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<title>linux-toradex.git/rust/kernel/task.rs, branch v6.14-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>rust: fix up formatting after merge</title>
<updated>2024-11-27T01:54:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-27T01:54:58+00:00</published>
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When I merged the rust 'use' imports, I didn't realize that there's
an offical preferred idiomatic format - so while it all worked fine,
it doesn't match what 'make rustfmt' wants to make it.

Fix it up appropriately.

Suggested-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When I merged the rust 'use' imports, I didn't realize that there's
an offical preferred idiomatic format - so while it all worked fine,
it doesn't match what 'make rustfmt' wants to make it.

Fix it up appropriately.

Suggested-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rust-6.13' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux</title>
<updated>2024-11-26T22:00:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-26T22:00:26+00:00</published>
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Pull rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
 "Toolchain and infrastructure:

   - Enable a series of lints, including safety-related ones, e.g. the
     compiler will now warn about missing safety comments, as well as
     unnecessary ones. How safety documentation is organized is a
     frequent source of review comments, thus having the compiler guide
     new developers on where they are expected (and where not) is very
     nice.

   - Start using '#[expect]': an interesting feature in Rust (stabilized
     in 1.81.0) that makes the compiler warn if an expected warning was
     _not_ emitted. This is useful to avoid forgetting cleaning up
     locally ignored diagnostics ('#[allow]'s).

   - Introduce '.clippy.toml' configuration file for Clippy, the Rust
     linter, which will allow us to tweak its behaviour. For instance,
     our first use cases are declaring a disallowed macro and, more
     importantly, enabling the checking of private items.

   - Lints-related fixes and cleanups related to the items above.

   - Migrate from 'receiver_trait' to 'arbitrary_self_types': to get the
     kernel into stable Rust, one of the major pieces of the puzzle is
     the support to write custom types that can be used as 'self', i.e.
     as receivers, since the kernel needs to write types such as 'Arc'
     that common userspace Rust would not. 'arbitrary_self_types' has
     been accepted to become stable, and this is one of the steps
     required to get there.

   - Remove usage of the 'new_uninit' unstable feature.

   - Use custom C FFI types. Includes a new 'ffi' crate to contain our
     custom mapping, instead of using the standard library 'core::ffi'
     one. The actual remapping will be introduced in a later cycle.

   - Map '__kernel_{size_t,ssize_t,ptrdiff_t}' to 'usize'/'isize'
     instead of 32/64-bit integers.

   - Fix 'size_t' in bindgen generated prototypes of C builtins.

   - Warn on bindgen &lt; 0.69.5 and libclang &gt;= 19.1 due to a double issue
     in the projects, which we managed to trigger with the upcoming
     tracepoint support. It includes a build test since some
     distributions backported the fix (e.g. Debian -- thanks!). All
     major distributions we list should be now OK except Ubuntu non-LTS.

  'macros' crate:

   - Adapt the build system to be able run the doctests there too; and
     clean up and enable the corresponding doctests.

  'kernel' crate:

   - Add 'alloc' module with generic kernel allocator support and remove
     the dependency on the Rust standard library 'alloc' and the
     extension traits we used to provide fallible methods with flags.

     Add the 'Allocator' trait and its implementations '{K,V,KV}malloc'.
     Add the 'Box' type (a heap allocation for a single value of type
     'T' that is also generic over an allocator and considers the
     kernel's GFP flags) and its shorthand aliases '{K,V,KV}Box'. Add
     'ArrayLayout' type. Add 'Vec' (a contiguous growable array type)
     and its shorthand aliases '{K,V,KV}Vec', including iterator
     support.

     For instance, now we may write code such as:

         let mut v = KVec::new();
         v.push(1, GFP_KERNEL)?;
         assert_eq!(&amp;v, &amp;[1]);

     Treewide, move as well old users to these new types.

   - 'sync' module: add global lock support, including the
     'GlobalLockBackend' trait; the 'Global{Lock,Guard,LockedBy}' types
     and the 'global_lock!' macro. Add the 'Lock::try_lock' method.

   - 'error' module: optimize 'Error' type to use 'NonZeroI32' and make
     conversion functions public.

   - 'page' module: add 'page_align' function.

   - Add 'transmute' module with the existing 'FromBytes' and 'AsBytes'
     traits.

