Re: [PATCH 12/12] rust: pin-init: internal: init: add escape hatch for referencing initialized fields

From: kernel test robot
Date: Fri Jan 09 2026 - 04:47:45 EST


Hi Benno,

kernel test robot noticed the following build warnings:

[auto build test WARNING on rust/rust-next]
[also build test WARNING on linus/master v6.19-rc4 next-20260109]
[cannot apply to rust/pin-init-next]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]

url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Benno-Lossin/rust-pin-init-allow-the-crate-to-refer-to-itself-as-pin-init-in-doc-tests/20260108-234753
base: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux rust-next
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260108135127.3153925-13-lossin%40kernel.org
patch subject: [PATCH 12/12] rust: pin-init: internal: init: add escape hatch for referencing initialized fields
config: x86_64-rhel-9.4-rust (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260109/202601091003.kjIJiuUn-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: clang version 20.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 87f0227cb60147a26a1eeb4fb06e3b505e9c7261)
rustc: rustc 1.88.0 (6b00bc388 2025-06-23)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260109/202601091003.kjIJiuUn-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202601091003.kjIJiuUn-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> warning: large size difference between variants
--> rust/pin-init/internal/src/init.rs:59:1
|
59 | / enum InitializerAttribute {
60 | | DefaultError(DefaultErrorAttribute),
| | ----------------------------------- the largest variant contains at least 224 bytes
61 | | DisableInitializedFieldAccess,
| | ----------------------------- the second-largest variant carries no data at all
62 | | }
| |_^ the entire enum is at least 224 bytes
|
= help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#large_enum_variant
= note: `-W clippy::large-enum-variant` implied by `-W clippy::all`
= help: to override `-W clippy::all` add `#[allow(clippy::large_enum_variant)]`
help: consider boxing the large fields to reduce the total size of the enum
|
60 - DefaultError(DefaultErrorAttribute),
60 + DefaultError(Box<DefaultErrorAttribute>),
|

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