Re: [PATCH 2/8] rust: device: add drvdata accessors

From: Danilo Krummrich
Date: Sat Jul 05 2025 - 11:06:28 EST


On Sat, Jul 05, 2025 at 01:15:06PM +0200, Benno Lossin wrote:
> On Sat Jun 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM CEST, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > +impl Device<Internal> {
> > + /// Store a pointer to the bound driver's private data.
> > + pub fn set_drvdata(&self, data: impl ForeignOwnable) {
> > + // SAFETY: By the type invariants, `self.as_raw()` is a valid pointer to a `struct device`.
> > + unsafe { bindings::dev_set_drvdata(self.as_raw(), data.into_foreign().cast()) }
> > + }
> > +
> > + /// Take ownership of the private data stored in this [`Device`].
> > + ///
> > + /// # Safety
> > + ///
> > + /// - Must only be called once after a preceding call to [`Device::set_drvdata`].
> > + /// - The type `T` must match the type of the `ForeignOwnable` previously stored by
> > + /// [`Device::set_drvdata`].
> > + pub unsafe fn drvdata_obtain<T: ForeignOwnable>(&self) -> T {
> > + // SAFETY: By the type invariants, `self.as_raw()` is a valid pointer to a `struct device`.
> > + let ptr = unsafe { bindings::dev_get_drvdata(self.as_raw()) };
> > +
> > + // SAFETY: By the safety requirements of this function, `ptr` comes from a previous call to
> > + // `into_foreign()`.
>
> Well, you're also relying on `dev_get_drvdata` to return the same
> pointer that was given to `dev_set_drvdata`.
>
> Otherwise the safety docs look fine.

Great! What do you think about:

diff --git a/rust/kernel/device.rs b/rust/kernel/device.rs
index 146eba147d2f..b01cb8e8dab3 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/device.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/device.rs
@@ -80,8 +80,11 @@ pub unsafe fn drvdata_obtain<T: ForeignOwnable>(&self) -> T {
// SAFETY: By the type invariants, `self.as_raw()` is a valid pointer to a `struct device`.
let ptr = unsafe { bindings::dev_get_drvdata(self.as_raw()) };

- // SAFETY: By the safety requirements of this function, `ptr` comes from a previous call to
- // `into_foreign()`.
+ // SAFETY:
+ // - By the safety requirements of this function, `ptr` comes from a previous call to
+ // `into_foreign()`.
+ // - `dev_get_drvdata()` guarantees to return the same pointer given to `dev_set_drvdata()`
+ // in `into_foreign()`.
unsafe { T::from_foreign(ptr.cast()) }
}