linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] rust: sync: change `<Arc<T> as ForeignOwnable>::PointedTo` to `T`

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Message-ID: <CANiq72=4U0Jpo=gkHVA9vQBCzSxde8Pq8-VZ-VEt4ba_HLAKhw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:34:43 +0100
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, 
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, 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>, Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>, 
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, 
	Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, Fiona Behrens <me@...enk.dev>, 
	Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@...teo.net>, Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>, 
	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] rust: sync: change `<Arc<T> as ForeignOwnable>::PointedTo`
 to `T`

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Isn't the unsafe bit `*this`, which is what this comment should
> justify? In Rust 1.82+ `addr_of_mut!` isn't unsafe I believe. Also `x`
> is likely meant to be `this`.

`addr_of_mut!` could also be called safely in many cases even before
1.82, i.e. it depends on the expression (and that is still true in
1.82+). The change in that version was about referring to static muts
and extern statics.

Cheers,
Miguel