releases/6.12.19/rust-error-make-conversion-functions-public.patch

From stable+bounces-121473-greg=kroah.com@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar  7 23:51:29 2025
From: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Date: Fri,  7 Mar 2025 23:49:25 +0100
Subject: rust: error: make conversion functions public
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>, Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>, NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org>, patches@lists.linux.dev, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20250307225008.779961-19-ojeda@kernel.org>

From: Filipe Xavier <felipe_life@live.com>

commit 5ed147473458f8c20f908a03227d8f5bb3cb8f7d upstream.

Change visibility to public of functions in error.rs:
from_err_ptr, from_errno, from_result and to_ptr.
Additionally, remove dead_code annotations.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1105
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Xavier <felipe_life@live.com>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/DM4PR14MB7276E6948E67B3B23D8EA847E9652@DM4PR14MB7276.namprd14.prod.outlook.com
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 rust/kernel/error.rs |   13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/rust/kernel/error.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/error.rs
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ impl Error {
     ///
     /// It is a bug to pass an out-of-range `errno`. `EINVAL` would
     /// be returned in such a case.
-    pub(crate) fn from_errno(errno: core::ffi::c_int) -> Error {
+    pub fn from_errno(errno: core::ffi::c_int) -> Error {
         if errno < -(bindings::MAX_ERRNO as i32) || errno >= 0 {
             // TODO: Make it a `WARN_ONCE` once available.
             crate::pr_warn!(
@@ -133,8 +133,7 @@ impl Error {
     }
 
     /// Returns the error encoded as a pointer.
-    #[expect(dead_code)]
-    pub(crate) fn to_ptr<T>(self) -> *mut T {
+    pub fn to_ptr<T>(self) -> *mut T {
         #[cfg_attr(target_pointer_width = "32", allow(clippy::useless_conversion))]
         // SAFETY: `self.0` is a valid error due to its invariant.
         unsafe {
@@ -270,9 +269,7 @@ pub fn to_result(err: core::ffi::c_int)
 ///     from_err_ptr(unsafe { bindings::devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev.to_ptr(), index) })
 /// }
 /// ```
-// TODO: Remove `dead_code` marker once an in-kernel client is available.
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-pub(crate) fn from_err_ptr<T>(ptr: *mut T) -> Result<*mut T> {
+pub fn from_err_ptr<T>(ptr: *mut T) -> Result<*mut T> {
     // CAST: Casting a pointer to `*const core::ffi::c_void` is always valid.
     let const_ptr: *const core::ffi::c_void = ptr.cast();
     // SAFETY: The FFI function does not deref the pointer.
@@ -318,9 +315,7 @@ pub(crate) fn from_err_ptr<T>(ptr: *mut
 ///     })
 /// }
 /// ```
-// TODO: Remove `dead_code` marker once an in-kernel client is available.
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-pub(crate) fn from_result<T, F>(f: F) -> T
+pub fn from_result<T, F>(f: F) -> T
 where
     T: From<i16>,
     F: FnOnce() -> Result<T>,