Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] rust: devres: get rid of Devres' inner Arc

[Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 12:27:18PM +0200, Benno Lossin wrote:
> On Thu Jun 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM CEST, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 09:13:24PM -0700, Boqun Feng wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:54:01PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> > +#[pin_data(PinnedDrop)]
> >> > +pub struct Devres<T> {
> >> 
> >> It makes me realize: I think we need to make `T` being `Send`? Because
> >> the devm callback can happen on a different thread other than
> >> `Devres::new()` and the callback may drop `T` because of revoke(), so we
> >> are essientially sending `T`. Alternatively we can make `Devres::new()`
> >> and its friend require `T` being `Send`.
> >> 
> >> If it's true, we need a separate patch that "Fixes" this.
> >
> > Indeed, that needs a fix.
> 
> Oh and we have no `'static` bound on `T` either... We should require
> that as well.

I don't think we actually need that, The Devres instance can't out-live a &T
passed into it. And the &T can't out-live the &Device<Bound>, hence we're
guaranteed that devres_callback() is never called because Devres::drop() will be
able successfully unregister the callback given that we're still in the
&Device<Bound> scope.

The only thing that could technically out-live the &Device<Bound> would be
&'static T, but that would obviously be fine.

Do I miss anything?