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<title>rust: driver: drop device private data post unbind</title>
<updated>2026-01-16T00:17:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Danilo Krummrich</name>
<email>dakr@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-01-07T10:35:05+00:00</published>
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Currently, the driver's device private data is allocated and initialized
from driver core code called from bus abstractions after the driver's
probe() callback returned the corresponding initializer.

Similarly, the driver's device private data is dropped within the
remove() callback of bus abstractions after calling the remove()
callback of the corresponding driver.

However, commit 6f61a2637abe ("rust: device: introduce
Device::drvdata()") introduced an accessor for the driver's device
private data for a Device&lt;Bound&gt;, i.e. a device that is currently bound
to a driver.

Obviously, this is in conflict with dropping the driver's device private
data in remove(), since a device can not be considered to be fully
unbound after remove() has finished:

We also have to consider registrations guarded by devres - such as IRQ
or class device registrations - which are torn down after remove() in
devres_release_all().

Thus, it can happen that, for instance, a class device or IRQ callback
still calls Device::drvdata(), which then runs concurrently to remove()
(which sets dev-&gt;driver_data to NULL and drops the driver's device
private data), before devres_release_all() started to tear down the
corresponding registration. This is because devres guarded registrations
can, as expected, access the corresponding Device&lt;Bound&gt; that defines
their scope.

In C it simply is the driver's responsibility to ensure that its device
private data is freed after e.g. an IRQ registration is unregistered.

Typically, C drivers achieve this by allocating their device private data
with e.g. devm_kzalloc() before doing anything else, i.e. before e.g.
registering an IRQ with devm_request_threaded_irq(), relying on the
reverse order cleanup of devres.

Technically, we could do something similar in Rust. However, the
resulting code would be pretty messy:

In Rust we have to differentiate between allocated but uninitialized
memory and initialized memory in the type system. Thus, we would need to
somehow keep track of whether the driver's device private data object
has been initialized (i.e. probe() was successful and returned a valid
initializer for this memory) and conditionally call the destructor of
the corresponding object when it is freed.

This is because we'd need to allocate and register the memory of the
driver's device private data *before* it is initialized by the
initializer returned by the driver's probe() callback, because the
driver could already register devres guarded registrations within
probe() outside of the driver's device private data initializer.

Luckily there is a much simpler solution: Instead of dropping the
driver's device private data at the end of remove(), we just drop it
after the device has been fully unbound, i.e. after all devres callbacks
have been processed.

For this, we introduce a new post_unbind() callback private to the
driver-core, i.e. the callback is neither exposed to drivers, nor to bus
abstractions.

This way, the driver-core code can simply continue to conditionally
allocate the memory for the driver's device private data when the
driver's initializer is returned from probe() - no change needed - and
drop it when the driver-core code receives the post_unbind() callback.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/DEZMS6Y4A7XE.XE7EUBT5SJFJ@kernel.org/
Fixes: 6f61a2637abe ("rust: device: introduce Device::drvdata()")
Acked-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Igor Korotin &lt;igor.korotin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107103511.570525-7-dakr@kernel.org
[ Remove #ifdef CONFIG_RUST, rename post_unbind() to post_unbind_rust().
 - Danilo]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, the driver's device private data is allocated and initialized
from driver core code called from bus abstractions after the driver's
probe() callback returned the corresponding initializer.

Similarly, the driver's device private data is dropped within the
remove() callback of bus abstractions after calling the remove()
callback of the corresponding driver.

However, commit 6f61a2637abe ("rust: device: introduce
Device::drvdata()") introduced an accessor for the driver's device
private data for a Device&lt;Bound&gt;, i.e. a device that is currently bound
to a driver.

Obviously, this is in conflict with dropping the driver's device private
data in remove(), since a device can not be considered to be fully
unbound after remove() has finished:

We also have to consider registrations guarded by devres - such as IRQ
or class device registrations - which are torn down after remove() in
devres_release_all().

Thus, it can happen that, for instance, a class device or IRQ callback
still calls Device::drvdata(), which then runs concurrently to remove()
(which sets dev-&gt;driver_data to NULL and drops the driver's device
private data), before devres_release_all() started to tear down the
corresponding registration. This is because devres guarded registrations
can, as expected, access the corresponding Device&lt;Bound&gt; that defines
their scope.

In C it simply is the driver's responsibility to ensure that its device
private data is freed after e.g. an IRQ registration is unregistered.

Typically, C drivers achieve this by allocating their device private data
with e.g. devm_kzalloc() before doing anything else, i.e. before e.g.
registering an IRQ with devm_request_threaded_irq(), relying on the
reverse order cleanup of devres.

