From: Sagar Taunk <sagartaunk2@gmail.com>
To: "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
"Sagar Taunk" <sagartaunk2@gmail.com>,
"Viresh Kumar" <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] rust: workqueue: replace SAFETY TODO for `WorkItemPointer` impl on `Pin<KBox<T>>`
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:49:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260430071930.73696-1-sagartaunk2@gmail.com> (raw)
The original implementation left a `SAFETY: TODO` comment on the
`WorkItemPointer` implementation for `Pin<KBox<T>>`. This patch documents
the safety requirements that make this implementation sound.
The safety argument follows the same structure as the `Arc<T>`
implementation and relies on three guarantees:
`__enqueue` strips the `Pin` wrapper via `Pin::into_inner_unchecked`
and leaks the box via `KBox::into_raw`, producing `*mut T` whose
allocation remains live for the duration of the queued work;
`work_container_of` safely reverses the `raw_get_work` offset arithmetic to
recover the exact `*mut T` that `__enqueue` produced; and the workqueue
guarantees `run` is called exactly once, making `KBox::from_raw` sound.
Signed-off-by: Sagar Taunk <sagartaunk2@gmail.com>
---
rust/kernel/workqueue.rs | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs b/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs
index 74c59f2b1c09..676ade0539e3 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/workqueue.rs
@@ -881,7 +881,15 @@ unsafe impl<T, const ID: u64> RawDelayedWorkItem<ID> for Arc<T>
{
}
-// SAFETY: TODO.
+// SAFETY: The `__enqueue` implementation in `RawWorkItem` uses a `work_struct` initialized with
+// the `run` method of this trait as the function pointer because:
+// - `__enqueue` gets the `work_struct` from the `Work<T, ID>` field embedded in `T`,
+// using `T::raw_get_work` on the pointer obtained from `KBox::into_raw`.
+// - The only safe way to create a `Work` object is through `Work::new`.
+// - `Work::new` makes sure that `T::Pointer::run` is passed to `init_work_with_key`.
+// - Finally, `Work` and `RawWorkItem` guarantee the correct `Work` field is used
+// because of the `ID` const generic bound, and `Work::new` picks the correct
+// implementation of `WorkItemPointer` for `Pin<KBox<T>>`.
unsafe impl<T, const ID: u64> WorkItemPointer<ID> for Pin<KBox<T>>
where
T: WorkItem<ID, Pointer = Self>,
--
2.54.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-30 7:21 UTC|newest]
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2026-04-30 7:19 Sagar Taunk [this message]
2026-04-30 8:41 ` [PATCH v2] rust: workqueue: replace SAFETY TODO for `WorkItemPointer` impl on `Pin<KBox<T>>` Alice Ryhl
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