Re: [PATCH] rust: enable `clippy::ptr_as_ptr` lint

[Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>]

On Fri Mar 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM CET, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> In Rust 1.51.0, Clippy introduced the `ignored_unit_patterns` lint [1]:

You link to the `ptr_as_ptr` lint though, is this a typo?

>> Though `as` casts between raw pointers are not terrible,
>> `pointer::cast` is safer because it cannot accidentally change the
>> pointer's mutability, nor cast the pointer to other types like `usize`.
>
> There are a few classes of changes required:
> - Modules generated by bindgen are marked
>   `#[allow(clippy::ptr_as_ptr)]`.
> - Inferred casts (` as _`) are replaced with `.cast()`.
> - Ascribed casts (` as *... T`) are replaced with `.cast::<T>()`.
> - Multistep casts from references (` as *const _ as *const T`) are
>   replaced with `let x: *const _ = &x;` and `.cast()` or `.cast::<T>()`
>   according to the previous rules. The intermediate `let` binding is
>   required because `(x as *const _).cast::<T>()` results in inference
>   failure.
> - Native literal C strings are replaced with `c_str!().as_char_ptr()`.

These all seem very nice, thanks! I think it would also be a good idea
to enable `ptr_cast_constness` [1], since those are the other kind of
`as` usage that we should be doing via `cast_mut`/`cast_const`.

There are still some legitimate uses of `as` casts, when unsizing
values. I don't know if these two lints can trigger on those, it would
be nice if they don't. So those should continue to use `as`, but other
than that, there shouldn't be any `as` in our code :)

[1]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#ptr_cast_constness

(I will take a look at the patch itself a bit later)

---
Cheers,
Benno

> Apply these changes and enable the lint -- no functional change
> intended.
>
> Link: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#ptr_as_ptr [1]
> Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Makefile                               |  1 +
>  rust/bindings/lib.rs                   |  1 +
>  rust/kernel/alloc/allocator_test.rs    |  2 +-
>  rust/kernel/alloc/kvec.rs              |  4 ++--
>  rust/kernel/device.rs                  |  5 +++--
>  rust/kernel/devres.rs                  |  2 +-
>  rust/kernel/error.rs                   |  2 +-
>  rust/kernel/fs/file.rs                 |  2 +-
>  rust/kernel/kunit.rs                   | 15 +++++++--------
>  rust/kernel/lib.rs                     |  4 ++--
>  rust/kernel/list/impl_list_item_mod.rs |  2 +-
>  rust/kernel/pci.rs                     |  2 +-
>  rust/kernel/platform.rs                |  4 +++-
>  rust/kernel/print.rs                   | 11 +++++------
>  rust/kernel/seq_file.rs                |  3 ++-
>  rust/kernel/str.rs                     |  2 +-
>  rust/kernel/sync/poll.rs               |  2 +-
>  rust/kernel/workqueue.rs               | 10 +++++-----
>  rust/uapi/lib.rs                       |  1 +
>  19 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)