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Binary Large Objects for Rust DebugFS

From:  Danilo Krummrich <dakr-AT-kernel.org>
To:  gregkh-AT-linuxfoundation.org, rafael-AT-kernel.org, ojeda-AT-kernel.org, alex.gaynor-AT-gmail.com, boqun.feng-AT-gmail.com, gary-AT-garyguo.net, bjorn3_gh-AT-protonmail.com, lossin-AT-kernel.org, a.hindborg-AT-kernel.org, aliceryhl-AT-google.com, tmgross-AT-umich.edu, mmaurer-AT-google.com
Subject:  [PATCH v2 0/8] Binary Large Objects for Rust DebugFS
Date:  Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:26:12 +0200
Message-ID:  <20251020222722.240473-1-dakr@kernel.org>
Cc:  rust-for-linux-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, Danilo Krummrich <dakr-AT-kernel.org>
Archive-link:  Article

This series adds support for exposing binary large objects via Rust debugfs.

The first two patches extend UserSliceReader and UserSliceWriter with partial
read/write helpers.

The series further introduces read_binary_file(), write_binary_file() and
read_write_binary_file() methods for the Dir and ScopedDir types.

It also introduces the BinaryWriter and BinaryReader traits, which are used to
read/write the implementing type's binary representation with the help of the
backing file operations from/to debugfs.

Additional to some more generic blanked implementations for the BinaryWriter and
BinaryReader traits it also provides implementations for common smart pointer
types.

Both samples (file-based and scoped) are updated with corresponding examples.

A branch containing the patches can be found in [1].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dakr/linu...

Changes in v2:
  - Add file::Offset type alias.
  - uaccess:
    - Saturate at buffer length on offset overflow.
    - Use file::Offset instead of usize.
  - debugfs:
    - Use file::Offset instead of usize.
    - Handle potential overflow when updating ppos.
    - Use &T::FILE_OPS directly if possible.
    - Fix safety comment in BinaryReaderMut::read_from_slice_mut().

Danilo Krummrich (8):
  rust: fs: add file::Offset type alias
  rust: uaccess: add UserSliceReader::read_slice_partial()
  rust: uaccess: add UserSliceWriter::write_slice_partial()
  rust: debugfs: support for binary large objects
  rust: debugfs: support blobs from smart pointers
  samples: rust: debugfs: add example for blobs
  rust: debugfs: support binary large objects for ScopedDir
  samples: rust: debugfs_scoped: add example for blobs

 rust/kernel/debugfs.rs              | 110 +++++++++++++++-
 rust/kernel/debugfs/file_ops.rs     | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 rust/kernel/debugfs/traits.rs       | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 rust/kernel/fs/file.rs              |   5 +
 rust/kernel/uaccess.rs              |  49 +++++++
 samples/rust/rust_debugfs.rs        |  13 ++
 samples/rust/rust_debugfs_scoped.rs |  14 +-
 7 files changed, 515 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)


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