Technically, we could do something similar in Rust. However, the
resulting code would be pretty messy:

In Rust we have to differentiate between allocated but uninitialized
memory and initialized memory in the type system. Thus, we would need to
somehow keep track of whether the driver's device private data object
has been initialized (i.e. probe() was successful and returned a valid
initializer for this memory) and conditionally call the destructor of
the corresponding object when it is freed.

This is because we'd need to allocate and register the memory of the
driver's device private data *before* it is initialized by the
initializer returned by the driver's probe() callback, because the
driver could already register devres guarded registrations within
probe() outside of the driver's device private data initializer.

Luckily there is a much simpler solution: Instead of dropping the
driver's device private data at the end of remove(), we just drop it
after the device has been fully unbound, i.e. after all devres callbacks
have been processed.

For this, we introduce a new post_unbind() callback private to the
driver-core, i.e. the callback is neither exposed to drivers, nor to bus
abstractions.

This way, the driver-core code can simply continue to conditionally
allocate the memory for the driver's device private data when the
driver's initializer is returned from probe() - no change needed - and
drop it when the driver-core code receives the post_unbind() callback.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/DEZMS6Y4A7XE.XE7EUBT5SJFJ@kernel.org/
Fixes: 6f61a2637abe ("rust: device: introduce Device::drvdata()")
Acked-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Igor Korotin &lt;igor.korotin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107103511.570525-7-dakr@kernel.org
[ Remove #ifdef CONFIG_RUST, rename post_unbind() to post_unbind_rust().
 - Danilo]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rust: device: Remove explicit import of CStrExt</title>
<updated>2026-01-06T20:18:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-06T00:03:20+00:00</published>
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Remove the explicit import of CStrExt. When CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled
this import causes a build error:

error: unused import: `crate::str::CStrExt`
  --&gt; rust/kernel/device.rs:17:5
   |
17 | use crate::str::CStrExt as _;
   |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   |
   = note: `-D unused-imports` implied by `-D warnings`
   = help: to override `-D warnings` add `#[allow(unused_imports)]`

error: aborting due to 1 previous error

CStrExt is covered by prelude::* so the explicit import is redundant.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 3b83f5d5e78a ("rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106000320.2593800-1-fujita.tomonori@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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Remove the explicit import of CStrExt. When CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled
this import causes a build error:

error: unused import: `crate::str::CStrExt`
  --&gt; rust/kernel/device.rs:17:5
   |
17 | use crate::str::CStrExt as _;
   |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   |
   = note: `-D unused-imports` implied by `-D warnings`
   = help: to override `-D warnings` add `#[allow(unused_imports)]`

error: aborting due to 1 previous error

CStrExt is covered by prelude::* so the explicit import is redundant.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 3b83f5d5e78a ("rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106000320.2593800-1-fujita.tomonori@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rust: device: fix broken intra-doc links</title>
<updated>2026-01-02T18:05:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>FUJITA Tomonori</name>
<email>fujita.tomonori@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-31T04:57:28+00:00</published>
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The `pci` module is conditional on CONFIG_PCI. When it's disabled, the
intra-doc link to `pci::Device` causes rustdoc warnings:

warning: unresolved link to `kernel::pci::Device`
   --&gt; rust/kernel/device.rs:163:22
    |
163 | /// [`pci::Device`]: kernel::pci::Device
    |                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ no item named `pci` in module `kernel`
    |
    = note: `#[warn(rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links)]` on by default

Fix this by making the documentation conditional on CONFIG_PCI.

Fixes: d6e26c1ae4a6 ("device: rust: expand documentation for Device")
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dirk Behme &lt;dirk.behme@de.bosch.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251231045728.1912024-2-fujita.tomonori@gmail.com
[ Keep the "such as" part indicating a list of examples; fix typos in
  commit message. - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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The `pci` module is conditional on CONFIG_PCI. When it's disabled, the
intra-doc link to `pci::Device` causes rustdoc warnings:

warning: unresolved link to `kernel::pci::Device`
   --&gt; rust/kernel/device.rs:163:22
    |
163 | /// [`pci::Device`]: kernel::pci::Device
    |                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ no item named `pci` in module `kernel`
    |
    = note: `#[warn(rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links)]` on by default

Fix this by making the documentation conditional on CONFIG_PCI.