   - 'block::mq::request' module: improve rendered documentation.

   - 'types' module: extend 'Opaque' type documentation and add simple
     examples for the 'Either' types.

  drm/panic:

   - Clean up a series of Clippy warnings.

  Documentation:

   - Add coding guidelines for lints and the '#[expect]' feature.

   - Add Ubuntu to the list of distributions in the Quick Start guide.

  MAINTAINERS:

   - Add Danilo Krummrich as maintainer of the new 'alloc' module.

  And a few other small cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'rust-6.13' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (82 commits)
  rust: alloc: Fix `ArrayLayout` allocations
  docs: rust: remove spurious item in `expect` list
  rust: allow `clippy::needless_lifetimes`
  rust: warn on bindgen &lt; 0.69.5 and libclang &gt;= 19.1
  rust: use custom FFI integer types
  rust: map `__kernel_size_t` and friends also to usize/isize
  rust: fix size_t in bindgen prototypes of C builtins
  rust: sync: add global lock support
  rust: macros: enable the rest of the tests
  rust: macros: enable paste! use from macro_rules!
  rust: enable macros::module! tests
  rust: kbuild: expand rusttest target for macros
  rust: types: extend `Opaque` documentation
  rust: block: fix formatting of `kernel::block::mq::request` module
  rust: macros: fix documentation of the paste! macro
  rust: kernel: fix THIS_MODULE header path in ThisModule doc comment
  rust: page: add Rust version of PAGE_ALIGN
  rust: helpers: remove unnecessary header includes
  rust: exports: improve grammar in commentary
  drm/panic: allow verbose version check
  ...
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<pre>
Pull rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
 "Toolchain and infrastructure:

   - Enable a series of lints, including safety-related ones, e.g. the
     compiler will now warn about missing safety comments, as well as
     unnecessary ones. How safety documentation is organized is a
     frequent source of review comments, thus having the compiler guide
     new developers on where they are expected (and where not) is very
     nice.

   - Start using '#[expect]': an interesting feature in Rust (stabilized
     in 1.81.0) that makes the compiler warn if an expected warning was
     _not_ emitted. This is useful to avoid forgetting cleaning up
     locally ignored diagnostics ('#[allow]'s).

   - Introduce '.clippy.toml' configuration file for Clippy, the Rust
     linter, which will allow us to tweak its behaviour. For instance,
     our first use cases are declaring a disallowed macro and, more
     importantly, enabling the checking of private items.

   - Lints-related fixes and cleanups related to the items above.

   - Migrate from 'receiver_trait' to 'arbitrary_self_types': to get the
     kernel into stable Rust, one of the major pieces of the puzzle is
     the support to write custom types that can be used as 'self', i.e.
     as receivers, since the kernel needs to write types such as 'Arc'
     that common userspace Rust would not. 'arbitrary_self_types' has
     been accepted to become stable, and this is one of the steps
     required to get there.

   - Remove usage of the 'new_uninit' unstable feature.

   - Use custom C FFI types. Includes a new 'ffi' crate to contain our
     custom mapping, instead of using the standard library 'core::ffi'
     one. The actual remapping will be introduced in a later cycle.

   - Map '__kernel_{size_t,ssize_t,ptrdiff_t}' to 'usize'/'isize'
     instead of 32/64-bit integers.

   - Fix 'size_t' in bindgen generated prototypes of C builtins.

   - Warn on bindgen &lt; 0.69.5 and libclang &gt;= 19.1 due to a double issue
     in the projects, which we managed to trigger with the upcoming
     tracepoint support. It includes a build test since some
     distributions backported the fix (e.g. Debian -- thanks!). All
     major distributions we list should be now OK except Ubuntu non-LTS.

  'macros' crate:

   - Adapt the build system to be able run the doctests there too; and
     clean up and enable the corresponding doctests.

  'kernel' crate:

   - Add 'alloc' module with generic kernel allocator support and remove
     the dependency on the Rust standard library 'alloc' and the
     extension traits we used to provide fallible methods with flags.

