Re: [PATCH 1/4] rust: types: add `ForeignOwnable::PointedTo`

Fiona Behrens
2025-02-05T19:59:07Z

Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org> writes:

> From: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
>
> Allow implementors to specify the foreign pointer type; this exposes
> information about the pointed-to type such as its alignment.
>
> This requires the trait to be `unsafe` since it is now possible for
> implementors to break soundness by returning a misaligned pointer.
>
> Encoding the pointer type in the trait (and avoiding pointer casts)
> allows the compiler to check that implementors return the correct
> pointer type. This is preferable to directly encoding the alignment in
> the trait using a constant as the compiler would be unable to check it.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
>

Reviewed-by: Fiona Behrens <me@kloenk.dev>