[PATCH 1/2] device: rust: improve safety comments

From: Danilo Krummrich
Date: Wed Jun 19 2024 - 09:40:12 EST


Improve the wording of safety comments to be more explicit about what
exactly is guaranteed to be valid.

Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
rust/kernel/device.rs | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/device.rs b/rust/kernel/device.rs
index e445e87fb7d7..851018eef885 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/device.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/device.rs
@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@
///
/// # Invariants
///
-/// The pointer stored in `Self` is non-null and valid for the lifetime of the `ARef` instance. In
-/// particular, the `ARef` instance owns an increment on the underlying object’s reference count.
+/// A `Device` instance represents a valid `struct device` created by the C portion of the kernel.
+///
+/// Instances of this type are always reference-counted, that is, a call to `get_device` ensures
+/// that the allocation remains valid at least until the matching call to `put_device`.
///
/// `bindings::device::release` is valid to be called from any thread, hence `ARef<Device>` can be
/// dropped from any thread.
@@ -58,7 +60,8 @@ pub unsafe fn from_raw(ptr: *mut bindings::device) -> ARef<Self> {
// CAST: `Self` is a `repr(transparent)` wrapper around `bindings::device`.
let ptr = ptr.cast::<Self>();

- // SAFETY: By the safety requirements, ptr is valid.
+ // SAFETY: `ptr` is valid by the safety requirements of this function. By the above call to
+ // `bindings::get_device` we also own a reference to the underlying `struct device`.
unsafe { ARef::from_raw(ptr::NonNull::new_unchecked(ptr)) }
}


base-commit: de6582833db0e695ba0c548e3cc2ad7dbb6aa260
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2.45.1