     Add the 'Allocator' trait and its implementations '{K,V,KV}malloc'.
     Add the 'Box' type (a heap allocation for a single value of type
     'T' that is also generic over an allocator and considers the
     kernel's GFP flags) and its shorthand aliases '{K,V,KV}Box'. Add
     'ArrayLayout' type. Add 'Vec' (a contiguous growable array type)
     and its shorthand aliases '{K,V,KV}Vec', including iterator
     support.

     For instance, now we may write code such as:

         let mut v = KVec::new();
         v.push(1, GFP_KERNEL)?;
         assert_eq!(&amp;v, &amp;[1]);

     Treewide, move as well old users to these new types.

   - 'sync' module: add global lock support, including the
     'GlobalLockBackend' trait; the 'Global{Lock,Guard,LockedBy}' types
     and the 'global_lock!' macro. Add the 'Lock::try_lock' method.

   - 'error' module: optimize 'Error' type to use 'NonZeroI32' and make
     conversion functions public.

   - 'page' module: add 'page_align' function.

   - Add 'transmute' module with the existing 'FromBytes' and 'AsBytes'
     traits.

   - 'block::mq::request' module: improve rendered documentation.

   - 'types' module: extend 'Opaque' type documentation and add simple
     examples for the 'Either' types.

  drm/panic:

   - Clean up a series of Clippy warnings.

  Documentation:

   - Add coding guidelines for lints and the '#[expect]' feature.

   - Add Ubuntu to the list of distributions in the Quick Start guide.

  MAINTAINERS:

   - Add Danilo Krummrich as maintainer of the new 'alloc' module.

  And a few other small cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'rust-6.13' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (82 commits)
  rust: alloc: Fix `ArrayLayout` allocations
  docs: rust: remove spurious item in `expect` list
  rust: allow `clippy::needless_lifetimes`
  rust: warn on bindgen &lt; 0.69.5 and libclang &gt;= 19.1
  rust: use custom FFI integer types
  rust: map `__kernel_size_t` and friends also to usize/isize
  rust: fix size_t in bindgen prototypes of C builtins
  rust: sync: add global lock support
  rust: macros: enable the rest of the tests
  rust: macros: enable paste! use from macro_rules!
  rust: enable macros::module! tests
  rust: kbuild: expand rusttest target for macros
  rust: types: extend `Opaque` documentation
  rust: block: fix formatting of `kernel::block::mq::request` module
  rust: macros: fix documentation of the paste! macro
  rust: kernel: fix THIS_MODULE header path in ThisModule doc comment
  rust: page: add Rust version of PAGE_ALIGN
  rust: helpers: remove unnecessary header includes
  rust: exports: improve grammar in commentary
  drm/panic: allow verbose version check
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.13.rust.pid_namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-11-26T21:18:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-26T21:18:00+00:00</published>
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Pull pid_namespace rust bindings from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains my Rust bindings for pid namespaces needed for various
  rust drivers. Here's a description of the basic C semantics and how
  they are mapped to Rust.

  The pid namespace of a task doesn't ever change once the task is
  alive. A unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) or setns(fd_pidns/pidfd, CLONE_NEWPID)
  will not have an effect on the calling task's pid namespace. It will
  only effect the pid namespace of children created by the calling task.
  This invariant guarantees that after having acquired a reference to a
  task's pid namespace it will remain unchanged.

  When a task has exited and been reaped release_task() will be called.
  This will set the pid namespace of the task to NULL. So retrieving the
  pid namespace of a task that is dead will return NULL. Note, that
  neither holding the RCU lock nor holding a reference count to the task
  will prevent release_task() from being called.

  In order to retrieve the pid namespace of a task the
  task_active_pid_ns() function can be used. There are two cases to
  consider:

   (1) retrieving the pid namespace of the current task
   (2) retrieving the pid namespace of a non-current task

  From system call context retrieving the pid namespace for case (1) is
  always safe and requires neither RCU locking nor a reference count to
  be held. Retrieving the pid namespace after release_task() for current
  will return NULL but no codepath like that is exposed to Rust.

  Retrieving the pid namespace from system call context for (2) requires
  RCU protection. Accessing a pid namespace outside of RCU protection
  requires a reference count that must've been acquired while holding
  the RCU lock. Note that accessing a non-current task means NULL can be
  returned as the non-current task could have already passed through
  release_task().

