[PATCH v2 0/2] rust: debugfs: migrate debugfs traits requirements to zerocopy
From: Josef Ippisch via B4 Relay
Date: Tue Jul 28 2026 - 13:57:48 EST
Migrate `BinaryWriter` and `BinaryReaderMut`'s default implementation's
requirements on T from `kernel::transmute` traits to `zerocopy` traits.
This is part of a bigger migration from rust/kernel/transmute.rs to the
zerocopy crate, see also [1] and [2]
[1] https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/975
[2] https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1241
The crate zerocopy was introduced with
c37398010a05 rust: zerocopy: import crate
This introduced among other things the `FromBytes` and `IntoBytes` traits
that, when derived, do better checks on the actual requirements of the
types they are implemented on than the existing
`kernel::transmute::FromBytes` and `kernel::transmute::AsBytes` traits,
respectively.
This is my first kernel patch so please let me know if I do anything wrong
process wise or regarding some other aspect!
I noticed that we could probably get rid of the `BinaryWriter` and
`BinaryReaderMut` implementations for `Vec` altogether if we implemented
`FromBytes`, `Immutable` and `IntoBytes` for `Vec`. These are already
implemented for [T] after all. What do you think?
Suggested-by: Joshua Liebow-Feeser <joshlf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/975
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1241
Signed-off-by: Josef Ippisch <josef.ippisch.dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v2:
- Addresses Sashiko AI review's comment about also migrating
`BinaryReaderMut` to zerocopy to not bifurcate the API requirements of
debugfs/traits.rs.
- Do not `use zerocopy::{FromBytes, IntoBytes}` as they are part of
`use kernel::prelude::*`.
- For some reason sending v2 via SMTP server did not reach the mailing
list. I apologize if some of you receive this twice now. I did not
mark this RESEND because of the email never reaching the mailing list.
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260719-migrate-binarywriter-to-zerocopy-intobytes-v1-0-27ed30512e75@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Josef Ippisch (2):
rust: debugfs: migrate debugfs traits requirements to zerocopy
rust: debugfs: remove unsafe blocks from traits impl for Vec
rust/kernel/debugfs/traits.rs | 41 +++++++++++------------------------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 7059bdf4f04a3e14f4fafb3ac35fdca913e3e21a
change-id: 20260719-migrate-binarywriter-to-zerocopy-intobytes-1e8f4ef93a60
Best regards,
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Josef Ippisch <josef.ippisch.dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>