From 8802e168437840ea0b1d5ca571cd3e95681e9e2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alice Ryhl Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:27:55 +0000 Subject: rust: types: add Opaque::cast_from Since commit b20fbbc08a36 ("rust: check type of `$ptr` in `container_of!`") we have enforced that the field pointer passed to container_of! must match the declared field. This caused mismatches when using a pointer to bindings::x for fields of type Opaque. This situation encourages the user to simply pass field.cast() to the container_of! macro, but this is not great because you might accidentally pass a *mut bindings::y when the field type is Opaque, which would be wrong. To help catch this kind of mistake, add a new Opaque::cast_from that wraps a raw pointer in Opaque without changing the inner type. Also update the docs to reflect this as well as some existing users. Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl Acked-by: Andreas Hindborg Acked-by: Boqun Feng Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250624-opaque-from-raw-v2-1-e4da40bdc59c@google.com Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda --- rust/kernel/lib.rs | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'rust/kernel/lib.rs') diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs index 6b4774b2b1c3..529ce9074996 100644 --- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs +++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs @@ -204,6 +204,13 @@ fn panic(info: &core::panic::PanicInfo<'_>) -> ! { /// Produces a pointer to an object from a pointer to one of its fields. /// +/// If you encounter a type mismatch due to the [`Opaque`] type, then use [`Opaque::raw_get`] or +/// [`Opaque::cast_from`] to resolve the mismatch. +/// +/// [`Opaque`]: crate::types::Opaque +/// [`Opaque::raw_get`]: crate::types::Opaque::raw_get +/// [`Opaque::cast_from`]: crate::types::Opaque::cast_from +/// /// # Safety /// /// The pointer passed to this macro, and the pointer returned by this macro, must both be in -- cgit