Fixes: d6e26c1ae4a6 ("device: rust: expand documentation for Device")
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dirk Behme &lt;dirk.behme@de.bosch.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251231045728.1912024-2-fujita.tomonori@gmail.com
[ Keep the "such as" part indicating a list of examples; fix typos in
  commit message. - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core</title>
<updated>2025-12-06T05:29:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-06T05:29:02+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich:
 "Arch Topology:
   - Move parse_acpi_topology() from arm64 to common code for reuse in
     RISC-V

  CPU:
   - Expose housekeeping CPUs through /sys/devices/system/cpu/housekeeping
   - Print a newline (or 0x0A) instead of '(null)' reading
     /sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full when nohz_full= is not set

  debugfs
   - Remove (broken) 'no-mount' mode
   - Remove redundant access mode checks in debugfs_get_tree() and
     debugfs_create_*() functions

  Devres:
   - Remove unused devm_free_percpu() helper
   - Move devm_alloc_percpu() from device.h to devres.h

  Firmware Loader:
   - Replace simple_strtol() with kstrtoint()
   - Do not call cancel_store() when no upload is in progress

  kernfs:
   - Increase struct super_block::maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE
   - Fix a missing unwind path in __kernfs_new_node()

  Misc:
   - Increase the name size in struct auxiliary_device_id to 40
     characters
   - Replace system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq and add WQ_PERCPU to
     alloc_workqueue()

  Platform:
   - Replace ERR_PTR() with IOMEM_ERR_PTR() in platform ioremap
     functions

  Rust:
   - Auxiliary:
      - Unregister auxiliary device on parent device unbind
      - Move parent() to impl Device; implement device context aware
        parent() for Device&lt;Bound&gt;
      - Illustrate how to safely obtain a driver's device private data
        when calling from an auxiliary driver into the parant device
        driver

   - DebugFs:
      - Implement support for binary large objects

   - Device:
      - Let probe() return the driver's device private data as pinned
        initializer, i.e. impl PinInit&lt;Self, Error&gt;
      - Implement safe accessor for a driver's device private data for
        Device&lt;Bound&gt; (returned reference can't out-live driver binding
        and guarantees the correct private data type)
      - Implement AsBusDevice trait, to be used by class device
        abstractions to derive the bus device type of the parent device

   - DMA:
      - Store raw pointer of allocation as NonNull
      - Use start_ptr() and start_ptr_mut() to inherit correct
        mutability of self

   - FS:
      - Add file::Offset type alias

   - I2C:
      - Add abstractions for I2C device / driver infrastructure
      - Implement abstractions for manual I2C device registrations

   - I/O:
      - Use "kernel vertical" style for imports
      - Define ResourceSize as resource_size_t
      - Move ResourceSize to top-level I/O module
      - Add type alias for phys_addr_t
      - Implement Rust version of read_poll_timeout_atomic()

   - PCI:
      - Use "kernel vertical" style for imports
      - Move I/O and IRQ infrastructure to separate files
      - Add support for PCI interrupt vectors
      - Implement TryInto&lt;IrqRequest&lt;'a&gt;&gt; for IrqVector&lt;'a&gt; to convert
        an IrqVector bound to specific pci::Device into an IrqRequest
        bound to the same pci::Device's parent Device
      - Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ
        methods

   - PinInit:
      - Add {pin_}init_scope() to execute code before creating an
        initializer

   - Platform:
      - Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ
        methods

   - Timekeeping:
      - Implement abstraction of udelay()

   - Uaccess:
      - Implement read_slice_partial() and read_slice_file() for
        UserSliceReader
      - Implement write_slice_partial() and write_slice_file() for
        UserSliceWriter

  sysfs:
   - Prepare the constification of struct attribute"

* tag 'driver-core-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (75 commits)
  rust: pci: fix build failure when CONFIG_PCI_MSI is disabled
  debugfs: Fix default access mode config check
  debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode
  debugfs: Remove redundant access mode checks
  driver core: Check drivers_autoprobe for all added devices
  driver core: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
  driver core: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
  tick/nohz: Expose housekeeping CPUs in sysfs
  tick/nohz: avoid showing '(null)' if nohz_full= not set
  sysfs/cpu: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO for nohz_full attribute
  kernfs: fix memory leak of kernfs_iattrs in __kernfs_new_node
  fs/kernfs: raise sb-&gt;maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE
  mod_devicetable: Bump auxiliary_device_id name size
  sysfs: simplify attribute definition macros
  samples/kobject: constify 'struct foo_attribute'
  samples/kobject: add is_visible() callback to attribute group
  sysfs: attribute_group: enable const variants of is_visible()
  sysfs: introduce __SYSFS_FUNCTION_ALTERNATIVE()
  sysfs: transparently handle const pointers in ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS()
  sysfs: attribute_group: allow registration of const attribute
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich:
 "Arch Topology:
   - Move parse_acpi_topology() from arm64 to common code for reuse in
     RISC-V

  CPU:
   - Expose housekeeping CPUs through /sys/devices/system/cpu/housekeeping
   - Print a newline (or 0x0A) instead of '(null)' reading
     /sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full when nohz_full= is not set

  debugfs
   - Remove (broken) 'no-mount' mode
   - Remove redundant access mode checks in debugfs_get_tree() and
     debugfs_create_*() functions

  Devres:
   - Remove unused devm_free_percpu() helper
   - Move devm_alloc_percpu() from device.h to devres.h

