[PATCH v3 1/2] rust: transmute: implement FromBytes and AsBytes for inhabited ZSTs

[Alexandre Courbot]

This is useful when using types that may or may not be empty in generic
code relying on these traits. It is also safe because technically a
no-op.

Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 rust/kernel/transmute.rs | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/transmute.rs b/rust/kernel/transmute.rs
index be5dbf3829e2..a888a312e7ff 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/transmute.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/transmute.rs
@@ -170,6 +170,10 @@ macro_rules! impl_frombytes {
 }
 
 impl_frombytes! {
+    // SAFETY: Inhabited ZSTs only have one possible bit pattern.
+    (),
+    {<T>} core::marker::PhantomData<T>,
+
     // SAFETY: All bit patterns are acceptable values of the types below.
     u8, u16, u32, u64, usize,
     i8, i16, i32, i64, isize,
@@ -230,6 +234,10 @@ macro_rules! impl_asbytes {
 }
 
 impl_asbytes! {
+    // SAFETY: Inhabited ZSTs only have one possible bit pattern.
+    (),
+    {<T>} core::marker::PhantomData<T>,
+
     // SAFETY: Instances of the following types have no uninitialized portions.
     u8, u16, u32, u64, usize,
     i8, i16, i32, i64, isize,

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