linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 05/13] rust: hrtimer: add `UnsafeHrTimerPointer`

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Message-ID: <a3369f1e4e64c71724c972fc79622bcd3287d5d5.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:24:07 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, Miguel Ojeda
 <ojeda@...nel.org>,  Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
 Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner	
 <tglx@...utronix.de>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.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>, Alice
 Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>,  Guangbo Cui
 <2407018371@...com>, Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@...il.com>, Daniel Almeida	
 <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>, Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>, 
	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 05/13] rust: hrtimer: add `UnsafeHrTimerPointer`

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>

On Mon, 2025-02-24 at 13:03 +0100, Andreas Hindborg wrote:
> Add a trait to allow unsafely queuing stack allocated timers.
> 
> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
> ---
>  rust/kernel/time/hrtimer.rs | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/time/hrtimer.rs b/rust/kernel/time/hrtimer.rs
> index a431c8b728ae..2cb40b011673 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/time/hrtimer.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/time/hrtimer.rs
> @@ -181,6 +181,37 @@ pub trait HrTimerPointer: Sync + Sized {
>      fn start(self, expires: Ktime) -> Self::TimerHandle;
>  }
>  
> +/// Unsafe version of [`HrTimerPointer`] for situations where leaking the
> +/// [`HrTimerHandle`] returned by `start` would be unsound. This is the case for
> +/// stack allocated timers.
> +///
> +/// Typical implementers are pinned references such as [`Pin<&T>`].
> +///
> +/// # Safety
> +///
> +/// Implementers of this trait must ensure that instances of types implementing
> +/// [`UnsafeHrTimerPointer`] outlives any associated [`HrTimerPointer::TimerHandle`]
> +/// instances.
> +pub unsafe trait UnsafeHrTimerPointer: Sync + Sized {
> +    /// A handle representing a running timer.
> +    ///
> +    /// # Safety
> +    ///
> +    /// If the timer is running, or if the timer callback is executing when the
> +    /// handle is dropped, the drop method of [`Self::TimerHandle`] must not return
> +    /// until the timer is stopped and the callback has completed.
> +    type TimerHandle: HrTimerHandle;
> +
> +    /// Start the timer after `expires` time units. If the timer was already
> +    /// running, it is restarted at the new expiry time.
> +    ///
> +    /// # Safety
> +    ///
> +    /// Caller promises keep the timer structure alive until the timer is dead.
> +    /// Caller can ensure this by not leaking the returned [`Self::TimerHandle`].
> +    unsafe fn start(self, expires: Ktime) -> Self::TimerHandle;
> +}
> +
>  /// Implemented by [`HrTimerPointer`] implementers to give the C timer callback a
>  /// function to call.
>  // This is split from `HrTimerPointer` to make it easier to specify trait bounds.
> 

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

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