  Firmware Loader:
   - Replace simple_strtol() with kstrtoint()
   - Do not call cancel_store() when no upload is in progress

  kernfs:
   - Increase struct super_block::maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE
   - Fix a missing unwind path in __kernfs_new_node()

  Misc:
   - Increase the name size in struct auxiliary_device_id to 40
     characters
   - Replace system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq and add WQ_PERCPU to
     alloc_workqueue()

  Platform:
   - Replace ERR_PTR() with IOMEM_ERR_PTR() in platform ioremap
     functions

  Rust:
   - Auxiliary:
      - Unregister auxiliary device on parent device unbind
      - Move parent() to impl Device; implement device context aware
        parent() for Device&lt;Bound&gt;
      - Illustrate how to safely obtain a driver's device private data
        when calling from an auxiliary driver into the parant device
        driver

   - DebugFs:
      - Implement support for binary large objects

   - Device:
      - Let probe() return the driver's device private data as pinned
        initializer, i.e. impl PinInit&lt;Self, Error&gt;
      - Implement safe accessor for a driver's device private data for
        Device&lt;Bound&gt; (returned reference can't out-live driver binding
        and guarantees the correct private data type)
      - Implement AsBusDevice trait, to be used by class device
        abstractions to derive the bus device type of the parent device

   - DMA:
      - Store raw pointer of allocation as NonNull
      - Use start_ptr() and start_ptr_mut() to inherit correct
        mutability of self

   - FS:
      - Add file::Offset type alias

   - I2C:
      - Add abstractions for I2C device / driver infrastructure
      - Implement abstractions for manual I2C device registrations

   - I/O:
      - Use "kernel vertical" style for imports
      - Define ResourceSize as resource_size_t
      - Move ResourceSize to top-level I/O module
      - Add type alias for phys_addr_t
      - Implement Rust version of read_poll_timeout_atomic()

   - PCI:
      - Use "kernel vertical" style for imports
      - Move I/O and IRQ infrastructure to separate files
      - Add support for PCI interrupt vectors
      - Implement TryInto&lt;IrqRequest&lt;'a&gt;&gt; for IrqVector&lt;'a&gt; to convert
        an IrqVector bound to specific pci::Device into an IrqRequest
        bound to the same pci::Device's parent Device
      - Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ
        methods

   - PinInit:
      - Add {pin_}init_scope() to execute code before creating an
        initializer

   - Platform:
      - Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ
        methods

   - Timekeeping:
      - Implement abstraction of udelay()

   - Uaccess:
      - Implement read_slice_partial() and read_slice_file() for
        UserSliceReader
      - Implement write_slice_partial() and write_slice_file() for
        UserSliceWriter

  sysfs:
   - Prepare the constification of struct attribute"

* tag 'driver-core-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (75 commits)
  rust: pci: fix build failure when CONFIG_PCI_MSI is disabled
  debugfs: Fix default access mode config check
  debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode
  debugfs: Remove redundant access mode checks
  driver core: Check drivers_autoprobe for all added devices
  driver core: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
  driver core: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
  tick/nohz: Expose housekeeping CPUs in sysfs
  tick/nohz: avoid showing '(null)' if nohz_full= not set
  sysfs/cpu: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO for nohz_full attribute
  kernfs: fix memory leak of kernfs_iattrs in __kernfs_new_node
  fs/kernfs: raise sb-&gt;maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE
  mod_devicetable: Bump auxiliary_device_id name size
  sysfs: simplify attribute definition macros
  samples/kobject: constify 'struct foo_attribute'
  samples/kobject: add is_visible() callback to attribute group
  sysfs: attribute_group: enable const variants of is_visible()
  sysfs: introduce __SYSFS_FUNCTION_ALTERNATIVE()
  sysfs: transparently handle const pointers in ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS()
  sysfs: attribute_group: allow registration of const attribute
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rust-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux</title>
<updated>2025-12-03T22:16:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-03T22:16:49+00:00</published>
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Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
 "Toolchain and infrastructure:

   - Add support for 'syn'.

     Syn is a parsing library for parsing a stream of Rust tokens into a
     syntax tree of Rust source code.

     Currently this library is geared toward use in Rust procedural
     macros, but contains some APIs that may be useful more generally.

     'syn' allows us to greatly simplify writing complex macros such as
     'pin-init' (Benno has already prepared the 'syn'-based version). We
     will use it in the 'macros' crate too.

     'syn' is the most downloaded Rust crate (according to crates.io),
     and it is also used by the Rust compiler itself. While the amount
     of code is substantial, there should not be many updates needed for
     these crates, and even if there are, they should not be too big,
     e.g. +7k -3k lines across the 3 crates in the last year.

