Re: [PATCH 2/2] rust: enable `no_mangle_with_rust_abi` Clippy lint

[Martin Rodriguez Reboredo]

On 7/29/23 19:03, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Introduced in Rust 1.69.0 [1], this lint prevents forgetting to set
> the C ABI when using `#[no_mangle]` (or thinking it is implied).
>
> For instance, it would have prevented the issue [2] fixed by commit
> c682e4c37d2b ("rust: kernel: Mark rust_fmt_argument as extern "C"").
>
>      error: `#[no_mangle]` set on a function with the default (`Rust`) ABI
>        --> rust/kernel/print.rs:21:1
>         |
>      21 | / unsafe fn rust_fmt_argument(
>      22 | |     buf: *mut c_char,
>      23 | |     end: *mut c_char,
>      24 | |     ptr: *const c_void,
>      25 | | ) -> *mut c_char {
>         | |________________^
>         |
>         = help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#no_mangle_with_rust_abi
>         = note: requested on the command line with `-D clippy::no-mangle-with-rust-abi`
>      help: set an ABI
>         |
>      21 | unsafe extern "C" fn rust_fmt_argument(
>         |        ++++++++++
>      help: or explicitly set the default
>         |
>      21 | unsafe extern "Rust" fn rust_fmt_argument(
>         |        +++++++++++++
>
> Thus enable it.
>
> In rare cases, we may need to use the Rust ABI even with `#[no_mangle]`
> (e.g. one case, before 1.71.0, would have been the `__rust_*`
> functions). In those cases, we would need to `#[allow(...)]` the lint,
> since using `extern "Rust"` explicitly (as the compiler suggests)
> currently gets overwritten by `rustfmt` [3].
>
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/10347 [1]
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/pull/967 [2]
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt/issues/5701 [3]
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> [...]
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@xxxxxxxxx>