linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

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Message-ID: <2ac39b766dbf5f9606107d3ead216ba384cfdd2b.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:10:29 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Miguel Ojeda
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rust/kernel: Add faux device bindings

On Fri, 2025-02-07 at 13:16 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 12:42:41PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > This introduces a crate for working with faux devices in rust, along with
> > 
> > s/crate/module
> > 
> > (also in the module description)
> > 
> > > +//! C header: [`include/linux/device/faux.h`]
> > > +use crate::{bindings, device, error::code::*, prelude::*};
> > 
> > Newline between.
> > 
> > > +        // SAFETY: self.0 is a valid registered faux_device via our type invariants.
> > 
> > Markdown.
> > 
> > > +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> > > +unsafe impl Send for Registration {}
> > > +
> > > +// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe
> > > +unsafe impl Sync for Registration {}
> > 
> > Perhaps some extra notes here would be useful, e.g. is it documented
> > to be so? Especially since faux is being added now, it may make sense
> > to e.g. take the chance to work on mentioning this on the C side.
> 
> How can or should I mention this on the C side?

This is a very good question :), especially because it turns out I actually
think this function is not thread-safe! Though I don't think that's actually
much of a problem for Send/Sync here:

So - my original assumption was that since faux_device_destroy() just wraps
around device_del() and put_device() we'd get thread safety. put_device() is
thread-safe, but on closer inspection I don't see that device_del() is. It
_can_ be called from any thread, but only so long as there is a guarantee it's
called exactly once. I think that's fine both for C and rust, but it
definitely warrants a more descriptive SAFETY comment from me.

So for the C side of things I might actually add documentation to device_del()
for this that would look something like this:

   device_del() can be called from any thread, but provides no protection
   against multiple calls. It is up to the caller to ensure this function may
   only be called once for a given device.

And then I suppose we could refer back to device_del() in faux_device_destroy()'s
documentation if we want. For the rust side of thing the safety comment could
just be like this:

   // SAFETY: Our bindings ensure only one `Registration` can exist at a time,
   meaning faux_device_destroy() can only be called once for a given
   registration - fulfilling the driver core's requirements for thread-safety.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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