linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] rust: auxiliary: add auxiliary registration

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Message-ID: <Z_5V-uznqkAvrf9p@cassiopeiae>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:50:02 +0200
From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, rafael@...nel.org, david.m.ertman@...el.com,
	ira.weiny@...el.com, ojeda@...nel.org, alex.gaynor@...il.com,
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	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] rust: auxiliary: add auxiliary registration

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 12:11:16PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 03:18:07PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > +impl Registration {
> > +    /// Create and register a new auxiliary device.
> > +    pub fn new(parent: &device::Device, name: &CStr, id: u32, modname: &CStr) -> Result<Self> {
> > +        let boxed = KBox::new(Opaque::<bindings::auxiliary_device>::zeroed(), GFP_KERNEL)?;
> > +        let adev = boxed.get();
> > +
> > +        // SAFETY: It's safe to set the fields of `struct auxiliary_device` on initialization.
> > +        unsafe {
> > +            (*adev).dev.parent = parent.as_raw();
> > +            (*adev).dev.release = Some(Device::release);
> > +            (*adev).name = name.as_char_ptr();
> > +            (*adev).id = id;
> > +        }
> > +
> > +        // SAFETY: `adev` is guaranteed to be a valid pointer to a `struct auxiliary_device`,
> > +        // which has not been initialized yet.
> > +        unsafe { bindings::auxiliary_device_init(adev) };
> > +
> > +        // Now that `adev` is initialized, leak the `Box`; the corresponding memory will be freed
> > +        // by `Device::release` when the last reference to the `struct auxiliary_device` is dropped.
> > +        let _ = KBox::into_raw(boxed);
> > +
> > +        // SAFETY:
> > +        // - `adev` is guaranteed to be a valid pointer to a `struct auxiliary_device`, which has
> > +        //   been initialialized,
> > +        // - `modname.as_char_ptr()` is a NULL terminated string.
> > +        let ret = unsafe { bindings::__auxiliary_device_add(adev, modname.as_char_ptr()) };
> > +        if ret != 0 {
> > +            // SAFETY: `adev` is guaranteed to be a valid pointer to a `struct auxiliary_device`,
> > +            // which has been initialialized.
> > +            unsafe { bindings::auxiliary_device_uninit(adev) };
> 
> Does this error-path actually free the box?

Yes, auxiliary_device_uninit() calls put_device() on the underlying struct
device, hence the release() callback is called at this point, which frees the
Box.