Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Binary Large Objects for Rust DebugFS

Greg KH
2025-10-21T07:10:02Z

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 12:26:12AM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> This series adds support for exposing binary large objects via Rust debugfs.
>
> The first two patches extend UserSliceReader and UserSliceWriter with partial
> read/write helpers.
>
> The series further introduces read_binary_file(), write_binary_file() and
> read_write_binary_file() methods for the Dir and ScopedDir types.
>
> It also introduces the BinaryWriter and BinaryReader traits, which are used to
> read/write the implementing type's binary representation with the help of the
> backing file operations from/to debugfs.
>
> Additional to some more generic blanked implementations for the BinaryWriter and
> BinaryReader traits it also provides implementations for common smart pointer
> types.
>
> Both samples (file-based and scoped) are updated with corresponding examples.
>
> A branch containing the patches can be found in [1].
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dakr/linux.git/log/?h=debugfs_blobs

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>