     'syn' requires two smaller dependencies: 'quote' and 'proc-macro2'.
     I only modified their code to remove a third dependency
     ('unicode-ident') and to add the SPDX identifiers. The code can be
     easily verified to exactly match upstream with the provided
     scripts.

     They are all licensed under "Apache-2.0 OR MIT", like the other
     vendored 'alloc' crate we had for a while.

     Please see the merge commit with the cover letter for more context.

   - Allow 'unreachable_pub' and 'clippy::disallowed_names' for
     doctests.

     Examples (i.e. doctests) may want to do things like show public
     items and use names such as 'foo'.

     Nevertheless, we still try to keep examples as close to real code
     as possible (this is part of why running Clippy on doctests is
     important for us, e.g. for safety comments, which userspace Rust
     does not support yet but we are stricter).

  'kernel' crate:

   - Replace our custom 'CStr' type with 'core::ffi::CStr'.

     Using the standard library type reduces our custom code footprint,
     and we retain needed custom functionality through an extension
     trait and a new 'fmt!' macro which replaces the previous 'core'
     import.

     This started in 6.17 and continued in 6.18, and we finally land the
     replacement now. This required quite some stamina from Tamir, who
     split the changes in steps to prepare for the flag day change here.

   - Replace 'kernel::c_str!' with C string literals.

     C string literals were added in Rust 1.77, which produce '&amp;CStr's
     (the 'core' one), so now we can write:

         c"hi"

     instead of:

         c_str!("hi")

   - Add 'num' module for numerical features.

     It includes the 'Integer' trait, implemented for all primitive
     integer types.

     It also includes the 'Bounded' integer wrapping type: an integer
     value that requires only the 'N' least significant bits of the
     wrapped type to be encoded:

         // An unsigned 8-bit integer, of which only the 4 LSBs are used.
         let v = Bounded::&lt;u8, 4&gt;::new::&lt;15&gt;();
         assert_eq!(v.get(), 15);

     'Bounded' is useful to e.g. enforce guarantees when working with
     bitfields that have an arbitrary number of bits.

     Values can also be constructed from simple non-constant expressions
     or, for more complex ones, validated at runtime.

     'Bounded' also comes with comparison and arithmetic operations
     (with both their backing type and other 'Bounded's with a
     compatible backing type), casts to change the backing type,
     extending/shrinking and infallible/fallible conversions from/to
     primitives as applicable.

   - 'rbtree' module: add immutable cursor ('Cursor').

     It enables to use just an immutable tree reference where
     appropriate. The existing fully-featured mutable cursor is renamed
     to 'CursorMut'.

  kallsyms:

   - Fix wrong "big" kernel symbol type read from procfs.

  'pin-init' crate:

   - A couple minor fixes (Benno asked me to pick these patches up for
     him this cycle).

  Documentation:

   - Quick Start guide: add Debian 13 (Trixie).

     Debian Stable is now able to build Linux, since Debian 13 (released
     2025-08-09) packages Rust 1.85.0, which is recent enough.

     We are planning to propose that the minimum supported Rust version
     in Linux follows Debian Stable releases, with Debian 13 being the
     first one we upgrade to, i.e. Rust 1.85.

  MAINTAINERS:

   - Add entry for the new 'num' module.

   - Remove Alex as Rust maintainer: he hasn't had the time to
     contribute for a few years now, so it is a no-op change in
     practice.

  And a few other cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'rust-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux: (53 commits)
  rust: macros: support `proc-macro2`, `quote` and `syn`
  rust: syn: enable support in kbuild
  rust: syn: add `README.md`
  rust: syn: remove `unicode-ident` dependency
  rust: syn: add SPDX License Identifiers
  rust: syn: import crate
  rust: quote: enable support in kbuild
  rust: quote: add `README.md`
  rust: quote: add SPDX License Identifiers
  rust: quote: import crate
  rust: proc-macro2: enable support in kbuild
  rust: proc-macro2: add `README.md`
  rust: proc-macro2: remove `unicode_ident` dependency
  rust: proc-macro2: add SPDX License Identifiers
  rust: proc-macro2: import crate
  rust: kbuild: support using libraries in `rustc_procmacro`
  rust: kbuild: support skipping flags in `rustc_test_library`
  rust: kbuild: add proc macro library support
  rust: kbuild: simplify `--cfg` handling
  rust: kbuild: introduce `core-flags` and `core-skip_flags`
  ...
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Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
 "Toolchain and infrastructure:

   - Add support for 'syn'.

     Syn is a parsing library for parsing a stream of Rust tokens into a
     syntax tree of Rust source code.

     Currently this library is geared toward use in Rust procedural
     macros, but contains some APIs that may be useful more generally.

     'syn' allows us to greatly simplify writing complex macros such as
     'pin-init' (Benno has already prepared the 'syn'-based version). We
     will use it in the 'macros' crate too.

