From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
To: Sagar Taunk <sagartaunk@proton.me>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
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"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
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"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
"Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@kernel.org>,
"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
"Onur Özkan" <work@onurozkan.dev>,
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linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] rust: net: netlink: Migrate to zerocopy's IntoBytes
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:32:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aquzyg0T67vu43T3@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260915144231.31932-1-sagartaunk@proton.me>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 02:42:44PM +0000, Sagar Taunk wrote:
> Replace the kernel's own `transmute::FromBytes` and `AsBytes` traits
> with their zerocopy equivalents. Specifically, this updates
> `GenlMsg::put` to rely on `IntoBytes` for converting attributes into
> byte slices.
>
> Also, add `Immutable` trait bound on `GenlMsg::put` as zerocopy
> splits the `no interior mutability` guarantee that `AsBytes` bundled
> together.
>
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1241
> Signed-off-by: Sagar Taunk <sagartaunk@proton.me>
> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Thanks, this change is ok with me.
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Can you send this to the net folks? Please update your patch title to
[PATCH net-next vX] according to the guidelines outlined in:
Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
Alice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 14:42 [PATCH v3] rust: net: netlink: Migrate to zerocopy's IntoBytes Sagar Taunk
2026-09-17 9:32 ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
2026-09-18 0:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-18 0:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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