  To retrieve (1) the current_pid_ns!() macro should be used. It ensures
  that the returned pid namespace cannot outlive the calling scope. The
  associated current_pid_ns() function should not be called directly as
  it could be abused to created an unbounded lifetime for the pid
  namespace. The current_pid_ns!() macro allows Rust to handle the
  common case of accessing current's pid namespace without RCU
  protection and without having to acquire a reference count.

  For (2) the task_get_pid_ns() method must be used. This will always
  acquire a reference on the pid namespace and will return an Option to
  force the caller to explicitly handle the case where pid namespace is
  None. Something that tends to be forgotten when doing the equivalent
  operation in C.

  Missing RCU primitives make it difficult to perform operations that
  are otherwise safe without holding a reference count as long as RCU
  protection is guaranteed. But it is not important currently. But we do
  want it in the future.

  Note that for (2) the required RCU protection around calling
  task_active_pid_ns() synchronizes against putting the last reference
  of the associated struct pid of task-&gt;thread_pid. The struct pid
  stored in that field is used to retrieve the pid namespace of the
  caller. When release_task() is called task-&gt;thread_pid will be NULLed
  and put_pid() on said struct pid will be delayed in free_pid() via
  call_rcu() allowing everyone with an RCU protected access to the
  struct pid acquired from task-&gt;thread_pid to finish"

* tag 'vfs-6.13.rust.pid_namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  rust: add PidNamespace
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<pre>
Pull pid_namespace rust bindings from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains my Rust bindings for pid namespaces needed for various
  rust drivers. Here's a description of the basic C semantics and how
  they are mapped to Rust.

  The pid namespace of a task doesn't ever change once the task is
  alive. A unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) or setns(fd_pidns/pidfd, CLONE_NEWPID)
  will not have an effect on the calling task's pid namespace. It will
  only effect the pid namespace of children created by the calling task.
  This invariant guarantees that after having acquired a reference to a
  task's pid namespace it will remain unchanged.

  When a task has exited and been reaped release_task() will be called.
  This will set the pid namespace of the task to NULL. So retrieving the
  pid namespace of a task that is dead will return NULL. Note, that
  neither holding the RCU lock nor holding a reference count to the task
  will prevent release_task() from being called.

  In order to retrieve the pid namespace of a task the
  task_active_pid_ns() function can be used. There are two cases to
  consider:

   (1) retrieving the pid namespace of the current task
   (2) retrieving the pid namespace of a non-current task

  From system call context retrieving the pid namespace for case (1) is
  always safe and requires neither RCU locking nor a reference count to
  be held. Retrieving the pid namespace after release_task() for current
  will return NULL but no codepath like that is exposed to Rust.

  Retrieving the pid namespace from system call context for (2) requires
  RCU protection. Accessing a pid namespace outside of RCU protection
  requires a reference count that must've been acquired while holding
  the RCU lock. Note that accessing a non-current task means NULL can be
  returned as the non-current task could have already passed through
  release_task().

  To retrieve (1) the current_pid_ns!() macro should be used. It ensures
  that the returned pid namespace cannot outlive the calling scope. The
  associated current_pid_ns() function should not be called directly as
  it could be abused to created an unbounded lifetime for the pid
  namespace. The current_pid_ns!() macro allows Rust to handle the
  common case of accessing current's pid namespace without RCU
  protection and without having to acquire a reference count.

  For (2) the task_get_pid_ns() method must be used. This will always
  acquire a reference on the pid namespace and will return an Option to
  force the caller to explicitly handle the case where pid namespace is
  None. Something that tends to be forgotten when doing the equivalent
  operation in C.

  Missing RCU primitives make it difficult to perform operations that
  are otherwise safe without holding a reference count as long as RCU
  protection is guaranteed. But it is not important currently. But we do
  want it in the future.

  Note that for (2) the required RCU protection around calling
  task_active_pid_ns() synchronizes against putting the last reference
  of the associated struct pid of task-&gt;thread_pid. The struct pid
  stored in that field is used to retrieve the pid namespace of the
  caller. When release_task() is called task-&gt;thread_pid will be NULLed
  and put_pid() on said struct pid will be delayed in free_pid() via
  call_rcu() allowing everyone with an RCU protected access to the
  struct pid acquired from task-&gt;thread_pid to finish"

* tag 'vfs-6.13.rust.pid_namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  rust: add PidNamespace
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: use custom FFI integer types</title>
<updated>2024-11-10T22:58:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gary Guo</name>
<email>gary@garyguo.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-13T21:29:23+00:00</published>
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Currently FFI integer types are defined in libcore. This commit creates
the `ffi` crate and asks bindgen to use that crate for FFI integer types
instead of `core::ffi`.

