[PATCH v13 3/5] rust: replace `CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
Benno Lossin
lossin at kernel.org
Fri Jul 4 13:00:24 UTC 2025
On Tue Jul 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM CEST, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> `kernel::ffi::CStr` was introduced in commit d126d2380131 ("rust: str:
> add `CStr` type") in November 2022 as an upstreaming of earlier work
> that was done in May 2021[0]. That earlier work, having predated the
> inclusion of `CStr` in `core`, largely duplicated the implementation of
> `std::ffi::CStr`.
>
> `std::ffi::CStr` was moved to `core::ffi::CStr` in Rust 1.64 in
> September 2022. Hence replace `kernel::str::CStr` with `core::ffi::CStr`
> to reduce our custom code footprint, and retain needed custom
> functionality through an extension trait.
>
> C-String literals were added in Rust 1.77, while our MSRV is 1.78. Thus
> opportunistically replace instances of `kernel::c_str!` with C-String
> literals where other code changes were already necessary or where
> existing code triggered clippy lints; the rest will be done in a later
> commit.
>
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/commit/faa3cbcca03d0dec8f8e43f1d8d5c0860d98a23f [0]
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird at gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panic_qr.rs | 2 +-
> rust/kernel/auxiliary.rs | 4 +-
> rust/kernel/configfs.rs | 4 +-
> rust/kernel/cpufreq.rs | 2 +-
> rust/kernel/device.rs | 4 +-
> rust/kernel/drm/device.rs | 4 +-
> rust/kernel/error.rs | 4 +-
> rust/kernel/firmware.rs | 11 +-
> rust/kernel/kunit.rs | 6 +-
> rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs | 2 +-
> rust/kernel/net/phy.rs | 2 +-
> rust/kernel/of.rs | 2 +-
> rust/kernel/prelude.rs | 5 +-
> rust/kernel/seq_file.rs | 4 +-
> rust/kernel/str.rs | 394 +++++++++++-----------------------------
> rust/kernel/sync/condvar.rs | 2 +-
> rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs | 2 +-
> rust/kernel/sync/lock/global.rs | 2 +-
> samples/rust/rust_configfs.rs | 2 +-
> 19 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 318 deletions(-)
Is it also possible to split this? First rename the existing functions
on our CStr to match upstream & then you don't need to do the rename &
removal of our CStr in the same patch?
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Cheers,
Benno
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