Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] rust: pin-init: fix incorrect accessor reference lifetime

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When a field has been initialized, `init!`/`pin_init!` create a reference
> or pinned reference to the field so it can be accessed later during the
> initialization of other fields. However, the reference it created is
> incorrectly `&'static` rather than just the scope of the initializer.
>
> This means that you can do
>
>     init!(Foo {
>         a: 1,
>         _: {
>             let b: &'static u32 = a;
>         }
>     })
>
> which is unsound.
>
> This series fix the issue. Details can be found in the second patch.

Applied to `rust-fixes` (originally, half a day ago) -- thanks!

There are a couple typos in the contents of #2, but I didn't change
them since I imagine you may want to do that upstream (relinguished,
transfer -> transfers). I only fixed a couple nits in the commit
messages since I assume that has no impact on your processes:

    [ Reworded for missing word. - Miguel ]

    [ Reworded for typo. - Miguel ]

Cheers,
Miguel