[PATCH v14 3/9] rust: Add missing SAFETY documentation for `ARef` example

From: Andreas Hindborg

Date: Wed Feb 04 2026 - 06:57:31 EST


From: Oliver Mangold <oliver.mangold@xxxxx>

SAFETY comment in rustdoc example was just 'TODO'. Fixed.

Original patch by Oliver Mangold <oliver.mangold@xxxxx> [1].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251117-unique-ref-v13-3-b5b243df1250@xxxxx [1]
Reviewed-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
rust/kernel/sync/aref.rs | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/aref.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/aref.rs
index 61caddfd89619..efe16a7fdfa5d 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync/aref.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync/aref.rs
@@ -129,12 +129,14 @@ pub unsafe fn from_raw(ptr: NonNull<T>) -> Self {
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
- /// use core::ptr::NonNull;
- /// use kernel::sync::aref::{ARef, RefCounted};
+ /// # use core::ptr::NonNull;
+ /// # use kernel::sync::aref::{ARef, RefCounted};
///
/// struct Empty {}
///
- /// # // SAFETY: TODO.
+ /// // SAFETY: The `RefCounted` implementation for `Empty` does not count references and never
+ /// // frees the underlying object. Thus we can act as owning an increment on the refcount for
+ /// // the object that we pass to the newly created `ARef`.
/// unsafe impl RefCounted for Empty {
/// fn inc_ref(&self) {}
/// unsafe fn dec_ref(_obj: NonNull<Self>) {}
@@ -142,7 +144,7 @@ pub unsafe fn from_raw(ptr: NonNull<T>) -> Self {
///
/// let mut data = Empty {};
/// let ptr = NonNull::<Empty>::new(&mut data).unwrap();
- /// # // SAFETY: TODO.
+ /// // SAFETY: We keep `data` around longer than the `ARef`.
/// let data_ref: ARef<Empty> = unsafe { ARef::from_raw(ptr) };
/// let raw_ptr: NonNull<Empty> = ARef::into_raw(data_ref);
///

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