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Message-Id: <DAXV3JY5QPCA.1HKCQZ2V3NVES@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 05:55:45 +0200
From: "Benno Lossin" <lossin@...nel.org>
To: "Matthew Maurer" <mmaurer@...gle.com>, "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>, "Andreas
 Hindborg" <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, "Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
 "Trevor Gross" <tmgross@...ch.edu>, "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@...nel.org>,
 "Isaac J. Manjarres" <isaacmanjarres@...gle.com>
Cc: <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: miscdevice: Export vtable testing

On Sat Jun 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM CEST, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> A common pattern in the kernel is to test whether a file belongs to a
> particular driver by checking its `f_op` struct against an expected
> value. This provides a safe way to perform that test for `MiscDevice`
> implementations without needing to directly expose the vtable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@...gle.com>
> ---
>  rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs b/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
> index 939278bc7b03489a647b697012e09223871c90cd..5f59eda57c38be5f0d54fa9692fe5b2819e31480 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
> @@ -177,6 +177,14 @@ fn show_fdinfo(
>      }
>  }
>  
> +/// Determines whether a given `File` is backed by the `T` `MiscDevice` based on vtable matching.
> +pub fn is_miscdevice_file<T: MiscDevice>(file: &File) -> bool {
> +    let vtable = core::ptr::from_ref(&MiscdeviceVTable::<T>::VTABLE);

I don't think this always returns the same pointer. So this function
might return false in a case where `T` actually backs `file`...

---
Cheers,
Benno

> +    // SAFETY: `f_op` is not mutated after file creation
> +    let file_vtable = unsafe { (*file.as_ptr()).f_op };
> +    vtable == file_vtable
> +}
> +
>  /// A vtable for the file operations of a Rust miscdevice.
>  struct MiscdeviceVTable<T: MiscDevice>(PhantomData<T>);
>  
>
> ---
> base-commit: 86731a2a651e58953fc949573895f2fa6d456841
> change-id: 20250627-linux-miscident-7b67db234a5c
>
> Best regards,