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Message-ID: <CABVGRke2nj83ohcBg_Q4RCKHuVVXP86jiL=moZ8x3fBEuKv0uQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 14:02:58 -0400
From: Matt Gilbride <mattgilbride@...gle.com>
To: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, 
	Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, 
	Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, 
	Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>, 
	Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: avoid `box_uninit_write` feature

On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Like commit 0903b9e2a46c ("rust: alloc: eschew
> `Box<MaybeUninit<T>>::write`"), but for the new `rbtree` and `alloc` code.
>
> That is, `feature(new_uninit)` [1] got partially stabilized [2]
> for Rust 1.82.0 (expected to be released on 2024-10-17), but it
> did not include `Box<MaybeUninit<T>>::write`, which got split into
> `feature(box_uninit_write)` [3].
>
> To avoid relying on a new unstable feature, rewrite the `write` +
> `assume_init` pair manually.
>
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/63291 [1]
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/129401 [2]
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/129397 [3]
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Matt Gilbride <mattgilbride@...gle.com>

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