
We want folks to use `kernel::fmt` but this is only used for `derive` so can be removed entirely. This backslid in commit ea60cea07d8c ("rust: add `Alignment` type"). Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251018-cstr-core-v18-9-9378a54385f8@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2025-09-22rust: add `Alignment` typeAlexandre Courbot
Alignment operations are very common in the kernel. Since they are always performed using a power-of-two value, enforcing this invariant through a dedicated type leads to fewer bugs and can improve the generated code. Introduce the `Alignment` type, inspired by the nightly Rust type of the same name and providing the same interface, and a new `Alignable` trait allowing unsigned integers to be aligned up or down. Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> [ Used `build_assert!`, added intra-doc link, `allow`ed `clippy::incompatible_msrv`, added `feature(const_option)`, capitalized safety comment. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>