From: "Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>
To: "Christian Schrefl" <chrisi.schrefl@gmail.com>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Lee Jones" <lee@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
Cc: "Gerald Wisböck" <gerald.wisboeck@feather.ink>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] rust: miscdevice: add additional data to MiscDeviceRegistration
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2025 17:37:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DAGEV65EU1DO.152XYF0ZYTM6P@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f491c61-e7b2-4a1f-b4f8-8ff691015655@gmail.com>
On Sat Jun 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM CEST, Christian Schrefl wrote:
> Yeah I understand that its not UB, but to me it seems a bit fragile and opaque why it is allowed.
> That's what I meant by "a bit iffy".
What's fragile about it? That someone could add a non-opaque field to
the struct? Or that one is not allowed to take an `&`?
> Alright but I doubt that realistic, since the `Data` would always at
> least be shared between the owner of `MiscDeviceRegistration` and the
> `fops` implementation. Meaning its always shared with syscall context
> and I don't think it makes sense to have a registration owed in
> that context.
That might be the case, but I think we should have this as a general
design guideline: avoid unnecessary trait bounds.
---
Cheers,
Benno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-07 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-30 20:46 [PATCH v4 0/3] rust: miscdevice: add additional data to MiscDeviceRegistration Christian Schrefl
2025-05-30 20:46 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] rust: implement `Wrapper<T>` for `Opaque<T>` Christian Schrefl
2025-05-30 20:53 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-05-30 21:43 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-05-30 20:46 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] rust: miscdevice: add additional data to MiscDeviceRegistration Christian Schrefl
2025-05-31 12:23 ` Benno Lossin
2025-06-02 21:16 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-06-03 23:29 ` Benno Lossin
2025-06-04 8:48 ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-06-04 9:54 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-06-04 10:13 ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-06-05 14:57 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-06-05 16:05 ` Benno Lossin
2025-06-05 16:52 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-06-05 17:27 ` Benno Lossin
2025-06-07 11:34 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-06-07 15:37 ` Benno Lossin [this message]
2025-06-07 15:39 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-06-07 19:05 ` Benno Lossin
2025-06-04 9:40 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-06-04 9:42 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-06-04 9:43 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-06-04 9:37 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-06-04 9:41 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-05-30 20:46 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] rust: miscdevice: adjust the rust_misc_device sample to use RegistrationData Christian Schrefl
2025-05-31 12:27 ` Benno Lossin
2025-05-31 13:40 ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-06-02 21:20 ` Christian Schrefl
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