This commit is preparatory and no type changes are made in this commit
yet.

Signed-off-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240913213041.395655-4-gary@garyguo.net
[ Added `rustdoc`, `rusttest` and KUnit tests support. Rebased on top of
  `rust-next` (e.g. migrated more `core::ffi` cases). Reworded crate
  docs slightly and formatted. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Currently FFI integer types are defined in libcore. This commit creates
the `ffi` crate and asks bindgen to use that crate for FFI integer types
instead of `core::ffi`.

This commit is preparatory and no type changes are made in this commit
yet.

Signed-off-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240913213041.395655-4-gary@garyguo.net
[ Added `rustdoc`, `rusttest` and KUnit tests support. Rebased on top of
  `rust-next` (e.g. migrated more `core::ffi` cases). Reworded crate
  docs slightly and formatted. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: task: adjust safety comments in Task methods</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T14:07:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alice Ryhl</name>
<email>aliceryhl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-15T14:02:12+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The `Task` struct has several safety comments that aren't so great. For
example, the reason that it's okay to read the `pid` is that the field
is immutable, so there is no data race, which is not what the safety
comment says.

Thus, improve the safety comments. Also add an `as_ptr` helper. This
makes it easier to read the various accessors on Task, as `self.0` may
be confusing syntax for new Rust users.

Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241015-task-safety-cmnts-v1-1-46ee92c82768@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The `Task` struct has several safety comments that aren't so great. For
example, the reason that it's okay to read the `pid` is that the field
is immutable, so there is no data race, which is not what the safety
comment says.

Thus, improve the safety comments. Also add an `as_ptr` helper. This
makes it easier to read the various accessors on Task, as `self.0` may
be confusing syntax for new Rust users.

Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241015-task-safety-cmnts-v1-1-46ee92c82768@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: add PidNamespace</title>
<updated>2024-10-08T13:44:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-02T11:38:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=e0020ba6cbcbfbaaa50c3d4b610c7caa36459624'/>
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<content type='text'>
The lifetime of `PidNamespace` is bound to `Task` and `struct pid`.

The `PidNamespace` of a `Task` doesn't ever change once the `Task` is
alive. A `unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)` or `setns(fd_pidns/pidfd, CLONE_NEWPID)`
will not have an effect on the calling `Task`'s pid namespace. It will
only effect the pid namespace of children created by the calling `Task`.
This invariant guarantees that after having acquired a reference to a
`Task`'s pid namespace it will remain unchanged.

When a task has exited and been reaped `release_task()` will be called.
This will set the `PidNamespace` of the task to `NULL`. So retrieving
the `PidNamespace` of a task that is dead will return `NULL`. Note, that
neither holding the RCU lock nor holding a referencing count to the
`Task` will prevent `release_task()` being called.

In order to retrieve the `PidNamespace` of a `Task` the
`task_active_pid_ns()` function can be used. There are two cases to
consider:

(1) retrieving the `PidNamespace` of the `current` task (2) retrieving
the `PidNamespace` of a non-`current` task

From system call context retrieving the `PidNamespace` for case (1) is
always safe and requires neither RCU locking nor a reference count to be
held. Retrieving the `PidNamespace` after `release_task()` for current
will return `NULL` but no codepath like that is exposed to Rust.

Retrieving the `PidNamespace` from system call context for (2) requires
RCU protection. Accessing `PidNamespace` outside of RCU protection
requires a reference count that must've been acquired while holding the
RCU lock. Note that accessing a non-`current` task means `NULL` can be
returned as the non-`current` task could have already passed through
`release_task()`.

To retrieve (1) the `current_pid_ns!()` macro should be used which
ensure that the returned `PidNamespace` cannot outlive the calling
scope. The associated `current_pid_ns()` function should not be called
directly as it could be abused to created an unbounded lifetime for
`PidNamespace`. The `current_pid_ns!()` macro allows Rust to handle the
common case of accessing `current`'s `PidNamespace` without RCU
protection and without having to acquire a reference count.

