rust: alloc: implement Borrow and BorrowMut for KBox

Implement `Borrow<T>` and `BorrowMut<T>` for `KBox<T>`. This allows
`KBox<T>` to be used in generic APIs asking for types implementing those
traits. `T` and `&mut T` also implement those traits allowing users to
use either owned, borrowed and heap-owned values.

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250616-borrow_impls-v4-3-36f9beb3fe6a@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
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Alexandre Courbot
2025-06-16 12:34:07 +09:00
committed by Danilo Krummrich
parent c09a8ac1cd
commit f86c0036c7

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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
use super::allocator::{KVmalloc, Kmalloc, Vmalloc};
use super::{AllocError, Allocator, Flags};
use core::alloc::Layout;
use core::borrow::{Borrow, BorrowMut};
use core::fmt;
use core::marker::PhantomData;
use core::mem::ManuallyDrop;
@@ -499,6 +500,62 @@ where
}
}
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// # use core::borrow::Borrow;
/// # use kernel::alloc::KBox;
/// struct Foo<B: Borrow<u32>>(B);
///
/// // Owned instance.
/// let owned = Foo(1);
///
/// // Owned instance using `KBox`.
/// let owned_kbox = Foo(KBox::new(1, GFP_KERNEL)?);
///
/// let i = 1;
/// // Borrowed from `i`.
/// let borrowed = Foo(&i);
/// # Ok::<(), Error>(())
/// ```
impl<T, A> Borrow<T> for Box<T, A>
where
T: ?Sized,
A: Allocator,
{
fn borrow(&self) -> &T {
self.deref()
}
}
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// # use core::borrow::BorrowMut;
/// # use kernel::alloc::KBox;
/// struct Foo<B: BorrowMut<u32>>(B);
///
/// // Owned instance.
/// let owned = Foo(1);
///
/// // Owned instance using `KBox`.
/// let owned_kbox = Foo(KBox::new(1, GFP_KERNEL)?);
///
/// let mut i = 1;
/// // Borrowed from `i`.
/// let borrowed = Foo(&mut i);
/// # Ok::<(), Error>(())
/// ```
impl<T, A> BorrowMut<T> for Box<T, A>
where
T: ?Sized,
A: Allocator,
{
fn borrow_mut(&mut self) -> &mut T {
self.deref_mut()
}
}
impl<T, A> fmt::Display for Box<T, A>
where
T: ?Sized + fmt::Display,