     'syn' is the most downloaded Rust crate (according to crates.io),
     and it is also used by the Rust compiler itself. While the amount
     of code is substantial, there should not be many updates needed for
     these crates, and even if there are, they should not be too big,
     e.g. +7k -3k lines across the 3 crates in the last year.

     'syn' requires two smaller dependencies: 'quote' and 'proc-macro2'.
     I only modified their code to remove a third dependency
     ('unicode-ident') and to add the SPDX identifiers. The code can be
     easily verified to exactly match upstream with the provided
     scripts.

     They are all licensed under "Apache-2.0 OR MIT", like the other
     vendored 'alloc' crate we had for a while.

     Please see the merge commit with the cover letter for more context.

   - Allow 'unreachable_pub' and 'clippy::disallowed_names' for
     doctests.

     Examples (i.e. doctests) may want to do things like show public
     items and use names such as 'foo'.

     Nevertheless, we still try to keep examples as close to real code
     as possible (this is part of why running Clippy on doctests is
     important for us, e.g. for safety comments, which userspace Rust
     does not support yet but we are stricter).

  'kernel' crate:

   - Replace our custom 'CStr' type with 'core::ffi::CStr'.

     Using the standard library type reduces our custom code footprint,
     and we retain needed custom functionality through an extension
     trait and a new 'fmt!' macro which replaces the previous 'core'
     import.

     This started in 6.17 and continued in 6.18, and we finally land the
     replacement now. This required quite some stamina from Tamir, who
     split the changes in steps to prepare for the flag day change here.

   - Replace 'kernel::c_str!' with C string literals.

     C string literals were added in Rust 1.77, which produce '&amp;CStr's
     (the 'core' one), so now we can write:

         c"hi"

     instead of:

         c_str!("hi")

   - Add 'num' module for numerical features.

     It includes the 'Integer' trait, implemented for all primitive
     integer types.

     It also includes the 'Bounded' integer wrapping type: an integer
     value that requires only the 'N' least significant bits of the
     wrapped type to be encoded:

         // An unsigned 8-bit integer, of which only the 4 LSBs are used.
         let v = Bounded::&lt;u8, 4&gt;::new::&lt;15&gt;();
         assert_eq!(v.get(), 15);

     'Bounded' is useful to e.g. enforce guarantees when working with
     bitfields that have an arbitrary number of bits.

     Values can also be constructed from simple non-constant expressions
     or, for more complex ones, validated at runtime.

     'Bounded' also comes with comparison and arithmetic operations
     (with both their backing type and other 'Bounded's with a
     compatible backing type), casts to change the backing type,
     extending/shrinking and infallible/fallible conversions from/to
     primitives as applicable.

   - 'rbtree' module: add immutable cursor ('Cursor').

     It enables to use just an immutable tree reference where
     appropriate. The existing fully-featured mutable cursor is renamed
     to 'CursorMut'.

  kallsyms:

   - Fix wrong "big" kernel symbol type read from procfs.

  'pin-init' crate:

   - A couple minor fixes (Benno asked me to pick these patches up for
     him this cycle).

  Documentation:

   - Quick Start guide: add Debian 13 (Trixie).

     Debian Stable is now able to build Linux, since Debian 13 (released
     2025-08-09) packages Rust 1.85.0, which is recent enough.

     We are planning to propose that the minimum supported Rust version
     in Linux follows Debian Stable releases, with Debian 13 being the
     first one we upgrade to, i.e. Rust 1.85.

  MAINTAINERS:

   - Add entry for the new 'num' module.

   - Remove Alex as Rust maintainer: he hasn't had the time to
     contribute for a few years now, so it is a no-op change in
     practice.

  And a few other cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'rust-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux: (53 commits)
  rust: macros: support `proc-macro2`, `quote` and `syn`
  rust: syn: enable support in kbuild
  rust: syn: add `README.md`
  rust: syn: remove `unicode-ident` dependency
  rust: syn: add SPDX License Identifiers
  rust: syn: import crate
  rust: quote: enable support in kbuild
  rust: quote: add `README.md`
  rust: quote: add SPDX License Identifiers
  rust: quote: import crate
  rust: proc-macro2: enable support in kbuild
  rust: proc-macro2: add `README.md`
  rust: proc-macro2: remove `unicode_ident` dependency
  rust: proc-macro2: add SPDX License Identifiers
  rust: proc-macro2: import crate
  rust: kbuild: support using libraries in `rustc_procmacro`
  rust: kbuild: support skipping flags in `rustc_test_library`
  rust: kbuild: add proc macro library support
  rust: kbuild: simplify `--cfg` handling
  rust: kbuild: introduce `core-flags` and `core-skip_flags`
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: Add trait to convert a device reference to a bus device reference</title>
<updated>2025-11-17T22:00:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markus Probst</name>
<email>markus.probst@posteo.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-27T20:06:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=e4addc7cc2dfcc19f1c8c8e47f3834b22cb21559'/>
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Implement the `AsBusDevice` trait for converting a `Device` reference to a
bus device reference for all bus devices.

