rust: hrtimer: add `hrtimer::ScopedHrTimerPointer`

Add the trait `ScopedHrTimerPointer` to allow safe use of stack allocated
timers. Safety is achieved by pinning the stack in place while timers are
running.

Implement the trait for all types that implement `UnsafeHrTimerPointer`.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250309-hrtimer-v3-v6-12-rc2-v12-6-73586e2bd5f1@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rust/kernel/time/hrtimer.rs b/rust/kernel/time/hrtimer.rs
index e1b29cd40397..5c35982f9dcb 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/time/hrtimer.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/time/hrtimer.rs
@@ -219,6 +219,39 @@ pub unsafe trait UnsafeHrTimerPointer: Sync + Sized {
     unsafe fn start(self, expires: Ktime) -> Self::TimerHandle;
 }
 
+/// A trait for stack allocated timers.
+///
+/// # Safety
+///
+/// Implementers must ensure that `start_scoped` does not return until the
+/// timer is dead and the timer handler is not running.
+pub unsafe trait ScopedHrTimerPointer {
+    /// Start the timer to run after `expires` time units and immediately
+    /// after call `f`. When `f` returns, the timer is cancelled.
+    fn start_scoped<T, F>(self, expires: Ktime, f: F) -> T
+    where
+        F: FnOnce() -> T;
+}
+
+// SAFETY: By the safety requirement of [`UnsafeHrTimerPointer`], dropping the
+// handle returned by [`UnsafeHrTimerPointer::start`] ensures that the timer is
+// killed.
+unsafe impl<T> ScopedHrTimerPointer for T
+where
+    T: UnsafeHrTimerPointer,
+{
+    fn start_scoped<U, F>(self, expires: Ktime, f: F) -> U
+    where
+        F: FnOnce() -> U,
+    {
+        // SAFETY: We drop the timer handle below before returning.
+        let handle = unsafe { UnsafeHrTimerPointer::start(self, expires) };
+        let t = f();
+        drop(handle);
+        t
+    }
+}
+
 /// Implemented by [`HrTimerPointer`] implementers to give the C timer callback a
 /// function to call.
 // This is split from `HrTimerPointer` to make it easier to specify trait bounds.