For (2) the `task_get_pid_ns()` method must be used. This will always
acquire a reference on `PidNamespace` and will return an `Option` to
force the caller to explicitly handle the case where `PidNamespace` is
`None`, something that tends to be forgotten when doing the equivalent
operation in `C`. Missing RCU primitives make it difficult to perform
operations that are otherwise safe without holding a reference count as
long as RCU protection is guaranteed. But it is not important currently.
But we do want it in the future.

Note for (2) the required RCU protection around calling
`task_active_pid_ns()` synchronizes against putting the last reference
of the associated `struct pid` of `task-&gt;thread_pid`. The `struct pid`
stored in that field is used to retrieve the `PidNamespace` of the
caller. When `release_task()` is called `task-&gt;thread_pid` will be
`NULL`ed and `put_pid()` on said `struct pid` will be delayed in
`free_pid()` via `call_rcu()` allowing everyone with an RCU protected
access to the `struct pid` acquired from `task-&gt;thread_pid` to finish.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002-brauner-rust-pid_namespace-v5-1-a90e70d44fde@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The lifetime of `PidNamespace` is bound to `Task` and `struct pid`.

The `PidNamespace` of a `Task` doesn't ever change once the `Task` is
alive. A `unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)` or `setns(fd_pidns/pidfd, CLONE_NEWPID)`
will not have an effect on the calling `Task`'s pid namespace. It will
only effect the pid namespace of children created by the calling `Task`.
This invariant guarantees that after having acquired a reference to a
`Task`'s pid namespace it will remain unchanged.

When a task has exited and been reaped `release_task()` will be called.
This will set the `PidNamespace` of the task to `NULL`. So retrieving
the `PidNamespace` of a task that is dead will return `NULL`. Note, that
neither holding the RCU lock nor holding a referencing count to the
`Task` will prevent `release_task()` being called.

In order to retrieve the `PidNamespace` of a `Task` the
`task_active_pid_ns()` function can be used. There are two cases to
consider:

(1) retrieving the `PidNamespace` of the `current` task (2) retrieving
the `PidNamespace` of a non-`current` task

From system call context retrieving the `PidNamespace` for case (1) is
always safe and requires neither RCU locking nor a reference count to be
held. Retrieving the `PidNamespace` after `release_task()` for current
will return `NULL` but no codepath like that is exposed to Rust.

Retrieving the `PidNamespace` from system call context for (2) requires
RCU protection. Accessing `PidNamespace` outside of RCU protection
requires a reference count that must've been acquired while holding the
RCU lock. Note that accessing a non-`current` task means `NULL` can be
returned as the non-`current` task could have already passed through
`release_task()`.

To retrieve (1) the `current_pid_ns!()` macro should be used which
ensure that the returned `PidNamespace` cannot outlive the calling
scope. The associated `current_pid_ns()` function should not be called
directly as it could be abused to created an unbounded lifetime for
`PidNamespace`. The `current_pid_ns!()` macro allows Rust to handle the
common case of accessing `current`'s `PidNamespace` without RCU
protection and without having to acquire a reference count.

For (2) the `task_get_pid_ns()` method must be used. This will always
acquire a reference on `PidNamespace` and will return an `Option` to
force the caller to explicitly handle the case where `PidNamespace` is
`None`, something that tends to be forgotten when doing the equivalent
operation in `C`. Missing RCU primitives make it difficult to perform
operations that are otherwise safe without holding a reference count as
long as RCU protection is guaranteed. But it is not important currently.
But we do want it in the future.

Note for (2) the required RCU protection around calling
`task_active_pid_ns()` synchronizes against putting the last reference
of the associated `struct pid` of `task-&gt;thread_pid`. The `struct pid`
stored in that field is used to retrieve the `PidNamespace` of the
caller. When `release_task()` is called `task-&gt;thread_pid` will be
`NULL`ed and `put_pid()` on said `struct pid` will be delayed in
`free_pid()` via `call_rcu()` allowing everyone with an RCU protected
access to the `struct pid` acquired from `task-&gt;thread_pid` to finish.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241002-brauner-rust-pid_namespace-v5-1-a90e70d44fde@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: file: add `Kuid` wrapper</title>
<updated>2024-09-30T11:02:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alice Ryhl</name>
<email>aliceryhl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-15T14:31:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=8ad1a41f7e23287f07a3516c700bc32501d4f104'/>
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Adds a wrapper around `kuid_t` called `Kuid`. This allows us to define
various operations on kuids such as equality and current_euid. It also
lets us provide conversions from kuid into userspace values.

