Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] rust: uaccess: add userspace pointers

[Carlos López]

On 8/2/24 16:47, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> +    /// Create a reader that can access the same range of data.
> +    ///
> +    /// Reading from the clone does not advance the current reader.
> +    ///
> +    /// The caller should take care to not introduce TOCTOU issues, as described
> +    /// in the documentation for [`UserSlice`].
> +    pub fn clone_reader(&self) -> UserSliceReader {
> +        UserSliceReader {
> +            ptr: self.ptr,
> +            length: self.length,
> +        }
> +    }

Just out of curiosity, is there any reason why this is not implemented
in terms of the Clone trait?

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Carlos López
Security Engineer
SUSE Software Solutions