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authorAtharv Dubey <atharvd440@gmail.com>2025-11-29 17:45:13 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-12-29 12:10:10 +0100
commit953deba747911225bcb936b3fa1cd02014910b17 (patch)
tree34573c6decb8703f9a2ced9f35a5a3c92ea4898a /rust/kernel
parente849ada70c6b1ee22e9f4f5c0e38231dcee53f04 (diff)
rust: miscdevice: use `pin_init::zeroed()` for C type initialization
Replace manual zero-initialization using `MaybeUninit::zeroed().assume_init()` with `pin_init::zeroed()`. The `pin_init` helper provides a safer and clearer API for zero-initializing C structs without requiring an `unsafe` block. Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1189 Signed-off-by: Atharv Dubey <atharvd440@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251129121513.20738-1-atharvd440@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'rust/kernel')
-rw-r--r--rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs b/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
index d698cddcb4a5..ba64c8a858f0 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ use crate::{
seq_file::SeqFile,
types::{ForeignOwnable, Opaque},
};
-use core::{marker::PhantomData, mem::MaybeUninit, pin::Pin};
+use core::{marker::PhantomData, pin::Pin};
/// Options for creating a misc device.
#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ pub struct MiscDeviceOptions {
impl MiscDeviceOptions {
/// Create a raw `struct miscdev` ready for registration.
pub const fn into_raw<T: MiscDevice>(self) -> bindings::miscdevice {
- // SAFETY: All zeros is valid for this C type.
- let mut result: bindings::miscdevice = unsafe { MaybeUninit::zeroed().assume_init() };
+ let mut result: bindings::miscdevice = pin_init::zeroed();
result.minor = bindings::MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR as ffi::c_int;
result.name = crate::str::as_char_ptr_in_const_context(self.name);
result.fops = MiscdeviceVTable::<T>::build();
@@ -420,8 +419,7 @@ impl<T: MiscDevice> MiscdeviceVTable<T> {
} else {
None
},
- // SAFETY: All zeros is a valid value for `bindings::file_operations`.
- ..unsafe { MaybeUninit::zeroed().assume_init() }
+ ..pin_init::zeroed()
};
const fn build() -> &'static bindings::file_operations {