On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM Benno Lossin <benno.los...@proton.me> wrote:
>
> On Tue Mar 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM CET, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM Benno Lossin <benno.los...@proton.me> wrote:
> >> On Mon Mar 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM CET, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM Benno Lossin <benno.los...@proton.me>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> On Mon Mar 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM CET, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> >> >> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM Benno Lossin <benno.los...@proton.me>
> >> >> > wrote:
> >> >> >> I'll leave it up to you what you want to do with this: add it to this
> >> >> >> series, make a new one, or let someone else handle it. If you don't
> >> >> >> want
> >> >> >> to handle it, let me know, then I'll create a good-first-issue :)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'll add a patch for `cast_lossless` -- the rest should probably go
> >> >> > into an issue.
> >> >>
> >> >> Do you mind filing the issue? Then you can decide yourself what you want
> >> >> to do yourself vs what you want to leave for others. Feel free to copy
> >> >> from my mail summary.
> >> >
> >> > Well, I don't really know what's left to do. We're pretty close at
> >> > this point to having enabled everything but the nukes. Then there's
> >> > the strict provenance thing, which I suppose we can write down.
> >>
> >> Yes, but there are also these from my original mail:
> >> * `shared_ref as *const _` (for example in rust/kernel/uaccess.rs:247,
> >> rust/kernel/str.rs:32 and rust/kernel/fs/file.rs:367), these we can
> >> replace with `let ptr: *const ... = shared_ref;`. Don't know if there
> >> is a clippy lint for this.
> >
> > I don't think we should go fixing things for which we don't have a
> > clippy lint. That way lies madness, particularly as patches begin to
> > be carried by other trees.
>
> There already exists a lint for that: `clippy::ref_as_ptr` (almost
> created an issue asking for one :)
🫡 picked this one up as well.
> Here is another lint that we probably want to enable (after the `&raw
> {const,mut}` series lands): `clippy::borrow_as_ptr`.
This sounds like a good one to file.
