linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 8/9] rust: Introduce iosys

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Message-ID: <ac9b6943db57fa5a42c92ad8fd0b3f0e3bb3c441.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:26:19 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, Daniel
 Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Cc: 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
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 Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Viresh Kumar
 <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>, FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>,
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 <dingxiangfei2009@...il.com>, open list	 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 8/9] rust: Introduce iosys_map bindings

On Thu, 2025-10-16 at 17:08 -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> +
> +    /// Writes the value of `field` and ensures that its type is [`AsBytes`].
> +    ///
> +    /// # Safety
> +    ///
> +    /// This must be called from the [`iosys_map_write`] macro which ensures that the `field`
> +    /// pointers validated beforehand.
> +    ///
> +    /// Public but hidden since it should only be used from the [`iosys_map_write`] macro.
> +    #[doc(hidden)]
> +    pub unsafe fn field_write<F: AsBytes>(&mut self, field: *mut F, val: F) {
> +        // SAFETY: `field` is guaranteed valid via our safety contract.
> +        let offset = unsafe { self.offset_from_ptr(field) };
> +
> +        // SAFETY: `offset_from_ptr` always returns a valid offset within the iosys map.
> +        unsafe {
> +            bindings::iosys_map_memcpy_to(
> +                self.as_raw_mut(),
> +                offset,
> +                core::ptr::from_ref(&val).cast(),
> +                mem::size_of::<T>(),

aaaand this is wrong - I am glad I read through this one last time! this
should be F, not T.

I will add another unit test to exercise the read/write macros a bit more to
check for this, since reading/writing back a whole map would have probably
caught this!

> +            )
> +        }
> +    }
> +}
> +

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

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