Rust Binder needs these operations because it needs to compare kuids for
equality, and it needs to tell userspace about the pid and uid of
incoming transactions.

To read kuids from a `struct task_struct`, you must currently use
various #defines that perform the appropriate field access under an RCU
read lock. Currently, we do not have a Rust wrapper for rcu_read_lock,
which means that for this patch, there are two ways forward:

 1. Inline the methods into Rust code, and use __rcu_read_lock directly
    rather than the rcu_read_lock wrapper. This gives up lockdep for
    these usages of RCU.

 2. Wrap the various #defines in helpers and call the helpers from Rust.

This patch uses the second option. One possible disadvantage of the
second option is the possible introduction of speculation gadgets, but
as discussed in [1], the risk appears to be acceptable.

Of course, once a wrapper for rcu_read_lock is available, it is
preferable to use that over either of the two above approaches.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202312080947.674CD2DC7@keescook/ [1]
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo &lt;yakoyoku@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240915-alice-file-v10-7-88484f7a3dcf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Adds a wrapper around `kuid_t` called `Kuid`. This allows us to define
various operations on kuids such as equality and current_euid. It also
lets us provide conversions from kuid into userspace values.

Rust Binder needs these operations because it needs to compare kuids for
equality, and it needs to tell userspace about the pid and uid of
incoming transactions.

To read kuids from a `struct task_struct`, you must currently use
various #defines that perform the appropriate field access under an RCU
read lock. Currently, we do not have a Rust wrapper for rcu_read_lock,
which means that for this patch, there are two ways forward:

 1. Inline the methods into Rust code, and use __rcu_read_lock directly
    rather than the rcu_read_lock wrapper. This gives up lockdep for
    these usages of RCU.

 2. Wrap the various #defines in helpers and call the helpers from Rust.

This patch uses the second option. One possible disadvantage of the
second option is the possible introduction of speculation gadgets, but
as discussed in [1], the risk appears to be acceptable.

Of course, once a wrapper for rcu_read_lock is available, it is
preferable to use that over either of the two above approaches.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202312080947.674CD2DC7@keescook/ [1]
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo &lt;yakoyoku@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240915-alice-file-v10-7-88484f7a3dcf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: task: add `Task::current_raw`</title>
<updated>2024-09-30T11:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alice Ryhl</name>
<email>aliceryhl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-15T14:31:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=913f8cf4f376d21082c6c33d49c8c3aa9fb7e83a'/>
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Introduces a safe function for getting a raw pointer to the current
task.

When writing bindings that need to access the current task, it is often
more convenient to call a method that directly returns a raw pointer
than to use the existing `Task::current` method. However, the only way
to do that is `bindings::get_current()` which is unsafe since it calls
into C. By introducing `Task::current_raw()`, it becomes possible to
obtain a pointer to the current task without using unsafe.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAH5fLgjT48X-zYtidv31mox3C4_Ogoo_2cBOCmX0Ang3tAgGHA@mail.gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo &lt;yakoyoku@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240915-alice-file-v10-2-88484f7a3dcf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduces a safe function for getting a raw pointer to the current
task.

When writing bindings that need to access the current task, it is often
more convenient to call a method that directly returns a raw pointer
than to use the existing `Task::current` method. However, the only way
to do that is `bindings::get_current()` which is unsafe since it calls
into C. By introducing `Task::current_raw()`, it becomes possible to
obtain a pointer to the current task without using unsafe.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAH5fLgjT48X-zYtidv31mox3C4_Ogoo_2cBOCmX0Ang3tAgGHA@mail.gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo &lt;yakoyoku@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240915-alice-file-v10-2-88484f7a3dcf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: types: add `NotThreadSafe`</title>
<updated>2024-09-30T11:02:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alice Ryhl</name>
<email>aliceryhl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-15T14:31:27+00:00</published>
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This introduces a new marker type for types that shouldn't be thread
safe. By adding a field of this type to a struct, it becomes non-Send
and non-Sync, which means that it cannot be accessed in any way from
threads other than the one it was created on.

