firmware: rust: improve safety comments
authorDanilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com>
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:20:12 +0000 (15:20 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:14:54 +0000 (16:14 +0200)
Improve the wording of safety comments to be more explicit about what
exactly is guaranteed to be valid.

Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619132029.59296-1-dakr@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
rust/kernel/firmware.rs

index b55ea1b4536832b8bd756b5569006dee8d9ce40d..386c8fb44785a38d169ed4a071d0f582111e17ba 100644 (file)
@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ type FwFunc =
 ///
 /// The pointer is valid, and has ownership over the instance of `struct firmware`.
 ///
-/// Once requested, the `Firmware` backing buffer is not modified until it is freed when `Firmware`
-/// is dropped.
+/// The `Firmware`'s backing buffer is not modified.
 ///
 /// # Examples
 ///
@@ -72,22 +71,22 @@ impl Firmware {
 
     /// Returns the size of the requested firmware in bytes.
     pub fn size(&self) -> usize {
-        // SAFETY: Safe by the type invariant.
+        // SAFETY: `self.as_raw()` is valid by the type invariant.
         unsafe { (*self.as_raw()).size }
     }
 
     /// Returns the requested firmware as `&[u8]`.
     pub fn data(&self) -> &[u8] {
-        // SAFETY: Safe by the type invariant. Additionally, `bindings::firmware` guarantees, if
-        // successfully requested, that `bindings::firmware::data` has a size of
-        // `bindings::firmware::size` bytes.
+        // SAFETY: `self.as_raw()` is valid by the type invariant. Additionally,
+        // `bindings::firmware` guarantees, if successfully requested, that
+        // `bindings::firmware::data` has a size of `bindings::firmware::size` bytes.
         unsafe { core::slice::from_raw_parts((*self.as_raw()).data, self.size()) }
     }
 }
 
 impl Drop for Firmware {
     fn drop(&mut self) {
-        // SAFETY: Safe by the type invariant.
+        // SAFETY: `self.as_raw()` is valid by the type invariant.
         unsafe { bindings::release_firmware(self.as_raw()) };
     }
 }