Re: [PATCH] uaccess: decouple INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER and CONFIG_RUST

From: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)

Date: Tue Mar 24 2026 - 10:05:26 EST




Le 23/10/2025 à 19:16, Yury Norov (NVIDIA) a écrit :
Commit 1f9a8286bc0c ("uaccess: always export _copy_[from|to]_user with
CONFIG_RUST") exports _copy_{from,to}_user() unconditionally, if RUST
is enabled. This pollutes exported symbols namespace, and spreads RUST
ifdefery in core files.

It's better to declare a corresponding helper under the rust/helpers,
similarly to how non-underscored copy_{from,to}_user() is handled.

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/usercopy.c | 4 ++--
rust/helpers/uaccess.c | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/usercopy.c b/lib/usercopy.c
index 7b17b83c8042..b00a3a957de6 100644
--- a/lib/usercopy.c
+++ b/lib/usercopy.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
/* out-of-line parts */
-#if !defined(INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER) || defined(CONFIG_RUST)
+#if !defined(INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER)
unsigned long _copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
{
return _inline_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ unsigned long _copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n
EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_from_user);
#endif
-#if !defined(INLINE_COPY_TO_USER) || defined(CONFIG_RUST)
+#if !defined(INLINE_COPY_TO_USER)
unsigned long _copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n)
{
return _inline_copy_to_user(to, from, n);
diff --git a/rust/helpers/uaccess.c b/rust/helpers/uaccess.c
index f49076f813cd..4629b2d15529 100644
--- a/rust/helpers/uaccess.c
+++ b/rust/helpers/uaccess.c
@@ -13,3 +13,15 @@ unsigned long rust_helper_copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from,
{
return copy_to_user(to, from, n);
}
+
+#ifdef INLINE_COPY_FROM_USER
+unsigned long rust_helper__copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
+{
+ return _inline_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
+}
+

Shouldn't the below part be guarded by INLINE_COPY_TO_USER ?


+unsigned long rust_helper__copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n)
+{
+ return _inline_copy_to_user(to, from, n);
+}
+#endif