This is useful for APIs that require globals such as `current` to remain
constant while the value exists.

We update two existing users in the Kernel to use this helper:

 * `Task::current()` - moving the return type of this value to a
   different thread would not be safe as you can no longer be guaranteed
   that the `current` pointer remains valid.
 * Lock guards. Mutexes and spinlocks should be unlocked on the same
   thread as where they were locked, so we enforce this using the Send
   trait.

There are also additional users in later patches of this patchset. See
[1] and [2] for the discussion that led to the introduction of this
patch.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nFDPJFnzE9Q5cqY7FwSMByRH2OAn_BpI4H53NQfWIlN6I2qfmAqnkp2wRqn0XjMO65OyZY4h6P4K2nAGKJpAOSzksYXaiAK_FoH_8QbgBI4=@proton.me/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nFDPJFnzE9Q5cqY7FwSMByRH2OAn_BpI4H53NQfWIlN6I2qfmAqnkp2wRqn0XjMO65OyZY4h6P4K2nAGKJpAOSzksYXaiAK_FoH_8QbgBI4=@proton.me/ [2]
Suggested-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo &lt;yakoyoku@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Björn Roy Baron &lt;bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240915-alice-file-v10-1-88484f7a3dcf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This introduces a new marker type for types that shouldn't be thread
safe. By adding a field of this type to a struct, it becomes non-Send
and non-Sync, which means that it cannot be accessed in any way from
threads other than the one it was created on.

This is useful for APIs that require globals such as `current` to remain
constant while the value exists.

We update two existing users in the Kernel to use this helper:

 * `Task::current()` - moving the return type of this value to a
   different thread would not be safe as you can no longer be guaranteed
   that the `current` pointer remains valid.
 * Lock guards. Mutexes and spinlocks should be unlocked on the same
   thread as where they were locked, so we enforce this using the Send
   trait.

There are also additional users in later patches of this patchset. See
[1] and [2] for the discussion that led to the introduction of this
patch.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nFDPJFnzE9Q5cqY7FwSMByRH2OAn_BpI4H53NQfWIlN6I2qfmAqnkp2wRqn0XjMO65OyZY4h6P4K2nAGKJpAOSzksYXaiAK_FoH_8QbgBI4=@proton.me/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nFDPJFnzE9Q5cqY7FwSMByRH2OAn_BpI4H53NQfWIlN6I2qfmAqnkp2wRqn0XjMO65OyZY4h6P4K2nAGKJpAOSzksYXaiAK_FoH_8QbgBI4=@proton.me/ [2]
Suggested-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross &lt;tmgross@umich.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo &lt;yakoyoku@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Björn Roy Baron &lt;bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240915-alice-file-v10-1-88484f7a3dcf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rust: kernel: remove redundant imports</title>
<updated>2024-05-05T17:22:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>ojeda@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-01T21:23:02+00:00</published>
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Rust's `unused_imports` lint covers both unused and redundant imports.
In the upcoming 1.78.0, the lint detects more cases of redundant imports
[1], e.g.:

    error: the item `bindings` is imported redundantly
      --&gt; rust/kernel/print.rs:38:9
       |
    38 |     use crate::bindings;
       |         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the item `bindings` is already defined by prelude

Most cases are `use crate::bindings`, plus a few other items like `Box`.
Thus clean them up.

Note that, in the `bindings` case, the message "defined by prelude"
above means the extern prelude, i.e. the `--extern` flags we pass.

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117772 [1]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240401212303.537355-3-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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Rust's `unused_imports` lint covers both unused and redundant imports.
In the upcoming 1.78.0, the lint detects more cases of redundant imports
[1], e.g.:

    error: the item `bindings` is imported redundantly
      --&gt; rust/kernel/print.rs:38:9
       |
    38 |     use crate::bindings;
       |         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the item `bindings` is already defined by prelude

Most cases are `use crate::bindings`, plus a few other items like `Box`.
Thus clean them up.

Note that, in the `bindings` case, the message "defined by prelude"
above means the extern prelude, i.e. the `--extern` flags we pass.

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117772 [1]
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240401212303.537355-3-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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