The `AsBusDevice` trait allows abstractions to provide the bus device in
class device callbacks. It must not be used by drivers and is intended for
bus and class device abstractions only.

Signed-off-by: Markus Probst &lt;markus.probst@posteo.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027200547.1038967-2-markus.probst@posteo.de
[ * Remove unused import.
  * Change visibility of AsBusDevice to public.
  * Fix build for USB.
  * Add impl for I2cClient.
  - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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Implement the `AsBusDevice` trait for converting a `Device` reference to a
bus device reference for all bus devices.

The `AsBusDevice` trait allows abstractions to provide the bus device in
class device callbacks. It must not be used by drivers and is intended for
bus and class device abstractions only.

Signed-off-by: Markus Probst &lt;markus.probst@posteo.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027200547.1038967-2-markus.probst@posteo.de
[ * Remove unused import.
  * Change visibility of AsBusDevice to public.
  * Fix build for USB.
  * Add impl for I2cClient.
  - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: device: introduce Device::drvdata()</title>
<updated>2025-10-29T17:18:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Danilo Krummrich</name>
<email>dakr@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-20T22:34:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6f61a2637abe4f89877da3280775565baedb60e0'/>
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In C dev_get_drvdata() has specific requirements under which it is valid
to access the returned pointer. That is, drivers have to ensure that

  (1) for the duration the returned pointer is accessed the driver is
      bound and remains to be bound to the corresponding device,

  (2) the returned void * is treated according to the driver's private
      data type, i.e. according to what has been passed to
      dev_set_drvdata().

In Rust, (1) can be ensured by simply requiring the Bound device
context, i.e. provide the drvdata() method for Device&lt;Bound&gt; only.

For (2) we would usually make the device type generic over the driver
type, e.g. Device&lt;T: Driver&gt;, where &lt;T as Driver&gt;::Data is the type of
the driver's private data.

However, a device does not have a driver type known at compile time and
may be bound to multiple drivers throughout its lifetime.

Hence, in order to be able to provide a safe accessor for the driver's
device private data, we have to do the type check on runtime.

This is achieved by letting a driver assert the expected type, which is
then compared to a type hash stored in struct device_private when
dev_set_drvdata() is called.

Example:

	// `dev` is a `&amp;Device&lt;Bound&gt;`.
	let data = dev.drvdata::&lt;SampleDriver&gt;()?;

There are two aspects to note:

  (1) Technically, the same check could be achieved by comparing the
      struct device_driver pointer of struct device with the struct
      device_driver pointer of the driver struct (e.g. struct
      pci_driver).

      However, this would - in addition the pointer comparison - require
      to tie back the private driver data type to the struct
      device_driver pointer of the driver struct to prove correctness.

      Besides that, accessing the driver struct (stored in the module
      structure) isn't trivial and would result into horrible code and
      API ergonomics.

  (2) Having a direct accessor to the driver's private data is not
      commonly required (at least in Rust): Bus callback methods already
      provide access to the driver's device private data through a &amp;self
      argument, while other driver entry points such as IRQs,
      workqueues, timers, IOCTLs, etc. have their own private data with
      separate ownership and lifetime.

      In other words, a driver's device private data is only relevant
      for driver model contexts (such a file private is only relevant
      for file contexts).

Having that said, the motivation for accessing the driver's device
private data with Device&lt;Bound&gt;::drvdata() are interactions between
drivers. For instance, when an auxiliary driver calls back into its
parent, the parent has to be capable to derive its private data from the
corresponding device (i.e. the parent of the auxiliary device).

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[ * Remove unnecessary `const _: ()` block,
  * rename type_id_{store,match}() to {set,match}_type_id(),
  * assert size_of::&lt;bindings::driver_type&gt;() &gt;= size_of::&lt;TypeId&gt;(),
  * add missing check in case Device::drvdata() is called from probe().

  - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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In C dev_get_drvdata() has specific requirements under which it is valid
to access the returned pointer. That is, drivers have to ensure that

  (1) for the duration the returned pointer is accessed the driver is
      bound and remains to be bound to the corresponding device,

  (2) the returned void * is treated according to the driver's private
      data type, i.e. according to what has been passed to
      dev_set_drvdata().

In Rust, (1) can be ensured by simply requiring the Bound device
context, i.e. provide the drvdata() method for Device&lt;Bound&gt; only.

For (2) we would usually make the device type generic over the driver
type, e.g. Device&lt;T: Driver&gt;, where &lt;T as Driver&gt;::Data is the type of
the driver's private data.

However, a device does not have a driver type known at compile time and
may be bound to multiple drivers throughout its lifetime.

