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([2409:40d7:e:c40c:33c3:4ace:eabf:e5ae]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-2ba0551185bsm36569085ad.71.2026.05.03.09.06.15 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 03 May 2026 09:06:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Arnav Sharma To: ojeda@kernel.org Cc: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnav Sharma Subject: [PATCH v2] rust: error: implement Display for Error Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 21:36:10 +0530 Message-ID: <20260503160610.8431-1-arnav4324@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Implement the fmt::Display trait for the kernel Error type. Unlike the existing Debug implementation which outputs 'EPERM()', Display produces cleaner user-facing output like 'EPERM', which is the idiomatic Rust way to present errors. This enables using {e} instead of {e:?} in format strings throughout the kernel's Rust code. Signed-off-by: Arnav Sharma --- rust/kernel/error.rs | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/rust/kernel/error.rs b/rust/kernel/error.rs index 05cf869ac090..d1b48a4ebd90 100644 --- a/rust/kernel/error.rs +++ b/rust/kernel/error.rs @@ -216,6 +216,31 @@ fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result { } } +impl fmt::Display for Error { + /// Displays the error name if available, otherwise the numeric error code. + /// + /// # Examples + /// + /// ``` + /// # use kernel::prelude::*; + /// # use kernel::str::CString; + /// let err = EPERM; + /// let s = CString::try_from_fmt(fmt!("{err}"))?; + /// assert_eq!(s.to_bytes(), "EPERM".as_bytes()); + /// # Ok::<(), Error>(()) + /// ``` + fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result { + match self.name() { + // Print out the numeric error code if no name can be found. + None => write!(f, "Unknown error {}", -self.0.get()), + // SAFETY: These strings are ASCII-only. + Some(name) => f.pad(unsafe { + core::str::from_utf8_unchecked(name.to_bytes()) + }), + } + } +} + impl From for Error { #[inline] fn from(_: AllocError) -> Error { -- 2.43.0