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From: Christian <christiansantoslima21@gmail.com>
To: Kane York <kanepyork@gmail.com>
Cc: a.hindborg@kernel.org, alex.gaynor@gmail.com,
	aliceryhl@google.com,  benno.lossin@proton.me,
	bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com,  dakr@kernel.org,
	gary@garyguo.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 ojeda@kernel.org, richard120310@gmail.com,
	rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,  tmgross@umich.edu,
	~lkcamp/patches@lists.sr.ht
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8] rust: transmute: Add methods for FromBytes trait
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:39:41 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABm2a9egd7xq5OwEB+pq21wSPJS-89wY5Z3J8Kpay+3EsywDpQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABeNrKVYy=9QKvTwnDPfRhXuJLCFgA9bbvd34V-P8jHLEJSGEg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, Kane.

> > +// SAFETY: If all bit patterns are acceptable for individual values in an array, then all bit
> > +// patterns are also acceptable for arrays of that type.
> > +unsafe impl<T: FromBytes> FromBytes for [T] {
> > +    fn from_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> Option<&Self> {
> > +        let slice_ptr = bytes.as_ptr().cast::<T>();
> > +        if bytes.len() % ::core::mem::size_of::<T>() == 0 && slice_ptr.is_aligned() {
> > +            // SAFETY: Since the code checks the size and alignment, the slice is valid.
> > +            unsafe { Some(::core::slice::from_raw_parts(slice_ptr, bytes.len())) }
>
> This is incorrect -- the second argument to slice::from_raw_parts is the
> element count, not the byte count.

I don't understand, did you mean that the safety comment should be
changed or the argument? If you can explain in more detail.

Thanks,
Christian

  reply	other threads:[~2025-07-28 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-24  4:28 [PATCH v8] rust: transmute: Add methods for FromBytes trait Christian S. Lima
2025-06-25  2:39 ` kernel test robot
2025-07-07  5:14 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-07-14 22:16   ` Christian
2025-07-22 14:06     ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-07-25 18:37       ` Christian
2025-07-26  2:57         ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-07-27  1:37 ` Kane York
2025-07-28 19:39   ` Christian [this message]
2025-07-28 21:21     ` K. York
2025-08-01 12:26 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-08-01 15:35   ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-08-01 17:47   ` Christian

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