Hence, in order to be able to provide a safe accessor for the driver's
device private data, we have to do the type check on runtime.

This is achieved by letting a driver assert the expected type, which is
then compared to a type hash stored in struct device_private when
dev_set_drvdata() is called.

Example:

	// `dev` is a `&amp;Device&lt;Bound&gt;`.
	let data = dev.drvdata::&lt;SampleDriver&gt;()?;

There are two aspects to note:

  (1) Technically, the same check could be achieved by comparing the
      struct device_driver pointer of struct device with the struct
      device_driver pointer of the driver struct (e.g. struct
      pci_driver).

      However, this would - in addition the pointer comparison - require
      to tie back the private driver data type to the struct
      device_driver pointer of the driver struct to prove correctness.

      Besides that, accessing the driver struct (stored in the module
      structure) isn't trivial and would result into horrible code and
      API ergonomics.

  (2) Having a direct accessor to the driver's private data is not
      commonly required (at least in Rust): Bus callback methods already
      provide access to the driver's device private data through a &amp;self
      argument, while other driver entry points such as IRQs,
      workqueues, timers, IOCTLs, etc. have their own private data with
      separate ownership and lifetime.

      In other words, a driver's device private data is only relevant
      for driver model contexts (such a file private is only relevant
      for file contexts).

Having that said, the motivation for accessing the driver's device
private data with Device&lt;Bound&gt;::drvdata() are interactions between
drivers. For instance, when an auxiliary driver calls back into its
parent, the parent has to be capable to derive its private data from the
corresponding device (i.e. the parent of the auxiliary device).

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[ * Remove unnecessary `const _: ()` block,
  * rename type_id_{store,match}() to {set,match}_type_id(),
  * assert size_of::&lt;bindings::driver_type&gt;() &gt;= size_of::&lt;TypeId&gt;(),
  * add missing check in case Device::drvdata() is called from probe().

  - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: device: narrow the generic of drvdata_obtain()</title>
<updated>2025-10-29T15:40:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Danilo Krummrich</name>
<email>dakr@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-20T22:34:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6bbaa93912bfdfd5ffdc804275cc6a444c9400af'/>
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<content type='text'>
Let T be the actual private driver data type without the surrounding
box, as it leaves less room for potential bugs.

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Let T be the actual private driver data type without the surrounding
box, as it leaves less room for potential bugs.

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge 6.18-rc3 into driver-core-next</title>
<updated>2025-10-27T07:02:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-27T07:02:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=37022410f4a3cc11614626a58cd08bcf8ea529e9'/>
<id>37022410f4a3cc11614626a58cd08bcf8ea529e9</id>
<content type='text'>
We need the driver core fixes in here as well to build on top of.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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We need the driver core fixes in here as well to build on top of.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`</title>
<updated>2025-10-22T05:47:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tamir Duberstein</name>
<email>tamird@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-18T19:16:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=3b83f5d5e78ac5cddd811a5e431af73959864390'/>
<id>3b83f5d5e78ac5cddd811a5e431af73959864390</id>
<content type='text'>
`kernel::ffi::CStr` was introduced in commit d126d2380131 ("rust: str:
add `CStr` type") in November 2022 as an upstreaming of earlier work
that was done in May 2021[0]. That earlier work, having predated the
inclusion of `CStr` in `core`, largely duplicated the implementation of
`std::ffi::CStr`.

`std::ffi::CStr` was moved to `core::ffi::CStr` in Rust 1.64 in
September 2022. Hence replace `kernel::str::CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
to reduce our custom code footprint, and retain needed custom
functionality through an extension trait.

Add `CStr` to `ffi` and the kernel prelude.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/commit/faa3cbcca03d0dec8f8e43f1d8d5c0860d98a23f [0]
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;lossin@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein &lt;tamird@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251018-cstr-core-v18-16-9378a54385f8@gmail.com
[ Removed assert that would now depend on the Rust version. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
`kernel::ffi::CStr` was introduced in commit d126d2380131 ("rust: str:
add `CStr` type") in November 2022 as an upstreaming of earlier work
that was done in May 2021[0]. That earlier work, having predated the
inclusion of `CStr` in `core`, largely duplicated the implementation of
`std::ffi::CStr`.

`std::ffi::CStr` was moved to `core::ffi::CStr` in Rust 1.64 in
September 2022. Hence replace `kernel::str::CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
to reduce our custom code footprint, and retain needed custom
functionality through an extension trait.

Add `CStr` to `ffi` and the kernel prelude.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/commit/faa3cbcca03d0dec8f8e43f1d8d5c0860d98a23f [0]
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;lossin@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein &lt;tamird@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251018-cstr-core-v18-16-9378a54385f8@gmail.com
[ Removed assert that would now depend on the Rust version. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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