rust: workaround `rustdoc` target modifiers bug
Starting with Rust 1.88.0 (released 2025-06-26), `rustdoc` complains
about a target modifier mismatch in configurations where `-Zfixed-x18`
is passed:
error: mixing `-Zfixed-x18` will cause an ABI mismatch in crate `rust_out`
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= help: the `-Zfixed-x18` flag modifies the ABI so Rust crates compiled with different values of this flag cannot be used together safely
= note: unset `-Zfixed-x18` in this crate is incompatible with `-Zfixed-x18=` in dependency `core`
= help: set `-Zfixed-x18=` in this crate or unset `-Zfixed-x18` in `core`
= help: if you are sure this will not cause problems, you may use `-Cunsafe-allow-abi-mismatch=fixed-x18` to silence this error
The reason is that `rustdoc` was not passing the target modifiers when
configuring the session options, and thus it would report a mismatch
that did not exist as soon as a target modifier is used in a dependency.
We did not notice it in the kernel until now because `-Zfixed-x18` has
been a target modifier only since 1.88.0 (and it is the only one we use
so far).
The issue has been reported upstream [1] and a fix has been submitted
[2], including a test similar to the kernel case.
[ This is now fixed upstream (thanks Guillaume for the quick review),
so it will be fixed in Rust 1.90.0 (expected 2025-09-18).
- Miguel ]
Meanwhile, conditionally pass `-Cunsafe-allow-abi-mismatch=fixed-x18`
to workaround the issue on our side.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # Needed in 6.12.y and later (Rust is pinned in older LTSs).
Reported-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/
36cdc798-524f-4910-8b77-
d7b9fac08d77@oss.qualcomm.com/
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/144521
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/144523
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250727092317.2930617-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>