* [PATCH v2] rust: miscdevice: clarify invariant for `MiscDeviceRegistration`
@ 2025-06-26 10:45 Shankari Anand
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From: Shankari Anand @ 2025-06-26 10:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rust-for-linux, linux-kernel
Cc: Miguel Ojeda, Alex Gaynor, Boqun Feng, Gary Guo,
Björn Roy Baron, Benno Lossin, Andreas Hindborg, Alice Ryhl,
Trevor Gross, Danilo Krummrich, Shankari Anand
Reword and expand the invariant documentation for `MiscDeviceRegistration`
to clarify what it means for the inner device to be "registered".
It expands to explain:
- `inner` points to a `miscdevice` registered via `misc_register`.
- This registration stays valid for the entire lifetime of the object.
- Deregistration is guaranteed on `Drop`, via `misc_deregister`.
Reported-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Closes: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1168
Fixes: f893691e7426 ("rust: miscdevice: add base miscdevice abstraction")
Signed-off-by: Shankari Anand <shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>
---
v1 -> v2 : Added bullet points, changed the last point in the description and added intra-doc links.
---
rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs b/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
index 288f40e79906..3fb118496958 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
@@ -45,7 +45,13 @@ pub const fn into_raw<T: MiscDevice>(self) -> bindings::miscdevice {
///
/// # Invariants
///
-/// `inner` is a registered misc device.
+/// - `inner` contains a `struct miscdevice` that is registered using
+/// `misc_register()`.
+/// - This registration remains valid for the entire lifetime of the
+/// [`MiscDeviceRegistration`] instance.
+/// - Deregistration occurs exactly once in [`Drop`] via `misc_deregister()`.
+/// - `inner` wraps a valid, pinned `miscdevice` created using
+/// [`MiscDeviceOptions::into_raw`].
#[repr(transparent)]
#[pin_data(PinnedDrop)]
pub struct MiscDeviceRegistration<T> {
base-commit: 0303584766b7bdb6564c7e8f13e0b59b6ef44984
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2.34.1
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