Re: [PATCH 00/19] rust: lint improvements

[Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>]

On Wed,  4 Sep 2024 22:43:28 +0200
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This is a series that contains a series of lint-related things:
> 
>   - Cleanups and other improvements and fixes, including removing `allow`s that
>     are not needed anymore for different reasons and a workaround for
>     `dbg_macro` detection.
> 
>   - The enablement of some safety lints so that the toolchain enforces that we
>     write `// SAFETY` comments and `# Safety` sections properly.
> 
>   - The addition of `.clippy.toml`, which allows us to take advantage of a few
>     configuration options.
> 
>   - Start using the new `#[expect(...)]` feature and add documentation on it as
>     well as lints in general.
> 
> Overall, this should improve the quality of the code and documentation as well
> as reduce the time needed in reviews.
> 
> I want to mention Trevor's nice work on lints from a while ago [1]. I think we
> should still do something like that: discuss which lints we would like to have
> one-by-one and start enabling them (and perhaps have a file like Trevor proposed
> etc.).
> 
> For the moment, though, I am sending these, since we would like to have at least
> the safety-related ones enabled soon [2]: now that more code and developers
> are joining, it sounds like a good time to start enforcing it -- it should make
> new Rust kernel developers aware of the need of writing them, which has proven
> to be a common request from reviewers.
> 
> If needed, the series can be applied partially or split, but most of it should
> be fairly uncontroversial.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/pull/1025 [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CD29DF8F-7FF3-466F-9724-BC92C14A68BD@collabora.com/ [2]

Built with clippy locally and it's all clean.

Tested-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>

Apart from one `#[]`/`#![]` modification - which I think is fine as
long as it's intentional, everything LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>


> 
> Miguel Ojeda (19):
>   rust: workqueue: remove unneeded ``#[allow(clippy::new_ret_no_self)]`
>   rust: sort global Rust flags
>   rust: types: avoid repetition in `{As,From}Bytes` impls
>   rust: enable `clippy::undocumented_unsafe_blocks` lint
>   rust: enable `clippy::unnecessary_safety_comment` lint
>   rust: enable `clippy::unnecessary_safety_doc` lint
>   rust: enable `clippy::ignored_unit_patterns` lint
>   rust: enable `rustdoc::unescaped_backticks` lint
>   rust: init: remove unneeded `#[allow(clippy::disallowed_names)]`
>   rust: sync: remove unneeded
>     `#[allow(clippy::non_send_fields_in_send_ty)]`
>   rust: introduce `.clippy.toml`
>   rust: replace `clippy::dbg_macro` with `disallowed_macros`
>   rust: rbtree: fix `SAFETY` comments that should be `# Safety` sections
>   rust: provide proper code documentation titles
>   rust: enable Clippy's `check-private-items`
>   Documentation: rust: add coding guidelines on lints
>   rust: start using the `#[expect(...)]` attribute
>   Documentation: rust: discuss `#[expect(...)]` in the guidelines
>   rust: std_vendor: simplify `{ .. macro! .. }` with inner attributes
> 
>  .clippy.toml                             |   9 ++
>  .gitignore                               |   1 +
>  Documentation/rust/coding-guidelines.rst | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                              |   1 +
>  Makefile                                 |  15 ++-
>  rust/Makefile                            |   5 +-
>  rust/bindings/lib.rs                     |   1 +
>  rust/kernel/alloc/allocator.rs           |   2 +
>  rust/kernel/error.rs                     |  11 +-
>  rust/kernel/init.rs                      |  30 ++---
>  rust/kernel/init/__internal.rs           |  11 +-
>  rust/kernel/init/macros.rs               |  18 ++-
>  rust/kernel/ioctl.rs                     |   2 +-
>  rust/kernel/lib.rs                       |   1 +
>  rust/kernel/list.rs                      |   1 +
>  rust/kernel/list/arc_field.rs            |   2 +-
>  rust/kernel/print.rs                     |   5 +-
>  rust/kernel/rbtree.rs                    |   9 +-
>  rust/kernel/std_vendor.rs                |  16 ++-
>  rust/kernel/str.rs                       |   7 +-
>  rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs                  |   2 +-
>  rust/kernel/sync/arc/std_vendor.rs       |   2 +
>  rust/kernel/sync/condvar.rs              |   1 -
>  rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs                 |   6 +-
>  rust/kernel/types.rs                     |  74 ++++++------
>  rust/kernel/workqueue.rs                 |   9 +-
>  rust/uapi/lib.rs                         |   1 +
>  samples/rust/rust_print.rs               |   1 +
>  scripts/Makefile.build                   |   2 +-
>  29 files changed, 293 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 .clippy.toml
> 
> 
> base-commit: 68d3b6aa08708bb3907c2c13eaf4b3ccf4805160
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> 2.46.0